Today's global health challenges require the engagement and commitment of people and organizations specializing in numerous fields and disciplines. The perspectives and recommendations from the worlds of business, medicine, public health, nursing, theology, law, the liberal arts, and science are essential to improving health and health care around the world. It is for this reason that UAB is calling for students from multiple disciplines to address a global health challenge in a team setting. The winning team will receive $1,500 and the opportunity to compete in the national competition at Emory University in March 2012. The second place team will receive $500.

 What is a case competition anyway?

Common across U.S. business schools, a case competition features teams of four to six students working through a real-life case scenario with the goal of providing helpful strategic recommendations to move the case subject forward efficiently and effectively. The competition is centered on team presentations to judges, who then score student recommendations and award prizes.

The UAB case competition is different in that students are given a case that features a real life global health problem. It will require an interdisciplinary approach to formulate recommendations regarding the case that may involve issues such as health care policy, public health implementation and planning, business partnership & investment, medical research, logistics management, cultural understanding, and other components.

 Who can participate?

Students (graduate and undergraduate) from across UAB are encouraged to participate. Teams will be comprised of four to six students from three or more UAB schools. Students can sign up as individuals or in a team. For team registration, you must have a complete team already with 3 UAB schools represented and at least 4 students on the team. Students who register as individuals will be grouped together to form interdisciplinary teams.

 Important Dates

The dates for the 3rd Annual UAB Global Health Case Competition are February 29th-March 3rd. Online regisration will open on February 7th at 10AM, and there will be a link to the registration form on this page. Please note that registration is limited to 8 teams so be sure to register as soon as possible!

CLICK HERE FOR INDIVIDUAL REGISTRATION

CLICK HERE FOR GROUP REGISTRATION

 How Does it Work

During the week of the competition, teams will be presented the case on Wednesday and assigned a faculty or professional mentor with whom they will be able to meet for 1 hour during their case preparation to get feedback on their ideas. Teams will present their case during a 15 minute presentation on Saturday to a panel of judges and have 3-5 mins for Q&A from judges. Winning teams to be announced at a luncheon following the presentations. To read about the 2010 competition and hear insight from the winning team, click here.

 Why Should I Do This?

• the chance to meet global health faculty here at UAB and global health professionals from the community
• opportunity to interact with students from across the UAB campus and work as a team, bringing your unique strengths to solving this case
• learn about the real-life economic, ethical and cultural issues encountered in global health