The 9th Annual APRU Global Health Virtual Case Competition 2024
Case competitions are increasingly popular around the world as a way for students to exercise critical thinking skills using a “real world” challenge. For this international, virtual competition, teams of 3-6 students will receive a challenge relating to a pressing global health problem. Teams will be given up to 12 weeks to prepare a video of up to 10 minutes in English proposing a realistic, well-designed, innovative solution to the challenge. Teams will save their videos on YouTube or Vimeo and submit the link via email for judging by an international panel of APRU Global Health Program members and other global expert judges.
Three videos will be chosen by an international panel of judges for the final round, which will be held as part of our APRU Global Health Conference 2024 (November 4-6, 2024, Bangkok). The winning team will be announced at the conference and a prize of US$1,000 will be awarded.
Challenge of the Year: “Improving Diabetes Care Management through Technological Innovation.”
This year, we partner with the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), the Thai Diabetes Federation and Chulalongkorn University School of Global Health on the challenge theme.
The number of people with diabetes around the world is rising, especially in low- and middle-income countries. The competition teams is asked to create a technology-based solution to improve diabetes care for patients in one economy in the Asia-Pacific with an APRU member institution. The overall challenge is to address the low rates of adherence to treatment about people with diabetes. If your proposal is selected by the local city government, your team would work closely with the Ministry of Health over the next three years. The plan must address either individual-level or systems-level barriers to treatment using technology with a total budget of US$1 million. We encourage teams to consider a balance of innovative yet realistic, evidence-based solutions.
Download the Document of the Challenge Theme
Results
We had 108 teams register, a record high, from 31 universities in 14 economies (Indonesia, Thailand, China, Canada, Chile, Japan, Hong Kong, Australia, the US, Philippines, New Zealand, Mexico, Ecuador, and Singapore). The winner will be announced and awarded US$1,000 at the APRU Global Health Conference 2024 at Chulalongkorn University on November 4–6.
Winner
Universitas Indonesia, Sparkling!
Finalists (in no particular order):
Chulalongkorn University/Mahidol University, Betabusters
Nanyang Technological University Singapore, Diabacron
Other Top 10 Teams (in no particular order):
Chulalongkorn University, iCU
National University of Singapore, Cure Crafters
Mahidol University/Thammasat University, Teebo & Co
The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Cubeta
Sun Yat-Sen University, AIP Dream Chasers
Simon Fraser University, GlucoWise Solutions
Tohoku University/Mahidol University, OverSea
For more information about the winners, please read the news article.