Welcome  to  the    2015  GLOBAL  HEALTH  CASE  COMPETITION  

Proudly Presented by the Members of the Planning Committee

And Our Partners at the Global Health Council

January 31st, 2015

2015 PLANNING COMMITTEE Dr. Sarah McKune- Faculty Advisor Amber Barnes - Director Manal Alabduljabbar - Assistant Director Lindsey Laytner - Marketing Director Jessie King - Finance Director Mirna Amaya - Volunteer Co-Director Rebekah Schwartz - Volunteer Co-Director Stephanie Moody-Geissler - Case Writing Co-Director Oliver Nguyen - Logistics Co-Director Jessica Marie Rowland - Logistics Co-Director and

This event would not be possible without the generous support of the following sponsors:

• UF International Center • Emerging Pathogens Institute • College of Public Health and Health

Professions • UF Health Science Center • College of Liberal Arts and Sciences • Master of Sustainable Development Practice

Program • UF Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences • Levin College of Law

This year’s case was chosen due to both current events and projected health issues for developing nations. Globally, the minimum standard of care is 23 skilled healthcare professionals for every 10,000 people. However, in the West African country of Sierra Leone, the rate is 2 skilled healthcare workers for every 10,000 people. Unless the country can create a sustainable solution to this problem, an effective response to the current Ebola outbreak, future epidemics, and everyday public health needs will be unmet.

Teams represent a consulting agency hired by the Government of Sierra Leone to tackle the

following: How do you address the critical shortage and uneven distribution of the health workforce in

Sierra Leone?

W E L C O M E

C A S E S U M M A R Y

This year marks the second Global Health Case Competition at the University of Florida. This intermural competition allows exceptional students the chance to demonstrate their ability to successfully work with partners from diverse academic backgrounds and experiences to solve a complex global health problem. Teams received the 2015 case topic on Wednesday night and have had just 48 hours to come up with the ideas they will present today. Eight teams will present their recommendations and following deliberations by our expert panel, the top three teams will earn cash prizes.

We welcome you all to this year’s competition.

E V E N T S C H E D U L E

Time Activity 1:30-

2:00pm

Team 5 Presentation 2:00-

2:30pm

Team 6 Presentation 2:30-

2:45pm

Break 2:45-

3:15pm

Team 7 Presentation 3:15-

3:45pm

Team 8 Presentation 3:45-

4:00pm

Break/Compiling Audience Questions

4:00-4:30pm

Deliberations and Audience Questions and

Answers 4:30pm-5:00pm

Awards Ceremony and Closing

*Networking event will follow the close of the competition. Team members and judges are

encouraged to meet and discuss the competition with faculty and peers.

M E E T T H E J U D G E S M E E T T H E J U D G E S

MONIKA OLI, PH.D Monika Oli is a Lecturer at the Department of

Microbiology and Cell Science in University of Florida. She completed her education in the University of Edinburgh, UK; Mississippi State University; and her PhD in University of Alabama at Birmingham. She finished her post-doc at UF and completed a Masters of Science in Entrepreneurship a at Warrington College of Business, University of Florida, FL. She was born and raised in Germany, studied parasitology and infectious diseases for the last 20 years, and worked for small entrepreneurial start-up companies for 7 years. She enjoys teaching, running, travel and photography.

DR. PAUL PSYCHAS, MD Dr. Paul Psychas MD is Assistant Professor in the

Dept. of Community Health & Family Medicine in the College of Medicine, and Adjunct Professor in the School of Public Health. He was educated at Harvard College and the University of Florida. He

recently returned from serving 10 years in West Africa with the U.S. government in various medical

positions: Beginning in 2001, he served as Area Medical Officer for the US Peace Corps, based in

the Ivory Coast. He helped guide the Peace Corps response to the 2002 ebola outbreak in Gabon. From 2006, he served as USAID Infectious Disease Advisor in Ghana, supporting the Ministry of Health’s response to avian influenza and other threats. From 2009 to 2013, he served as a CDC medical officer in Ghana, overseeing malaria control programs valued at $30 million per year under the President’s Malaria Initiative. Since returning to Gainesville in August 2013, he has divided his time between seeing patients at the UF Eastside Community Clinic and conducting malaria research at the Emerging Pathogens Institute. He is married to Marjatta Eilitta, a UF-trained expert on agricultural development in West Africa.

