REGISTER FOR THE 2025 GHCC!
The UVA Global Health Case Competition is an event designed to bring together UVA students from all schools to excercise their unique individual perspectives and skills to address complex global challenges.
General schedule:
- Interdisciplinary teams are assigned a global health case on a Sunday (February 9, 2025) and have through Friday to deliberate, strategize, and innovate on the given issue.
- On the following Saturday (February 15, 2025) a multidisciplinary panel of judges will award the winning team. Cash Awards including $1000 for 1st place; $500 for 2nd place; $300 for 3rd place.
UVA is one of a small group of institutions that writes new global health cases annually. We want these cases to be pedagogical tools and thus strive to incorporate both primary and secondary research into the case based on feedback from a community partner. We also believe that our honest cases give competition participants the unique opportunity to deliver a high-impact solution for real global health clients within a low-stakes environment.
The topic for the 2025 competition is a secret until we release the case on Sunday, February 9th – but we promise it will be as exciting and rigorous as in previous years.
Our goal is to provide a realistically complex case that challenges student teams to:
- SYNTHESIZE information from diverse sources and perspectives
- WORK WITHIN the human and material strengths and constraints of the situation
- INNOVATE for real issues that affect real people
- COLLABORATE with students from different disciplines
- LEARN from fellow teams, your team mentor, and competition judges
The competition promotes understanding the structural and social determinants of health, incorporates faculty mentorship, and focuses on under-served settings. It provides an avenue for students to design real interventions that they may go on to pursue as full-scale research projects.