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.