The COVID Tracking Project advisory board helps guide and provide accountability for the initiative. The current members are:
- Trevor Bedford, Associate Member at the Fred Hutch in the Vaccine and Infectious Disease Division and the Computational Biology Program, Affiliate Associate Professor in the Department of Genome Sciences and the Department of Epidemiology at the University of Washington, co-developer of NextStrain.org
- Natalie Dean, PhD, assistant professor of biostatistics at the University of Florida
- Jeff Hammerbacher, co-founder of The COVID Tracking Project, founder Related Sciences
- Tony Iton, MD, JD, MPH, Senior Vice President of Healthy Communities at the California Endowment
- Erin Kissane, co-founder of The COVID Tracking Project, former director of content for Knight-Mozilla OpenNews
- Aresha Martinez-Cardoso, Assistant Professor, Department of Public Health Sciences, University of Chicago
- Robinson Meyer, staff writer at The Atlantic
- Ryan Panchadsaram, Kleiner Perkins, former deputy CTO of the United States
- Eric Topol, Gary & Mary West Endowed Chair of Innovative Medicine, Scripps Research Executive VP
- Gillian White, deputy editor at The Atlantic
- Marta E. Wosińska, PhD, Deputy Director, Policy at the Duke-Margolis Center for Health Policy and Consulting Professor at the Fuqua School of Business