$12.8 Million Trinity Challenge Launched to Beat Future Pandemics
Global business and academic leaders have launched a $12.8 million challenge to protect the world from future pandemics.
The Trinity Challenge will provide access to $12.8 million of funding for innovations that could safeguard the health and economic systems from the threat of global health emergencies.
It was convened by Dame Sally Davies, the former Chief Medical Officer for the United Kingdom and now the Master of Trinity College, Cambridge.
“The Trinity Challenge is about using data and analytics, so we’re better prepared next time. We’re particularly interested in 3 areas threats, response and recovery.”
Dame Sally Davies says it’s only a question of time until the next pandemic.
“Governments and public health agencies are faced with the here and now, which is very complex. We’re learning all the time, every day a new study, every day, a new insight. But what we really need to do alongside that and they don’t seem to have the space is think, what do we do need to learn now? What do we need to put in place so that we’re better prepared next time? There will be a next time. If you look at this century, we’ve had some nasty outbreak or pandemic every 5 years.”
The Trinity Challenge has 22 founding members from private, public and social sectors. These include Tencent, Google, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, University of Cambridge and Discovery Limited.
“As we move forward, some of the learning will feed back into Covid response. But this is very forward-looking about building a coalition that’s working together.”
Dame Sally Davies says she’s really interested in sewage as way to signal there might be a threat.
“What if we had some way of knowing that there was a signal of a threat? I’d prefer to have nine signals that turned out not to be important and find the one that was. And so it may well be the way forward.”
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