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20 March 2025

Health leaders meet in Nigeria to collaborate on access to effective antibiotics

The Trinity Challenge delivered a workshop today in Abuja to explore community access to effective antibiotics in partnership with the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control and Prevention and Jhpiego. The workshop convened healthcare leaders, researchers, tech specialists, and other experts to explore two barriers to access to effective antibiotics: stock control and substandard or falsified oral antibiotics. These issues impact both human and animal health.

‘It can transform our understanding of AMR’: Working with India’s rural clinics to control drug resistance

Drug-resistant infections are linked to over a million deaths a year in India. A health crisis compounded by the country’s healthcare inequalities. Dr Gautham and her team are working with rural healthcare providers to better understand the challenges of tackling AMR in these settings – and co-develop innovative solutions.

Access to Effective Antibiotics: Insights from our Bengaluru workshop

Antibiotics are a cornerstone of modern medicine, yet millions of people worldwide still struggle to access these treatments. Ensuring that communities have access to quality antibiotics is important—not just to treat infections but also to prevent the growing threat of antimicrobial resistance (AMR).

Judges announced for global innovation prize on community access to antibiotics

Today the Trinity Challenge has announced the panel of judges who will be awarding prizes as part of the Trinity Challenge on Community Access to Effective Antibiotics, a new innovation competition with a grand prize of up to £1 million which was launched last month.

Innovators gather in Bengaluru to find ways to ensure access to effective antibiotics

The Trinity Challenge and the One Health Trust delivered a workshop today in Bengaluru to explore community access to effective antibiotics. The workshop convened healthcare leaders, researchers, tech specialists, and other experts to explore two barriers to access to effective antibiotics: stock control and substandard or falsified oral antibiotics. These issues impact both human and animal health.

Trinity Challenge launches £1 million competition to improve community access to effective antibiotics

The Trinity Challenge today launched a new innovation competition as part of its continued work on antimicrobial resistance (AMR). The new Challenge, which focuses on improving community access to effective oral antibiotics in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs), is a follow-up to last year’s Challenge, which awarded £2.7 million to four winners.

MSD supports the Trinity Challenge’s advocacy and engagement 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 MSD to support advocacy activities from the winners of Trinity Challenge on Antimicrobial Resistance

Amazon Web Services collaborate with the Trinity Challenge to enhance winning teams’ solutions to antibiotic resistance

Amazon Web Services (AWS) have generously provided the winners of the Trinity Challenge on Antimicrobial Resistance with $750,000 of AWS Social Impact Credits as part of their Health Equity Initiative, a $60 million, three-year commitment, supporting organisations that are developing solutions to advance health equity.

Interconnected – The Silent Pandemic

As the planet warms, it’s not just the environment that’s changing—our health is at risk in ways we never expected. In episode two of Interconnected, we uncover the alarming connections between climate change, infectious diseases, and antimicrobial resistance (AMR). From the migration of resistant bacteria to the emergence of new outbreaks in unexpected places, the ripple effects of climate on health are vast and urgent.

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.

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 […]

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.

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 […]

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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 […]

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.

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.

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.

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...

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...

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...

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.

£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.

Eighteen months on: Where are they now?

Eighteen months since the awards were announced and the prizes distributed, where are they now?

Relief, regret or resent? ‘Freedom’ protests suggest the latter

Perceptions of the importance & effectiveness of the vaccines declined between June 2020 & 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.

Over 11 billion doses of vaccine have been produced worldwide

But in economically disadvantaged countries, many frontline health workers have still not been vaccinated.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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