Congratulations to our students for bringing Boston University to second place at The Extramural Emory Global Health Case Competition!
Congratulations to our Boston University team (with three MPH/MBA candidates, an MD/MBA candidate, a student in Biomedical Engineering, and an MD candidate) that came in second in The Extramural Emory Global Health Case Competition on Saturday, March 31, 2012 out of 23 university teams from across the globe! The Second Place prize was $2,500. BU also won the “audience choice award” voted by their peers in the contest.
This is the first time that Boston University has competed in this event. The teams are given a specially developed global health case, and asked to present a solution. This year’s case was difficult, with political overtones as well as health and development issues. The question was “Develop a strategy for Canadian aid to Sri Lanka that deals with the health and resettlement issues of the Tamil population, keeping in mind the resistance of the Sinhalese government to accusations of war crimes and persecution, and recognizing the presence of a great many Tamil refugees in Canada.”
A huge congratulations to Ivan Busulwa (Team Captain), Catherine Shih, Meg Meyer, Sunil Nair, Daniel Silva and Darash Desai!