SHARON ABRAMOWITZ, PH.D Sharon Abramowitz is an assistant professor of anthropology and African studies at the University of Florida. She earned her Ph.D. in medical and social anthropology from Harvard University, and completed an NIMH postdoctoral fellowship in psychiatric epidemiology at Johns Hopkins University. Her work on mental illness, post-conflict reconstruction, and gender-based violence in postwar Liberia has appeared in African Studies Review, Culture, Medicine and Psychiatry, and Social Science in Medicine, and in 2011 she was awarded the Rudolph Virchow Professional Award for a Critical Anthropology of Global Health. Her first book, Searching for Normal in the Wake of the Liberian War, was recently published with the University of Pennsylvania Press. She is currently contributing to the West African Ebola epidemic response by leading the Emergency Ebola Anthropology Network.

F A C U L T Y A D V I S O R

SARAH MCKUNE, PH.D Dr. McKune is a Clinical Assistant Professor in the Department of Epidemiology. She graduated from Wofford College in South Carolina and holds an MPH in International Health from Emory University and a PhD in interdisciplinary Ecology from the University of Florida. She completed her post-doc in UF’s International Center working to improve gender integration within the CGIAR Research Program on Climate Change, Agriculture, and Food Security (CCAFS) in South Asia and Sub-Saharan Africa. Dr. McKune is the PHHP Health Liaison to the UF International Center and is the Director of Public Health Programs in the College of Public Health & Health Professions.

E V E N T S C H E D U L E

Time Activity

9:00am

Team Registration and Presentation Check-in

9:30-9:45am

Welcome address and Introduction to Competition

9:45-10:00am Team Set Up/Transition

10:00-10:30am

Team 1 Presentation

10:30-11:00am

Team 2 Presentation

11:00-11:15am

Break

11:15-11:45am

Team 3 Presentation

11:45-12:15pm

Team 4 Presentation

12:15-1:30pm Break/Lunch (Judges’ time to discuss)

*Lunch provided for team members and judges

MAUREEN M. GOODENOW, PH.D Maureen M. Goodenow, Ph.D. is Professor of Pathology, Immunology, and Laboratory Medicine in the College of Medicine at the University of Florida. She holds the Stephany W. Holloway Endowed Chair for HIV/AIDS Research and is the Director of the Center for Research in Pediatric Immune Deficiency. She is also the Chair of the Global Health Council under the auspices of the UF International Center. Her interests include the role of governments in developing and implementing global health policies and how security and economics influence global health policy and programs. Professor Goodenow received a Ph.D. in molecular genetics from the Sue Golding Graduate School at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine in New York. Following a postdoctoral fellowship in molecular oncology at the Sloan Kettering Institute in New York, she was a visiting scientist at the Pasteur Institute in Paris before accepting a faculty position at the University of Florida in the College of Medicine. Currently she continues as a Senior Advisor for Health, Science, Technology, and Innovation at the Department of State in the Office of Economic Policy in the Bureau of East Asia Pacific Affairs [EAP/EP], the lead office for US engagement in APEC, where her expertise is applied to a portfolio of projects related to the economics of health and universal health care, higher education, science/ technology and innovation, as well as economic advantages for increasing roles for women and facilitating travel mobility for business, research, and higher education.  

M E E T T H E J U D G E S

JILL SONKE Jill Sonke is the Director of the University of Florida Center for the Arts in Medicine and Assistant Director of UF Health Shands Arts in Medicine. She serves on the faculty of the Center for Arts in Medicine, and is an affiliated faculty member in the School of Theatre & Dance, the Center for African Studies, and the Center for Movement Disorders and Neurorestoration. Jill is an Entrepreneurship Faculty Fellow in the UF Warrington College of Business, a College of the Arts Teaching Fellow, and a Distinguished Fellow of the Global Alliance for Arts & Health. With over 20 years of leadership in arts in medicine, Jill is active in research, teaching, and international cultural exchange. Her current research focuses on dance and Parkinson's disease, the effect of music on cost and quality of care in emergency medicine, and use of the arts for health messaging in the Ebola response.