2016 Global Health Case Competition to be Held Saturday

LEXINGTON, Ky. (Feb. 26, 2016 The University of Kentucky Global Health Initiative is welcoming its second annual Global Health Case Competition (GHCC), which will take place 8 a.m.- 5 p.m. Saturday, Feb. 27, at the College of Pharmacy. The competition will involve participants addressing ways to combat childhood obesity in Mexico.

 

Twelve interdisciplinary student teams representing 15 different colleges will develop strategies to address a critical global health scenario during the Global Health Case Competition.
 
For this year’s scenario, each student team will serve as a multidisciplinary consultant team to the Division of Child Health in Mexico’s Ministry of Health. The teams will create a strategy for reducing the health and socio-economic burdens of childhood obesity in Mexico and determine the costs and trade-offs involved.
 
The student teams will have 15 minutes to present their strategies to a panel of judges, followed by a 10-minute question-and-answer portion.
 
One team will be chosen to advance to the 2016 International Emory Global Health Case Competition, which will take place on April 8-9, 2016 at Emory University. There, the UK winning team will face teams from 24 other universities who will collaborate to learn about, develop and recommend innovative solutions for the 21st century global health posed problem. The first-place team at the Emory competition will win $6,000.
 
The UK Global Health Case Competition is organized by the Global Health Initiative, whose mission is to advance research and educational programs for students to improve the health of people throughout the world.
 
For more information about UK’s 2016 Global Health Case Competition please visit the GHCC website.

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