2021 YIGH Case Competition

The 2nd Annual YIGH Case Competition took place virtually on February 13th. Participants were challenged to develop an intervention that would address insufficient availability, accessibility, and affordability of mental health resources and services in Ukraine, focusing on children/adolescents, displaced and stateless persons, or health care workers. Five teams – who collaborated with Yale faculty advisors on their projects -- presented potential solutions. The winners and project titles are:

First Place: “A community-based mental health program: A mobile clinic approach to care among internally displaced persons.” Preeti Adhikary, Jiaying Chen, William Eger, Prastik Mohanraj, Samantha Ramirez

Second Place: “Community PTSD Treatment for Adolescents.” Taina Lopez-Cartagena, Kiran Mansoor, Tabitha Njubi, Sarah Teng, Yan Xing

Third Place: “A web-based educational and Outreach Platform for Children and Adolescent Mental Health Intervention”. Joseph Gyasi, Victoria Harries, Fatma Naz Cemre Kalayci, Revant Kantamneni, Sunnie Liu, Neha Middela.

Judges for this year’s competition included: Jason Abaluck, professor of economics at the Yale School of Management; Jim Boyle, executive director of venture development and faculty entrepreneurship, Yale Office of Cooperative Research; Ted Iheanacho, associate professor of psychiatry, Yale School of Medicine; Erika Linnander, director of Global Health Leadership Initiative; and, Lindsay Powell, assistant clinical Professor, Yale School of Nursing.

The event was managed and led by Nükte Göç, MPH, program administrator at Global Health Leadership Initiative and a multidisciplinary student planning committee, including: Jenne Lahov, YSN’21, Misikir Adnew, YSPH ’21, Kelsey Jug, YSN ’22, Kubilay Kaymaz, YSPH ’21, Sina Reinhard, YSPH ’21, Mitchelle Matesva, YSM ’23, Annan Deng, YGSAS ’22.