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A team of five undergraduate students and one graduate student from the Kenneth P. Dietrich �鶹��ý of Arts and Sciences, �鶹��ý of Nursing and the �鶹��ý of Health and Rehabilitation Sciences won third place at the Emory Morningside Global Health Case Competition.

• Eva Brady (junior, Kenneth P. Dietrich �鶹��ý of Arts and Sciences); 
• Haley Marra (junior, �鶹��ý of Nursing); 
• Vishan Ramanathan (senior, Kenneth P. Dietrich �鶹��ý of Arts and Sciences); 
• Sophie Tayade (senior, �鶹��ý of Rehabilitation Sciences); 
• Naomi Gurewitsch (junior, Kenneth P. Dietrich �鶹��ý of Arts and Sciences). 
• Emily Crisan (first year graduate student, Graduate �鶹��ý of Public Health).

The student team’s winning project, “The Forward Project, Addressing the COVID-19 Vaccine Hesitancy in Japan,” offers an innovative plan for vaccine distribution focused on matters of equity while addressing vaccine hesitancy. The team was coached by Cynthia Salter, assistant professor of behavioral and community health sciences and interim director of the Center for Global Health, and Elizabeth Van Nostrand, associate professor in GSPH and director of the master of public health (MPH) and JD/MPH programs. 

The Emory Morningside Global Health Case Competition challenged 52 multidisciplinary student teams from universities representing 15 countries and six continents to develop plans for COVID-19 vaccination programs that innovate solutions to overcome challenges such as vaccine hesitancy and inequitable distribution. According to Emory, “this year’s case challenge asked student teams to design a country-wide vaccination program for one of four countries: Bangladesh, Brazil, Japan or Nigeria.”