The Tulane Health Policy Case Competition gives teams of undergraduate students an opportunity to apply their talents and knowledge to put together a solution to a given health policy program. Students will have an opportunity to interact with school faculty in the course of constructing their solutions. Top teams will present their solutions to a panel of experts for detailed feedback.
Teams of up to three undergraduate students create policy-based solutions to a given problem. A workshop will be provided shortly after the case is released. Teams will construct PowerPoint presentations on solutions to the problem. Finalists will present to a panel of judges for real-time feedback.
2026 Case Prompt
This case asks teams of undergraduate students to assume the role of state policy makers tasks with implementing the federal Medicaid work requirements. As part of the 2025 Reconciliation Law states are required to implement requirements by January 1, 2027. States must assess whether beneficiaries are not in an exempted category and if they have satisfied the 80 hour per month work requirement. Students are asked to take on the role of state policy makers and detail their plans with an eye to accuracy of determination and cost efficiency. A good policy will leverage existing state infrastructure as appropriate and include detailed breakdowns of the costs of the policy package.
Times below are central.
- Competition Announced – Mon, Sep 7, 2024
- Registration deadline – Sun, Oct 4; 11:59pm central time
- Case Details Released – Mon, Oct 5; 5pm
- Zoom workshop – Thu, Oct 8; 4-6pm
- Slides due – Sun, Oct 18; 11:59pm
- Finalists present via Zoom – Sat, Oct 24; noon-2pm
- Awards
Each member of the winning team will receive $1,000 in cash as well as a $10,000 scholarship* to the Health Policy master's program.
*Scholarships are limited to students enrolled full-time in the Health Policy concentration of the Master of Public Health at the Tulane School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine. The award will be distributed $5,000 per semester. The award will be disbursed in the academic year following winning the competition.