A team of six University of Pittsburgh juniors placed second in Emory University’s 2024 Emory Morningside Case Competition held March 21-23. The competition brings together students studying in diverse fields to address a real-world challenge in global health.
The teams were tasked with developing a proposal to create a consortium that would accelerate integrated care for diabetes mellitus and tuberculosis in India, with the goal of eradicating tuberculosis in the country.
The University of Pittsburgh team, which includes biological sciences majors Cindy Le and Dylan Kurian, nutrition science major Christina Yi, chemistry major Lauren Angus, engineering major Harper Segal and biological sciences and business major Namita Mahajan, was one of 31 teams from universities around the world to present their proposals to a panel of judges. As a top-five finalist, they were then asked to revise their plan in response to a new prompt. They presented their new plan to the judging panel and the non-finalist teams.
The Pitt team placed second behind the team from Yale. Last fall, the Pitt team placed first in a similar case competition held on the Pittsburgh campus.
In addition to providing the teams with an engaging intellectual challenge, the competition gave them the chance to connect with peers from around the world and to network with advisors from diverse professional fields.
The team is sponsored by the Global Studies Center and the School of Public Health’s Center for Global Health.