Global Health Challenge Case Competition

The lead sponsor for the Global Health Challenge Case Competition is Futures Group.

For all current and up to date information, please visit the official case competition website at: triangleghcc.wordpress.com.

Bringing together tomorrow's leaders in global health with today's, through a week long inter-institutional case competition hosted by the universities of NC State, UNC, and Duke, and the Triangle Global Health Consortium.

About the NC GHCC

The North Carolina Global Health Case Competition provides a venue for North Carolina’s university students from multiple disciplines to develop innovative solutions for a specified global health problem. The case competition allows teams of four to six students to work through a real-life case scenario and develop succinct, strategic recommendations for improving a global health issue. Teams have 5 days to work on the case study to eventually compete against other universities by presenting their recommendations to a distinguished panel of judges. All team members will be recognized for their participation, and a monetary prize will be awarded to first and second place proposals.

Why participate?

The Global Health Case Competition is a great way to initiate dialogue and foster interdisciplinary approaches to global health on campus, as well as raise awareness among students, faculty, and staff. This competition also provides an opportunity to meet other students and global health professionals in North Carolina, while exploring some of the ethical, cultural, and economic issues surrounding global health policy logistics, development, and implementation.

Who can participate?

All North Carolina-based university students, both graduate and undergraduate, from all disciplines are invited to enter the competition. We also welcome non-NC-based university teams, if space allows. Registration fee for non-host university teams will be $200, payable by the university administration on behalf of the students.

Date

This year’s case competition is slated to be judged on Saturday, April 9^th, 2011 and will occur in conjunction with the TGHC’s annual Global Health Career Fair: A Day of Networking and Professional Development event.

Deadline

The deadline for registration is March 28th, 2011.

Team Criteria

Teams should consist of 4-6 students – graduate or undergraduate students are eligible
Must be interdisciplinary – i.e. consist of members from at least 3 different academic schools and/or programs.
Must register as a complete team – list all names of team members plus representing schools

Case Competition Week Schedule

Case Release and kickoff event - Tuesday 5th April
Team work time with access to mentors – Wednesday April 6th to Friday April 8th
Team work day with snack etc provided – Friday April 8th
Case presentations due - Saturday April 9th 8:00am with a hard deadline at 8:30am

Case Competition Judging Day Schedule

8:00 – 8:45am: Teams turn in slide decks
8:00 – 9:00am: Light Breakfast
9:00am: GHCC Welcome
9:15 – 11:45am: First round of presentations
12:00 – 12:30pm: Career Fair welcome address and agency presentations
12:30 – 1:30pm: Lunch break and networking
1:30 – 1:45pm: Finalists announced
2:30 – 3:30pm: Final round presentation by finalists
3:30 – 4:00pm: Presentation of Awards

Recognition

The Global Health Case Competition is developed by a multidisciplinary student planning committee from Universities that are members of the Triangle Global Health Consortium. Additionally, the April 9th event is supported by financial contributions shared between the host-universities and the TGHC.