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[searchandfilter id="575"]18 November 2024
The Trinity Challenge Announces Pioneering AMR Projects led by young people from Central Asia, South America, South Asia and Sub-Saharan Africa
The Trinity Challenge announces today the winners of its antimicrobial resistance (AMR) Youth Seed Funding Competition, a global initiative that empowers youth-led organisations and youth leaders to address one of the world's most pressing public health challenges, the antibiotic emergency.
10 October 2024
Reflections on UNGA 2024
It was a privilege to represent TTC at side meetings during the week marking the second High-Level Meeting on Antimicrobial Resistance (AMR). Our Chair, Dame Sally Davies, was central to many of the panel discussions in her capacity as the UK Special Envoy on AMR. The side meetings afforded an opportunity to meet with our […]
26 September 2024
Preserve to Protect – a new awareness drive on antimicrobial resistance from the Union for International Cancer Control (UICC)
The Trinity Challenge has partnered with the Union for International Cancer Control (UICC) to raise awareness about antimicrobial resistance and particularly the serious threat it poses to people living with cancer. There has been substantial progress in cancer care in the past decades, with key advances in surgery, radiotherapy, and medicines including immunotherapies. But the increasing inability of medicines to address certain infections can undermine efforts to treat cancer patients.
25 September 2024
Dame Sally Davies: The world is facing an antibiotic emergency – a data-led plan of action is needed now
[Originally published in The Guardian] Global leaders are meeting to address the threat posed by antimicrobial resistance – millions will die unless solutions are found. Over the next 25 years, someone will die every three minutes from common, preventable and formerly treatable health conditions, simply because the antibiotics we use to treat them will have […]
10 September 2024
Strengthening decision making during public health emergencies
The World Health Organization has declared eight Public Health Emergencies of International Concern in the last 15 years, beginning with the 2009-2010 H1N1 flu pandemic and culminating in the mpox outbreak that remains active in Central and East Africa, now spilling into neighbouring regions. Each new outbreak raises similar questions around how we can be better prepared to ward off the next one – particularly given the massive advances in technology and data use that we see all around us.
27 August 2024
BBC News: When vets are scarce what can farmers do?
[Originally published on BBC News online] Quang Doan Hong is a busy person. The accountant, who lives with his family in Hưng Yên, Vietnam, also owns a farm with about 600 pigs. He’s had to learn quickly about pig health, from which vaccines are effective to when to use antibiotics. “When the weather changes, I give the pigs antibiotics,” Mr Hong says. In his experience, rapid changes between sunny and rainy weather make it necessary to administer antibiotics for respiratory and diarrhoeal diseases.
16 August 2024
The Novo Nordisk Foundation partners with the Trinity Challenge to support innovator’s winning solutions on antibiotic resistance
The Trinity Challenge, a charity supporting the creation of data-driven solutions to help protect against global health threats, has welcomed a generous contribution from the Novo Nordisk Foundation, designed to allow for the ongoing support of the teams who will deliver innovative projects to help mitigate antibiotic resistance in low- and middle-income countries.
16 August 2024
The Trinity Challenge partners with Stanford University in first-of-its-kind global Deliberative Poll on antibiotic resistance
The Trinity Challenge and the Deliberative Democracy Lab at Stanford University today announce ambitious plans for a new Deliberative Polling initiative to uncover public perspectives on antibiotic resistance across the world.
07 August 2024
The Pfizer Foundation* contributes to antibiotic resistance innovation prize
The prize fund for the Trinity Challenge on Antimicrobial Resistance was supported by the Pfizer Foundation. The ability of the Trinity Challenge to identify and support innovative solutions to global health threats depends on donations such as this one.
09 July 2024
Empowering Global Youth: the Trinity Challenge Youth Summit on Antimicrobial Resistance
A global movement in response to a growing health threat must include the voices of young people and invest in their leadership for the future. In a step towards building the youth voice on antimicrobial resistance (AMR), the Trinity Challenge Youth Summit recently convened young leaders to share their insights, discuss key topics and help co-design a global campaign.
06 June 2024
New technologies to help farmers and health workers combat AMR are awarded £2.7 million
The Trinity Challenge today announced four winning teams of its second competition aimed at tackling the growing threat of antimicrobial resistance (AMR). The projects receiving funds are all focused on addressing significant data gaps in communities and lower-income countries that are disproportionately affected by antibiotic-resistant infections. The winner of the grand prize of £1 million […]
13 May 2024
The Trinity Challenge on Antimicrobial Resistance – eight finalists selected for up to £1 million prize
The Trinity Challenge today announced eight finalists in its competition aimed at tackling the growing threat of antimicrobial resistance. The projects in Fiji, India, Kenya, South Africa, Tanzania, and Vietnam are advancing with data-driven solutions to mitigate the impact of antibiotic-resistant infections, with a focus on low- and middle-income countries.
