Cambridge helps launch £10m Trinity Challenge to protect the world against future pandemics

cjb250 — Mon, 14 Sep 2020 07:00:11 +0000

̽��ֱ��Trinity Challenge sets a series of urgent questions to harness the potential of data and analytics to learn and share lessons from the great innovations made to combat COVID-19 and to build resilience against future health emergencies. £10m of funding will be made available to teams to support and scale their innovations across areas including economics, behavioural sciences, and epidemiology.

̽��ֱ��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 an opportunity for the international community to learn lessons now and prepare for the future. ̽��ֱ��Trinity Challenge is a recognition by business, academia and philanthropy of the need for new, breakthrough ideas and approaches to beat the next pandemic.”

̽��ֱ��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-led ideas on how to safeguard our health and economic systems from the threat of global health emergencies. Submissions that make the selection will be supported with access to people, data and resources from Founding Members, to maximise the effectiveness of their solutions and leverage the world-leading expertise and innovation of these institutions.

Challenge Teams will focus on potential solutions that support and strengthen the global public health ecosystem in a robust and inclusive way. Solutions will be fielded globally through an open and accessible submission process to bring the best minds and ideas together with the aim of developing insights that will benefit the world in the future.

̽��ֱ��Founding Members are: Aviva, 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.

Full details are available on ̽��ֱ��Trinity Challenge website.

̽��ֱ�� ̽��ֱ�� 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

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Dame Sally Davies and ̽��ֱ��Trinity Challenge

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Cambridge establishes new centre for data science

Anonymous — Tue, 12 Mar 2019 00:00:35 +0000

̽��ֱ��Cambridge Centre for Data-Driven Discovery (C2D3) will harness the knowledge of academics in data science, ethics, and from a wide range of disciplines, to research all aspects of this complex and expanding area.

̽��ֱ��Centre will be truly interdisciplinary, allowing experts in technical, mathematical and topic knowledge to work together on tackling the methodological and practical challenges presented by handling big data.

̽��ֱ��Centre is to be funded by a series of collaborations with partners in business and industry which have an interest in using big data for the benefit of their customers and their organisations.

̽��ֱ��first founding partner is to be Aviva, Britain’s biggest insurer. Aviva will sponsor a research fellowship and support PhD students to help investigate some of the ethical, political and operational questions surrounding the use of big data.

̽��ֱ��relationship will combine world-class research with frontline practice. It will help Aviva develop new ethical approaches to advising customers through evidence-based science. It will enable ̽��ֱ�� researchers to develop methods and tools to address real-world problems and to influence the wider debate about how organisations address the difficult methodological, practical and ethical challenges of big data.

Professor Anna Vignoles, co-chair of the Cambridge Centre for Data-Driven Discovery, said: “ ̽��ֱ�� ̽��ֱ�� is constantly looking for innovative ways for our research to make a difference to the wider world, as well as opportunities for our students to gain valuable experience of industry.

“Working with Aviva will give our researchers the opportunity to solve some ‘real world’ challenges, ranging from how to securely, ethically, efficiently and effectively store and use their customers’ data and to identify what health interventions are most likely to help their customers live a longer and healthier life.”

Owen Morris, Managing Director of Aviva Quantum, Aviva’s Global Data Science Practice, said:

“Aviva is on a mission to create a world-class data science capability – and this ground-breaking partnership with the ̽��ֱ�� of Cambridge will equip us with unparalleled access to knowledge and research in this area.”

Aviva is expected to be the first of ten organisations in C2D3’s Industry Club, which will underwrite the cost of research and provide companies with:

access to existing research
the opportunity to commission new areas of research
practical guidance, tools and techniques to use data in the commercial world.

Other partners will be announced in due course.

̽��ֱ�� ̽��ֱ�� of Cambridge is establishing a new research centre bringing together expertise from across academic departments and industry to drive research into the analysis, understanding and use of big data.

̽��ֱ�� ̽��ֱ�� is constantly looking for innovative ways for our research to make a difference to the wider world

Anna Vignoles

Dennis van Zuijlekom

Bull Dutch National Supercomputer

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