ֱ̽ ֱ̽ of Cambridge has joined a coalition of some of the world’s leading businesses and academic and tech institutions to launch ֱ̽Trinity Challenge. This global challenge provides a £10m prize fund for breakthrough solutions to make sure one billion more people are better protected against health emergencies.
ֱ̽ ֱ̽ of Cambridge has joined a coalition of some of the world’s leading businesses and academic and tech institutions to launch ֱ̽Trinity Challenge. This global challenge provides a £10m prize fund for breakthrough solutions to make sure one billion more people are better protected against health emergencies.
COVID-19 has highlighted the power of data in helping us understand and tackle health emergencies, but it has also revealed the challenges we face in getting the right data to the right people at the right time
Stephen J Toope
ֱ̽Trinity Challengesetsa series ofurgentquestionsto harnessthe potential of data and analyticsto learn and share lessons from the great innovations made to combat COVID-19 andto build resilience against future health emergencies.£10m of funding will bemadeavailable to teamsto support and scale their innovationsacross areas including economics, behavioural sciences, andepidemiology.
ֱ̽Challenge has been convened by Dame Sally Davies, Master of Trinity College, Cambridge. Its Founding Members represent a diverse coalition of world leading organisations across the private, public and social sectors. All are united by the common aim of using data and advanced analytics to develop insights and practical actions to contribute to a world better protected from health emergencies.
Launching the Challenge, Dame Sally said: “There will be another COVID-19,and there is anopportunityfor the international communityto learn lessons nowand prepare for the future. ֱ̽Trinity Challenge is a recognition by business, academia and philanthropy of the need for new, breakthrough ideas and approachesto beatthe nextpandemic.”
ֱ̽Challenge has the support of Professor Stephen J Toope, Vice-Chancellor of the ֱ̽ of Cambridge, who said: “COVID-19 has highlighted the power of data in helping us understand and tackle health emergencies, but it has also revealed the challenges we face in getting the right data to the right people at the right time.
“We need to up our collaborative game so that we cross sectors, disciplines and borders to help us tackle – and even prevent – future health emergencies. ֱ̽Trinity Challenge is an exciting opportunity to make this happen.”
Professor Carola-Bibiane Schönlieb and Anna Vignoles, co-chairs of the Cambridge Centre for Data-Driven Discovery, will be providing leadership on behalf of the ֱ̽.
Professor Schönlieb said: “Cambridge is supporting ֱ̽Trinity Challenge not only because of our expertise and ability to contribute to tackling this pandemic but also because of our key role in producing the next generation of scientists who will be needed to tackle this and future public health threats of this kind.”
Professor Vignoles added: “Our ֱ̽ is world leading in many aspects of the science needed to tackle this pandemic. We are also world leading in terms of our data science. ֱ̽Cambridge Centre for Data-Driven Discovery convenes data science expertise from right across Cambridge and is highly interdisciplinary in its focus. We have been working closely with ֱ̽Trinity Challenge team to determine what data we need and how we might use it to address this pandemic.”
ֱ̽Trinity Challenge is calling on global participants to submit impact-ledideas on how tosafeguard our health and economic systems from the threat of global health emergencies.Submissionsthat make the selectionwill besupported with access topeople, data andresources from Founding Members, to maximise the effectiveness of their solutions and leverage theworld-leading expertiseand innovationoftheseinstitutions.
ChallengeTeamswill focus on potential solutions that support and strengthen the global public health ecosystemin arobust and inclusiveway.Solutions will be fielded globallythrough an open and accessiblesubmissionprocess tobring thebest mindsand ideas togetherwith the aim of developing insights that willbenefittheworld in the future.
ֱ̽Founding Members are: , Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, Brunswick Group, ֱ̽ of Cambridge, Discovery Limited, Facebook, Global Virome Project, Google, HKUMed, Imperial College London, Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation, Internews, Legal and General, LSE, McKinsey and Company, Microsoft, Northeastern ֱ̽, Optum, Reckitt Benckiser, Tencent, Zenysis Technology.
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