The 10th Annual APRU Global Health Virtual Case Competition 2025
Case competitions are increasingly popular around the world as a way for students to exercise critical thinking skills using a “real world” challenge. For this international, virtual competition, teams of 3–6 students will receive a challenge relating to a pressing global health problem. Teams will be given up to 12 weeks to prepare a video of up to 10 minutes in English proposing a realistic, well-designed, innovative solution to the challenge. Teams will save their videos on video-sharing websites and submit the links for judging by an international panel of APRU Global Health Program members and other global expert judges.
Challenge of the Year
“Advancing Inclusive Growth in Southeast Asia by Leveraging Data and AI for Food Security”
Due to urbanization, growing populations, conflict, climate change, rising cost of living, and declining food production, food insecurity is expected to rise in coming years. Your team has been asked to work with one national government in Southeast Asia to inform the development of a five-year strategic plan to address food insecurity through a food systems approach. Previous attempts to address food insecurity have used a siloed way of thinking that failed to take into consideration the complex, inter-connected issues, and different dimensions of food insecurity. This nation’s government aims to collaborate with many stakeholders on the design of new policies and programs. However, convening and collecting data from many stakeholders can be very resource intensive. Therefore, this government wants to employ the power of artificial intelligence (AI) but acknowledges the limitations of AI, including the shortcomings of data currently available. In this challenge, your team is tasked with conducting a detailed analysis and critique of the existing data available on one dimension of food insecurity in one Southeast Asian nation, as well as a plan to collect new, more inclusive data.