2016 Global Health Case Competition 

Realizing Gender Equality in Guatemala

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The UVA Global Health Case Competition aims to inspire creativity and innovation in addressing complex and relevant global health challenges.  When the 24 student teams present their final recommendations on competition day, Saturday, January 30, they will have had 4 days to engage with the case and the opportunity to vet ideas with an academic or professional with relevant insight.

The case describes the Female Equity Initiative, a fictionalized NGO headquartered in a small southwestern Guatemalan municipality. The case competitors are asked to design new strategies to enhance gender equality in the region. The case was  developed in collaboration with a UVA Law School alumna and previous CGH Scholar, Kate Flatley. Ms. Flatley will be Skyping in to deliver the competition welcome address from her office in Guatemala, where she heads a leading NGO that seeks to empower Guatemalan women.

GHCC Case

The case has deliberately been designed to be complex and gives teams a vast range of problems to choose from and prioritize. The 13 faculty judges and 14 UVA-affiliated mentors expect teams to prioritize strategies and to justify their choices during their presentation. The case analysis, inter-disciplinary collaboration, and formal persuasive presentation are all important activities to help train global health leaders for the future. We welcome the public to learn more about the struggle for gender equality in Guatemala and to cheer on the teams. The winning team will represent UVa at the national Global Health Case Competition held at Emory University in Atlanta.

Team "Salud es la Virtud" will be attending the Emory International Global Health Case Competition on April 9-10.
Congratulations!

Salud es la Virtud: Alexis Chaet, Luis Lopez Ruiz, Bansi Patel, Matthew Van de Graaf, Grace Finley (not pictured: Rachael Mossey)

Finalists

• Team 17: Salud es la Virtud (First Place)

• Team 10: World Health Helpers (First Runner Up)

• Team 6: Pentagon Global Consulting (Second Runner Up)

Thank You To Our Keynote

Kate Flatley, ​Executive Director and Founder, Women's Justice Initiative 

Thank You To Our Judges

• Rebecca Dillingham - CGH Director (Medicine)
• Dana Elzey - Engineering
• Jennifer Roe - Architecture
• Susan Kools - Nursing
• David Edmunds - Global Development 
• Rupa Valdez - Public Health
• Max Luna - Medicine
• David Kahler - Engineering (CGH Interdisciplinary Post-doc Fellow)
• Colleen Laurence - Global Health Case Comp @UVa Founder
• Brad Brown - Commerce
• Phoebe Crisman - Architecture
• Susan Goins-Eplee - Nursing

Thank You To Our Mentors

• Anselmo Canfora - Architecture
• Jameel Winter - Medicine
• Jennifer Roe - Architecture
• Anna Eisenstein - Anthropology
• Karen Ingersoll - Psychiatry
• China Shertz - Medical Anthropology
• Kate McManus - Medicine
• Kent Wayland - Engineering 
• Rebecca Scharf - Medicine
• Julia den Hartog - Medicine
• Karen Firehock - Architecture
• Amy Brown - Medicine

Thank You to Our Case Writing Team

• ​Christina Briscoe - School of Medicine
• Claire Constance - Masters in Public Health Program
• Elizabeth Gasteiger - College of Arts & Sciences
• Nanki Kaur - College of Arts & Sciences
• Sreemoyee Som - (Case Writing Lead) Biomedical Engineering 

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