About
The Trinity Challenge
The Trinity Challenge is a charity supporting the creation of data-driven and analytics solutions to help protect the world against global health threats.
Who we are
The Trinity Challenge (TTC) is a charity supporting the creation of data-driven solutions to help protect against global health threats.
Our Vision for Change
We believe data and analytics hold the key to building effective, affordable, and scalable solutions to current and future pandemics and health emergencies.
Our Mission
We support data-driven solutions that will help the world prepare for and respond to global outbreaks and health emergencies. We’re committed to working with governments, individuals and organisations across the world, to help improve our resilience against current and future threats to global health.
The Trinity Challenge was launched in response to the Covid-19 pandemic, which highlighted a global need to be better prepared to tackle healthcare emergencies. The initial Challenge asked teams to deliver data-driven solutions to predict, respond to and recover from pandemics. The inaugural Challenge in 2021 received applications from 340 teams across 60 countries and distributed a prize fund of £5.7 million across eight winning initiatives.
Following the success of the first Trinity Challenge, the second Challenge will issue a call to the world’s best and brightest minds for data-driven solutions that will protect the power of antibiotics. Funding will be made available to support the multidisciplinary teams that demonstrate the greatest potential to reduce the impact of antibiotic-resistant infections by harnessing the power of data from communities in low- and middle-income communities.
Our Convenor
Dame Sally Davies
Dame Sally Davies is the 40th Master of Trinity College, Cambridge University and the first woman to hold the post. She was appointed as the UK Government’s Special Envoy on AMR in 2019.
Dame Sally was the Chief Medical Officer for England and Senior Medical Advisor to the UK Government from 2011-2019. She is a leading figure in global health, having served as a member of the World Health Organisation (WHO) Executive Board 2014-2016, and as co-convener of the United Nations Inter-Agency Co-ordination Group (IACG) on Antimicrobial Resistance (AMR), reporting in 2019. In November 2020, Dame Sally was announced as a member of the new UN Global Leaders Group on AMR, serving alongside Heads of State, Ministers, and prominent figures from around the world to advocate for action on AMR.
Fuller details can be found in the UK Special Envoy on Antimicrobial Resistance page.
Three Foundational Principles:
Inclusivity
Our shared vulnerability to health emergencies means resilience is a global necessity – and our solutions need to reflect this scope and potential for scalability.
Collaboration
Actions arising from silo & solo thinking are unlikely to provide the answers we need. The Trinity Challenge understands that cooperation is of paramount importance, to ensure we don’t lose momentum once this pandemic has waned.
The Trinity Challenge is catalysing the collision between public health and data science, enabling Solution Teams to connect and contribute insights that will translate into global public goods.
Innovation
Data can unlock breakthrough discoveries to inform how we should act in order to improve outcomes. With the right analytical minds and data sources, we can and must develop new ways of protecting ourselves against health emergencies.
