THE TRINITY CHALLENGE Our Journey Continues

THE 2021 INAUGURAL TRINITY CHALLENGE EMBARKED ON A JOURNEY TO PROTECT THE WORLD AGAINST HEALTH EMERGENCIES, USING DATA-DRIVEN RESEARCH AND ANALYTICS; AND WHAT A SUCCESS IT WAS!

Over 340 multidisciplinary teams applied from 61 countries, with 8 winners1 who were awarded a total of £5.7 million. Our grand prize winner, Participatory One Health Disease Detection (PODD) from Thailand, received £1.3 million from the prize fund and have trained over 34,000 farmers in Thailand to protect their livelihoods from outbreaks of infection in livestock, and to reduce the likelihood of pathogens spilling over to humans. We are grateful to the alumni community for their support of the inaugural Trinity Challenge.

With thanks to the Wellcome Trust, we turn the focus of The Trinity Challenge onto the antimicrobial resistance (AMR) pandemic, a quintessential One Health problem, threatening health, food, and environmental security, and a potentially potent, global, political and social destabiliser. A systematic analysis of the global burden of bacterial AMR2 in 2019 concluded that almost 5 million deaths could have been prevented, had patients not had an AMR infection, and that 1.27 million of those lives were lost as a direct result of resistance to antimicrobials. Moreover, the loss of working antimicrobials increases your risk from common everyday infections, surgery, and cancer care. Similarly, the health of food production and companion animals is compromised by AMR.

The Trinity Challenge on AMR is led by Trinity College’s Master, Dame Sally Davies, in her role as the UK Government’s Special Envoy for Antimicrobial

Resistance, with Professor Marc Mendelson and Louise Gough, and a growing team of expertise. We aim to raise a prize fund of over £5 million and are again partnering with a coalition3 of major companies and academic groups with a breadth of expertise to support applicants to realise their visions.

Please contact coo@thetrinitychallenge.org for further information about how you could get involved.

1. thetrinitychallenge.org/awards/winners

2. pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/35065702/

3. thetrinitychallenge.org/about-us/our-members/