A group of Vietnamese scientists won the £1 million The Trinity Challenge, an organization that seeks innovative solutions to the world’s biggest health challenges.
The project surpassed 285 impressive solutions from competing teams from 57 countries to win the top prize (Grand Prize) at The Trinity Challenge 2024.
The authors of the award are Dr. Phi Thi Linh Giang (lecturer at the Institute of Business Management) and Dr. Doan Dang Khoa (lecturer at the Institute of Computer Science, VinUni University) and Professor Nguyen Thanh Huong (lecturer at the University of Illinois). Urbana Champaign – USA). The research team developed the Farm2Vet virtual veterinary platform with the expectation of completely solving the problem of antibiotic resistance in veterinary medicine. This is considered one of the 10 biggest threats to global health.
The Trinity Challenge honored Vietnam’s Farm2Vet project team with a prize worth 1 million pounds on June 6. Image: BTC
According to the research team, the overuse of antibiotics in livestock farming to prevent short-term diseases causes farmers to face long-term risks of disease and poverty due to antibiotic resistance. Accordingly, Farm2Vet encourages farmers to use antibiotics responsibly in livestock production by providing them with instant, easy and low-cost access to reliable veterinary knowledge and services. The database from Farm2Vet helps farmers diagnose diseases and receive treatment advice through the platform.
In addition, knowledge from Farm2Vet also helps provide early warnings to policymakers to prevent outbreaks and antibiotic resistance hotspots, as well as design biosecurity policies for livestock. Farm2Vet can also mark and connect clusters of safe production farms with purchasing businesses and consumers to meet global demand for quality, organic food.
Dr. Phi Thi Linh Giang, project leader, said that Farm2Vet is considered the first step for many similar projects, bringing long-term benefits to hundreds of millions of farmers in low- and middle-income countries. Around the world. The project aims to help protect the health of billions of consumers by promoting clean and safe food coming from farms.
Professor Dame Sally Davies, Chairwoman of The Trinity Challenge, UK Special Envoy on Antibiotic Resistance, said this is a project that demonstrates the vision and efforts of the research team. The group’s plan is to create a new platform to help farmers access diagnostics and treatment advice for their animals. She said the team was focusing on the food chain, but created a solution that could generate data to fill gaps in people’s knowledge and inform policymakers.
The Trinity Challenge is an organization that seeks innovative solutions to the world’s biggest health challenges. This year, Trinity combined with MIT Solve of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (USA) to organize a competition with the challenge “Antibiotic resistance”. The program aims to call on global scientists to propose solutions to minimize the impact of antibiotic resistance in bacteria through the power of big data from low- and middle-income communities.