2016: TRAILBLAZING REMOTE STUDY, TRAVEL AND GLOBAL HEALTH COMPETITIONS One of the recurring themes about the MPH is the flexibility and friendships formed. The program is very much one of recognising and accommodating individual needs where possible. Whilst we have all experienced the need to be flexible through the years of the pandemic, Gareth Durrant was already trailblazing a remote global education approach in 2016! 174 NEW STUDENTS
Repeated themes from past students have been about the long-lasting friendships and strong connections made throughout the MPH. Tan Nguyen took this a step further with a group of MPH friends going on holiday to play football. The Emory Global Health Case Competition is an international competition where each year six postgraduate students from the Melbourne Global Health Case Competition are selected to represent the University the following year to compete against teams around the world in a pre-set case study. A shout out for the teams in 2016, 2019 and 2020 who received third, first and second places respectively. An amazing achievement!
• In 2016, the competing team won third place – with MPH student Mashaal Chaudhri and Dr 43 STUDENTS FROM OVERSEAS
Jenn Lacy-Nichols, then PhD student in Agricultural Sciences and now with MSPGH.
• In 2019, the competing team won first place – with 1 of the 6 students, David Morgan, from the intercalated MD/MPH program.
• In 2020 the presenting team won second place with Hannah Morgan, MPH student and Hayden Burch, Olivia Baenziger and Travis Lines all doing the intercalated MD/MPH.
And congratulations to Mariam Hachem, an MPH student for being part of the 2021 team examining the challenges of COVID-19 vaccine hesitancy. “With backgrounds ranging from political science, medicine, public health and research, the six of us
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came together to work on COVID-19 Vaccine Hesitancy. The experience taught me the importance of listening, critical thinking and working with individuals from different domain specialisations. This is the only University experience that I’d had in my entire tertiary education history where I have had this chance. I strongly encourage anyone who is thinking of applying for the Emory competition to just go for it!” Mariam Hachem, Melbourne 2021 team member
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