What Is The Trinity Challenge?

The Trinity Challenge is a call to action for the best and brightest minds to contribute ideas and innovations, with a chance to win both funding and mentoring from world-renowned organisations.

The Trinity Challenge on Antimicrobial Resistance is calling 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 concentrates on the threat of antimicrobial resistance, specifically antibiotic resistance in bacteria.

Funding will be made 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 will have three areas of focus – innovation, integration and implementation.

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

Three Foundational Principles:

Inclusivity

Our shared vulnerability to health emergencies means resilience is a global necessity – and our solutions need to reflect this scope and potential for scalability.

Collaboration

Actions arising from silo & solo thinking are unlikely to provide the answers we need. The Trinity Challenge understands that cooperation is of paramount importance, to ensure we don’t lose momentum once this pandemic has waned.

The Trinity Challenge is catalysing the collision between public health and data science, enabling Solution Teams to connect and contribute insights that will translate into global public goods.

Innovation

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