The WID Grand Challenge
What is a Grand Challenge?
Grand challenges represent bold, seemingly unattainable goals that inspire multi-sector collaboration, push the boundaries of innovation, and address critical societal issues. Historically, these have included groundbreaking endeavors like the first trans-Atlantic flight in 1927, the Green Revolution, and rapid development of a vaccine to combat the COVID pandemic. These endeavors unite communities around a common purpose and often generate collaboration among sectors. Finally, grand challenges can demonstrate the significant role of academic research in addressing society’s most pressing issues, an important consideration in the current research climate.Your Content Goes Here
Healthy to 100 Earth
The top goals of Healthy to 100—Earth are to:
- Optimize the distribution and storage of energy and
- Improve plant and soil health to increase carbon sequestration.
Healthy to 100 People
The top goals of Healthy to 100—People are to:
- Combine AI and “Big Data” (-omics, health assessments, and intervention outcomes) to generate new ways to define, assess, and improve human health;
- Use new computational methods to understand how life experiences are encoded in the human genome;
- Unite -omics with mechanistic studies to understand the role of the human microbiome in depression and well-being;
- Identify protective characteristics of the human virome that may help prevent future pandemics.
What is a Grand Challenge?
Grand challenges represent bold, seemingly unattainable goals that inspire multi-sector collaboration, push the boundaries of innovation, and address critical societal issues. Historically, these have included groundbreaking endeavors like the first trans-Atlantic flight in 1927, the Green Revolution, and rapid development of a vaccine to combat the COVID pandemic. These endeavors unite communities around a common purpose and often generate collaboration among sectors. Finally, grand challenges can demonstrate the significant role of academic research in addressing society’s most pressing issues, an important consideration in the current research climate.
Healthy to 100 Earth
The top goals of Healthy to 100—Earth are to:
- Optimize the distribution and storage of energy and
- Improve plant and soil health to increase carbon sequestration.
Healthy to 100 People
The top goals of Healthy to 100—People are to:
- Combine AI and “Big Data” (-omics, health assessments, and intervention outcomes) to generate new ways to define, assess, and improve human health;
- Use new computational methods to understand how life experiences are encoded in the human genome;
- Unite -omics with mechanistic studies to understand the role of the human microbiome in depression and well-being;
- Identify protective characteristics of the human virome that may help prevent future pandemics.
