The Trinity Challenge on Antimicrobial Resistance

What is the Trinity Challenge on Antimicrobial Resistance?

The Trinity Challenge on Antimicrobial Resistance was a call for data-driven solutions that will help tackle the global threat of antimicrobial resistance.

Following the success of the first Trinity Challenge, which explored how data and analytics could be used to predict, detect, and respond to pandemics, the second Trinity Challenge focused on the threat of antimicrobial resistance, specifically antibiotic resistance in bacteria.

Funding was available to support the multidisciplinary teams that demonstrate the greatest potential to reduce the impact of antibiotic resistance in bacteria by harnessing the power of data from communities in low- and middle-income communities.

The challenge had three areas of focus:

Innovation

Developing new capabilities and tools for collecting and using data from community settings, relating to antibiotic-resistance. Key datasets would look at prevalence, consumption, access, quality of antibiotics, and use behaviour

Integration

Finding ways to optimise the use of citizen-related and other data by combining it with new and existing datasets and data sources

Implementation

Using data from low- and middle-income communities to provide evidence and inform action and policy against antibiotic resistance at a local, national and regional level

Winners

Grand Prize (£1 million)

Farm2Vet: Combatting AMR on the Farm Frontier

Encouraging responsible antibiotic use in food-producing animals by offering subsistence farmers instant, easy, low-cost access to trusted veterinary services for disease diagnosis and treatment advice via the platform. Farm2Vet acts as an effective surveillance platform by collecting data directly from small farmers and veterinary service suppliers.

Joint Second Prize (£600,000 each)

AMRSense: Empowering Communities with a Proactive One Health Ecosystem

AMRSense is a socio-technological innovation to build a network of community health workers in two Indian states and empower these workers with AI-assisted data recording. The data will be integrated with antibiotic sales, consumption and surveillance trends which will allow for predictive analytics that can help tackle AMR.

Joint Second Prize (£600,000 each)

OASIS: OneHealth Antimicrobial Stewardship for Informal Health Systems

OASIS transforms rural healthcare by enabling informal rural healthcare providers for humans and animals to monitor personal antimicrobial provision data for infections treated, via the Antibiotic Bandhu (friend of antibiotics) app. By integrating this with regional AMR data, the app will empower providers to adopt responsible antimicrobial practices.

Third Prize

AMRoots: Grassroots AMR in small scale farming communities

AMRoots will generate new data towards holistic understanding of the development and transmission of antimicrobial resistance in livestock farming communities that are critical for the future food security of sub-Saharan Africa, while integrating scalable and community-led approaches to mitigating AMR in these regions.

The Trinity Challenge Judges

An independent panel of specialist judges representing a diverse set of expertise is responsible for reviewing applications and selecting Finalists and Winners.