05 May 2024
The Trinity Challenge Welcomes the Institute of Philanthropy’s Generous Contribution in Mitigating Antibiotic Resistance
The Trinity Challenge (a charity supporting the creation of data-driven solutions to help protect against global health threats), has been generously awarded HKD 12 million (£1.23 million) funding from the Institute of Philanthropy empowered by The Hong Kong Jockey Club Charities Trust.
05 April 2024
Judging panel announced for global innovation prize on antibiotic resistance
Today the Trinity Challenge has announced the full panel of judges who will be awarding prizes as part of the Trinity Challenge on Antimicrobial Resistance. The new innovation competition with a grand prize of up to £1 million was launched in November 2023 has received 285 submissions from 57 countries.
22 February 2024
Prof. Dame Sally Davies in discussion with Dr. Cary Adams (Let’s Talk Cancer)
"I think antibiotics and other antimicrobials, antifungals are terrifically important to cancer patients. After all, we know that as many as 1 in 5 cancer patients undergoing treatment are hospitalised with an infection...
16 February 2024
Ineos Oxford Institute for antimicrobial research (IOI) partner with the Trinity Challenge to increase antibiotic resistance advocacy
The Ineos Oxford Institute (IOI) has generously contributed to the Trinity Challenge’s ongoing efforts to support advocacy and campaign development on antibiotic resistance...
15 February 2024
Prof. Marc Mendelson in discussion with Maggie Fox (One World One Health)
“While innovative and effective ideas to help solve major global health problems are hard to come by, finding and attaining funding to put them into action can be even more difficult. The research grant review process takes time and can be bogged down in red tape...
12 February 2024
Patrick J McGovern Foundation contributes $500,000 to boost the Trinity Challenge on Antimicrobial Resistance
The Trinity Challenge has been awarded $500,000 from the Patrick J. McGovern Foundation to boost the recently launched Trinity Challenge on Antimicrobial Resistance, an innovation prize to find solutions to tackle antibiotic resistance in low- and middle-income countries.
22 November 2023
£1 million challenge prize launched to tackle antimicrobial resistance
Today the Trinity Challenge launches a new innovation competition with a grand prize of up to £1 million to tackle antimicrobial resistance (AMR). Kicking-off during World AMR Awareness Week, the Challenge calls for data-driven solutions to help mitigate the global crisis of antimicrobial resistance.
30 May 2023
Eighteen months on: Where are they now?
Eighteen months since the awards were announced and the prizes distributed, where are they now?
06 April 2022
Relief, regret or resent? ‘Freedom’ protests suggest the latter
Perceptions of the importance & effectiveness of the vaccines declined between June 2020 & January 2022.
31 January 2022
The Innovators Behind the Innovations
They may not have yelled 'Eureka!', but we did when we heard about their solutions. Find out what makes them award winners.
25 January 2022
Over 11 billion doses of vaccine have been produced worldwide
But in economically disadvantaged countries, many frontline health workers have still not been vaccinated.
17 December 2021
The government of Victoria’s strategy for reopening has been guided by the University of Melbourne’s modelling
The use of data-driven methods and the adoption of computational models allows for science-based policy decisions.
24 November 2021
The price of our failure to address the silent pandemic
We need to take AMR seriously and act quickly. By 2050, projections indicate that we could be looking at 10 million extra deaths a year worldwide, with lost global economic output of $100 trillion.
16 November 2021
We have the potential to prevent pandemics
"In my experience, no community is too hard to reach, no country is too poor to innovate, and curiosity outshines fear across the globe," says Dr Mark Smolinski, writing in the Stanford Social Innovation Review.
01 October 2021
Prof Carola-Bibiane Schönlieb discusses how algorithms can save lives
Unused, discarded data points from billions of routine blood tests are a potential treasure trove for disease detection.
27 September 2021
Data out is only as good as data in, writes Dame Sally Davies
The pandemic highlighted weaknesses in global health systems but has spurred a powerful response. A Special Report includes: how climate change risks backsliding on gains against malaria; long COVID perplexes researchers; new HIV treatments in the pipeline; & why the fight against antimicrobial resistance is making slow progress.
22 September 2021
Encaenia Ceremony at the University of Oxford recognises distinguished honorands
Dame Sally Davies, together with Hillary Rodham Clinton, Professor Linda Colley, Professor Anna Deavere Smith, and 3 others, were recognised for their contributions to their respective fields.
16 September 2021
The Rockefeller Foundation & Wellcome fund new data.org initiative
data.org launches Epiverse, to lead global, distributed pandemic analysis with a privacy-preserving approach.