Emory Morningside Global Health Case Competition
The Emory Morningside Global Health Case Competition: Student-led Solutions to Emerging and Persistent Global Health Challenges
Emory Global Health Institute (EGHI) hosts teams from around the world at Emory University to compete in the largest global health case competition in the world.
The Emory Morningside Global Health Case Competition (EMGHCC) is an immersive program that brings together students from multiple disciplines to address a critical global health challenge. Since 2009, the competition has engaged over 100 universities and more than 2,300 students across six continents.
I was told this program would be one of the highlights of medical school, and it absolutely lived up to the expectations. I have a new appreciation for the intense research and planning it takes to implement similar health intervention programs in the real world.
Over 30 student teams spend one week developing solutions to a global health challenge, meet virtually with case advisors, and then gather in-person at Emory University to present their business case and innovative interventions to an expert panel of judges.
With generous support from The Morningside Foundation and The Marcus Foundation, EGHI continues to engage and prepare the next generation of global health leaders.
EGHI encourages graduate and undergraduate students enrolled at accredited universities to participate. Four to six students compose a team; students must represent at least three different schools or disciplines within their university. Medical residents, post-graduate fellows, and post-doctoral fellows affiliated with the university are also eligible.
The competition is an immersive hybrid event, with virtual case advising, independent team collaboration, and two rounds of in-person competition. Teams showcase their solutions during a 12-minute live presentation followed by an 8-minute question and answer session (Q&A). Teams selected as finalists present their solutions to a new panel of judges on the following day of competition, incorporating a case twist.
Application Period: October 21 – November 25, 2024
Case Release: Thursday, March 20, 2025
Virtual Advising Sessions: Monday, March 24, and Tuesday, March 25, 2025
International Teams Arrive: Wednesday, March 26, 2025
Domestic Teams Arrive: Thursday, March 27, 2025
Case Submission Deadline: Thursday, March 27 at 7:00 pm
First Round Competition: Friday, March 28, 2025
Final Round Competition: Saturday, March 29, 2025
- Marcus Foundation Prize (First Place) $5,000
- Second Place $3,000
- Third Place $2,000
- Fourth Place $1,000
- Participant’s Choice $500
- Honorable Mention $500
Previous case challenge topics include:
- 2023: Preventing Maternal Death in Haiti’s Central Plateau
- 2022: Taking on Environmental Health Disparities: Developing Health Action Plans to Improve the Health of Indigenous Peoples
- 2021: I Am Not Throwin’ Away My Shot: Addressing the Challenges of COVID-19 Vaccine Distribution, Hesitancy, and Equity
- 2020: Hasta La Vista Baby! Government Policies and Effective Initiatives for the Eradication of Measles
See case competition summaries for previous years’ case cases and winning solutions.
Email questions to eghi@emory.edu
During the 16th annual competition, March 14-23, 2024, students from 31 universities from across six continents presented solutions to the case challenge, "Tackling India’s Twindemic: Accelerating integrated diabetes mellitus-tuberculosis care to end TB."
2024 Winning Teams
First Place | Yale University | AKANSHA - आकाङ्क्ष / Twindemic Response Via Social Health Activism |
Second Place | University of Pittsburgh | |
Third Place | Albert Einstein College of Medicine | Driving Away the Twindemic of Diabetes and Tuberculosis in Andhra Pradesh |
Fourth Place | Penn State University | To-Get-There Campaign: Ending DM-TB through screening and integrated care, Food of Life NGO, Andhra Pradesh |
Honorable Mention | Vanderbilt University | CareShift |
Participants’ Choice Award | Vanderbilt University | CareShift |
2024 Winner's Box
"In winning the Emory case competition, this talented group of Yale students, drawn from across the university, demonstrated the critical, creative, and strategic thinking that is needed to address the world’s most pressing health challenges," said Dr. Michael Cappello, MD, interim director of Yale Institute for Global Health. (See Yale Students Finish First at Emory Global Health Case Competition.)
Their solution – called Akanksha, a Sanskrit word meaning ambition – focused on screening for latent TB among diabetic populations in India and empowering community health workers.
