The Trinity Challenge

The Trinity Challenge

Our mission is to 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. 

The Trinity Challenge is premised on three foundational principles:

Inclusivity

Our shared vulnerability to health emergencies means resilience is a global necessity – and our solutions need to be global too.

Collaboration

No solo action is likely to provide the answers we need. The Trinity Challenge will foster new collaborations across the globe by catalysing the collision between public health and data science, enabling Challenge Teams to connect and contribute insights as global public goods.

Innovation

Data can unlock breakthrough discoveries to inform how we should act to improve outcomes – with the right analytical minds and data sources, we can and must develop new ways of protecting ourselves against health emergencies.