2024 Case Competition
The 5th Annual YIGH Case Competition took place on February 17th, 2024. Five student teams proposed innovations for managing non-communicable diseases, including developing insulin wallets to tackle diabetes care, offering essential services through mobile clinics, utilizing transportable cooling storages for insulin medication, and delivering a multivitamin to tackle malnutrition.
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First Place: “Cooling as a Service (CaaS)” Noemi Guerra (BS '24), Xinzhi Qiu (BS '26), Felicia Annan-Mills (MPH '25), William Zhang (MPH '24), Wei Pang (MS '24), and Lindsay Walker (MSN '26)
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Second Place: “Vital Vans” Shivnag Sista (Ph.D. '25), Keervani Kandala (MS ‘25), Teimur Kayani (MD-MPH '24), Juan D. Borrego (BA '26), Charlene Jamie Miciano (BA-MPH '25)
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Third Place: “VitaminX/CareX” Simona Hausleitner (BS ‘25), Carson Ferrara (MPH ‘25), Natalia Rovelo (MPH '24), Kelly Savin (MSN), Sofia Jacobson (BA '26)
Judges for this year’s competition included: Jason Abaluck, professor of economics at the Yale School of Management; Mayur M. Desai, Professor of Epidemiology (Chronic Diseases), Yale School of Public Health; Nathaniel Raymond, Executive Director, Humanitarian Research Lab, Yale School of Public Health; Robert Rohrbaugh, Professor of Psychiatry, Associate Dean for Global Health Education, Yale School of Medicine; Eman Salih, Postdoctoral Associate, Yale School of Public Health
2024 Case Competition Planning Committee
Here are the students leading Yale’s Internal Case Competition
| Event Chair | Kailey Seiler (MPH - SBS) |
| Logistics Coordinator | Josiane Alix (MPH - SBS) |
| Marketing Coordinator | Polina Ovchinnikova (GSAS – MS in Health Informatics) |
| Faculty Communications Coordinator | Shankeri Vijayakumar (MPH- SBS) |
Case writing team
| Team Lead | Charles Minicucci (MPH - EHS) |
| Case Writing Team | Difie Antwi (MPH - Health Care Management), Jack Carew (Ph.D.), Atalay Demiray (Ph.D.) |