Practicing Corona – Towards a research agenda of health policies

•Corona virus is puting a huge stress on healthcare systems.•In this paper we propose an agenda for research.•Four areas or research are proposed: decision-making structures and practices, mediatisation, organisation of healthcare, and expertise.•Within each theme pertinent questions are highlighted.•Coronavirus is here to stay or some time and health policy research is needed. As Corona virus is putting a huge stress on healthcare systems around the world, analysts of health policy will have to respond with starting up research on the consequences of current policies. In this paper, we propose an agenda for research of health policy from a governance perspective, focussing on the consequences of decision-making structures and practices, the mediatisation of the pandemic, the organisation of healthcare systems and the role of expertise.