2022 Intramural Emory Global Health Case Competition
Imagine an Olympic Games that requires the host country to not just build stadiums and infrastructure, but also to dramatically improve the health of the country’s people, wildlife, and natural environment. This was the imaginary situation presented to the teams in the 2022 Intramural Emory Global Health Case Competition, held in February.
The teams played the role of country representatives, bidding to host the summer 2036 Olympic Games. Each team selected one of three host countries—India, Mexico, or South Africa—and created OneHealth preparedness plans for review by judges.
The winning team was called OneIndia, or Ekta, and included: Matteo Ascherio-Victoria, of Emory College of Arts & Sciences; Anuska Bhandari, of Rollins School of Public Health; Kashish Kalwani, of Laney Graduate School; Eva Li, of Emory College of Arts & Sciences; Noah Mancuso, of Rollins School of Public Health; and William Wu, of Goizueta Business School.
After conducting a risk assessment, the team noted a strong prevalence of diseases transmitted from animals to humans. So they created a solution that would help prevent, report, and respond to such incidents.
They used this example: a person misses a rabies alert on her phone and is bitten by a stray dog. She opens the team’s OneIndia app to report the bite. Her de-identified information is sent to the OneIndia server. She receives immediate notification on where to go for a vaccine. The physician inputs her data into digital medical records, which are uploaded to the OneIndia surveillance system. The incident is reported to the regional animal response team. The team collaborates with other community organizations to focus on sterilization and vaccination efforts and works with schools and media to push for mitigation and awareness.
Second place in the case competition went to a team representing Mexico, and included: Grace Chung, of Emory University School of Medicine and Laney Graduate School; Lovette Ekwebelem, of Rollins School of Public Health; Alessia Kettlitz, of Rollins School of Public Health; Genevieve Pritchard, of Nell Hodgson Woodruff School of Nursing; Sunay Rastogi, of Emory College of Arts & Sciences; and Stella Zhang, of Emory College of Arts & Sciences.
Third place went to a team representing South Africa: Chiara Brust, of Rollins School of Public Health; Liah Nguyen, of Rollins School of Public Health; Anisha Sheth, of Rollins School of Public Health; Roxann Thompson, of Candler School of Theology; Anthony Wang, of Emory College of Arts & Sciences; and Wei-Hsuan Lee, of Emory University School of Medicine.
EGHI first began running the intramural case competition in the spring of 2009. “It was a huge success, and grew every year,” says Director of Student Programs Rebecca Baggett, MA, MPH.
The winning team receives a $3,000 cash prize and goes on to represent Emory and compete in the international Emory Morningside Global Health Case Competition.
Case Summaries
Read summaries of cases from winning teams here.