The COVID-19 crisis has demonstrated how a pandemic can quickly evolve from a medical and infectious disease emergency to a broad-scale economic and public health disaster. Population scientists (including demographers, economists, sociologists and statisticians) bring scientific rigor to the collection, analysis, and dissemination of data regarding population dynamics and thus have much to contribute toward battling the pandemic and accelerating our recovery.See the updated Fact Sheet.#GPAC2020#FactSheet#COVID-19