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.
2025 Case Prompt
This case challenges teams of undergraduate students to assume the role of state policymakers, re-envisioning how rural healthcare is provided in Louisiana. The impetus for this is the challenges presented by changes to Medicaid eligibility rules, as well as the opportunity presented by the Rural Health Transformation Program in the July 2025 reconciliation bill. It is anticipated that this measure will provide Louisiana with $220 million per year in each of the next five years. Students should detail their plan for spending 1/3rd of this money in one of three investment tracks: infrastructure modernization, workforce expansion, or care delivery innovation. 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 8, 2025
- Registration deadline – Sun, Oct 5; 11:59pm
- Case Details Released – Mon, Oct 6; 5pm
- Zoom workshop – Thu, Oct 9; 4-6pm
- Slides due – Sun, Oct 19; 11:59pm
- Finalists present via Zoom – Sat, Oct 25; 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.
