Aviva £225k donation funds Covid-19 research projects

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The Pandemic Institute (TPI) has unveiled eight research projects assessing the longer-term impact of the Covid pandemic on UK and global health which have been awarded funding following a £225,000 donation by Aviva.

The insurer said it was aiming to build strong, sustainable, resilient communities that are better prepared for future crisis events on the scale of Covid-19 pandemic.

One of the projects will provide a proof of concept to help forecast winter pressures at the level of individual NHS Hospital Trusts, while another will assess the long-term impacts of the pandemic on accessing health and social care for dementia.

The full list of research projects that will be supported by the funding is:

Professor Tom Solomon CBE, director of The Pandemic Institute, said: “We are very proud to announce these eight research projects into differing strands of Covid-19, which have been made possible by Aviva’s generous grant.

“This will help us take further steps forward in continuing to tackle Covid-19 and also to be better prepared for the future.

“The work we do from Liverpool has national and international impact and being able to further expand our research through these eight submissions will help keep us at the fore of the challenges around and solutions to Covid-19 and how best to recover from a pandemic.”

David Schofield, group sustainability director at Aviva, added: “Part of Aviva’s sustainability ambition is to make 10 million people more resilient by 2025, as part of this we’re committed to help build health and wellbeing resilience by investing in the big challenges our customers and communities face.

“Funding research into how we can build stronger communities is so important. We are delighted to be able support The Pandemic Institute and look forward to the outcomes of this work.”

 

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