With your support The Pandemic Institute will:
Create a Pandemic Intelligence Platform
This will help us better understand the impact of non-pharmaceutical interventions such as social distancing, school closures, masks and lockdowns, to inform the response and recovery. This will combine existing public health, medical, social and administrative information, to build on the lessons of COVID-19. Our aim is to establish a team skilled in informatics and data science who create a blueprint for future prevention and control in the UK and worldwide, removing the delay between data and action and allowing societies to respond and recover faster.
Investigate supply chain breakdowns
Work with businesses to investigate supply chain breakdowns caused by pandemic control measures, so that we can better support both immediate security and longer-term economic recovery.
Prevent the spread of misinformation through a Pandemic Trust and Information Centre
This will bring together communities, local government, cybersecurity, public health, and digital and social media experts to research public technologies that can identify and counter science misinformation, helping tackle the “anti-science” agenda.
Breakthrough Fund
Across each of our priority areas, we seek to fund bold, early-stage research that is often hard to fund through conventional means. Liverpool investigators have a strong track record of innovation, whether it is novel approaches to diagnosing infections in the field, or using artificial intelligence to link and analyse routine public health data. Our Breakthrough Fund will support researchers to pursue high-risk, high-reward ideas that, if successful, could help to revolutionise the infection research landscape.
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