Tackling emerging infections and pandemic threats

From predicting to recovering, we provide a comprehensive response to emerging infections and pandemic threats

The Pandemic Institute (TPI) was founded in 2021 with a clear purpose: to tackle emerging infections and ensure that the world will never again be as unprepared for a pandemic as it was in December 2019. Based in Liverpool, we are a unique collaboration of academic, civic and healthcare organisations, with strong industrial partnerships. We were founded with an initial philanthropic donation of £10M awarded to the region thanks to the life-saving research and innovation that occurred here during the COVID-19 pandemic.

The Pandemic Institute builds on Liverpool’s work since 2014 leading the UK’s National Institute for Health and Care Research (NIHR) Health Protection Research Unit in Emerging and Zoonotic Infections, which was at the forefront of the UK research response to Ebola, Zika and Covid-19.

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Founding partners

  • The University of Liverpool is a public research university based in the city of Liverpool, England. Founded as a college in 1881, it gained its Royal Charter in 1903 with the ability to award degrees and is also known to be one of the six original ‘red brick’ civic universities.

  • Liverpool John Moores University is a public research university in the city of Liverpool, England. The university can trace its origins to the Liverpool Mechanics’ School of Arts, established in 1823.

  • The Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine was established in 1898 and it was the first institution in the world dedicated to research and teaching in tropical medicine.

  • NHS University Hospitals of Liverpool Group (UHLG) was born from a shared aim to improve the care provided to communities. They operate from four hospital sites: Aintree University Hospital, Broadgreen Hospital, Liverpool Women’s Hospital and the Royal Liverpool University Hospital, alongside a host of community services.

  • Liverpool City Council is the governing body for the city of Liverpool in Merseyside, England.

  • The Liverpool City Region is a combined authority region of England, centred on Liverpool, incorporating the local authority district boroughs of Halton, Knowsley, Sefton, St Helens, and Wirral.

  • KQ Liverpool is a 450-acre innovation district at the heart of Liverpool City Centre which is home to some of the world’s most influential names in science, health, technology, education, music and the creative and performing arts.

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