The Health and Medical Sciences Academy (HMSA) at Monticello High School, the UVA Center for Global Health (CGH), and the Darden School are working together to support near-peer collaboration on the unique platform offered by the UVA Global Health Case Competition (GHCC). We are delighted to support Global Health engagement and leadership in a community-University partnership.
On Tuesday, March 19, 8 HMSA teams featuring 44 Monticello High School students competed with the support of their UVA mentors at the UVA Darden School. Please find a survey of the press coverage of the day.
Photo Credit: Andrew Shurtleff/The Daily Progress | Monticello Health Medical and Sciences Academy students celebrating the winning proposal for the HMSA CGH Global Health Case Competition at the UVA Darden School of Business. Students were asked to find a solution for the Global Health crisis in the Appalachian region. Pictured are HMSA students, Abby Engler, Lexie Stadler, Hayden Peper, Christina Shin, Sydney Landen, and Ruby Calhoun, with their UVA student mentor, Jonathan Laredo, CLAS, 2021. (Please click the photo for the full Daily Progress photo gallery.)
By Laura Perrot |
CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. (CBS19 NEWS) -- High school students in Albemarle County got a chance to tackle real-world health issues by teaming up with the University of Virginia.
Students from the Health & Medical Sciences Academy, a magnet program at Monticello High School, faced off Tuesday in a competition at the Darden School of Business.
Eight groups were asked to develop a plan to address the current health crisis in the Appalachian Region of Virginia, which has high levels of diabetes, obesity and opioid abuse.
The students presented their five-year plans to a panel of judges from the UVA Global Health Center.
Director of the Global Health Center Rebecca Dillingham said the competition gave the high school students a great experience.
"It offers an opportunity for rigorous case-based learning, which asks students to think across disciplines about the complexity of addressing a health issue," Dillingham said.
Annemarieke Leliveld, a junior at Monticello High School, said her group's approach focused on educating youth in the Appalachian Region.
"A lot of times in school we do work where it's like if this was happening, what would you do? But this time it's, this is happening. What do you want to try and do to really do something to help," Leliveld said.
The winning students will also get a $500 award.
Student Teams Brainstorm Ways to Tackle Health Crisis in Appalachia
According to data from the University of Virginia, the Appalachia region of Virginia has an overwhelming amount of people facing obesity and diabetes.
Tuesday, March 19th 2019, 4:23 PM EDT
Edited by Emmy Freedman
Reported by Meghan Moriarty
CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. (WVIR) - According to data from the University of Virginia, the Appalachia region of Virginia has an overwhelming amount of people facing obesity and diabetes.
On Tuesday, March 19, students from UVA and area high schools put their heads together for some winning solutions to tackle this health crisis.
Eight teams of students have been prepping for this day to show off their research and plan to address the health crisis in Appalachia. Presentations kicked off Tuesday morning at Darden Hall at UVA.
A panel of judges graded the teams based on analysis, development, and feasibility.
After some deliberation, one team was deemed the winner and took home a grand prize for its work on tackling mental health to aid other health issues.
“We came up with this idea - an art center, because art therapy is good for mental health,” Christina Shin, a tenth-grade student at Monticello High School, said. “So, it wasn't really we put in a lot of work. It was we were throwing out a ton of ideas and somehow we were able to incorporate them into one big idea that made it all work."
Jonathan Laredo, a first-year UVA student, served as the mentor for the team of Monticello High School girls, and says he was lucky to work with such a great team.
"I hope that this can possibly be used in the real world in some sort of sense, whether it's in West Virginia or maybe in a county close to here or something, because it really is a good idea I believe,” Laredo said. “We worked really hard on it to put it together and it's something that's actually truly feasible."
That group of students took home $500 to push their design forward in hopes of making a difference in the long run.