Come cheer on UVA student teams from across The University as they tackle the issues of totally drug resistant tuberculosis and urban poverty in the Mumbai slum of Dharavi as part of the first ever

UVA Global Health Case Competition

Saturday, February 23rd

12:30PM - 6:00PM

Newcomb Hall

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Questions?  Email Colleen Laurence at cel2j@virginia.edu

The UVa Global Health Case Competition fosters a unique opportunity for graduate and undergraduate students from multiple schools and disciplines to promote awareness of and develop innovative solutions for current, critical global health issues. Top prize for the UVa case conference competition team is $1200. The Center for Global Health will additionally be supporting a team for the Emory competition where a top prize of $6000 is awarded.

The case this year asks students to tackle the issues of totally drug resistant tuberculosis and urban poverty in the Mumbai slum of Dharavi. To successfully address the case, all manner of issues must be considered and skills incorporated – from budgeting and cost-benefits analyses to consideration of traditional religious mores or ethnic tensions in a society. In just one week, student teams will have to disentangle complex problems, reflect and synthesize findings, acknowledge limitations, and occasionally negotiate opposing viewpoints to create an evidence-based, innovative set of recommendations that they then present to judges on competition day this Saturday. At the competition’s conclusion, a winning team is chosen, but more importantly, new ideas and applications are generated for very real public health problems, and students remain inspired and impassioned global citizens.