Pitt’s 2024 Global Health Case Competition awarded first place to an interdisciplinary team that included students from Pitt’s Schools of Public Health and Nursing and the Kenneth P. Dietrich School of Arts & Sciences. The competition, designed to give undergraduate and graduate students professional experience in developing innovative solutions and strategies to real-world global health issues, included 13 multi-disciplinary teams from across Pitt’s campus who were tasked with developing a strategy to address the need for prosthetics and rehabilitation care among refugees living in Jordan.
The winning presentation, “Restoring Mobility Initiative,” included students Kate Carpenter (A&S), Britney David (Nursing), Rebecca Duncan (Nursing), Brandon Hale (A&S), Niyati Savur (Public Health/Department of Human Genetics) and Thanmayee Yalamanchi (A&S). Their presentation was a unanimous choice by judges Helen Cochrane, Pitt’s School of Health and Rehabilitation Sciences, and Dana Townsend, Syrian American Medical Society and an alum of Pitt’s Global Studies program.
The first-place prize includes Pitt sponsorship and funding to attend the Emory Morningside Global Health Case Competition in March 2025 at Emory University, where more than 30 student teams from around the world will compete.