FAQs

Each participating Indo-Pacific university can register team(s) of between four to six students. Students can be from undergraduate and/or postgraduate courses. The team should consist of students from at least three different disciplines. If you are unable to have this diversity in your team, contact ipghcc-uom@unimelb.edu.au to discuss further.

All universities from the 24 Indo-Pacific countries are welcome to register.

This is a hybrid competition, held on the University of Melbourne campus and virtually. We encourage teams to attend in-person if possible, to make the most of networking opportunities.

There is no registration fee this year.

Teams may choose to work on the case according to their own availability. The case will be released two weeks before the competition, to give students time to prepare their case response.

Each non-UoM university is to nominate one of its staff to be an academic mentor. The mentor will be a point of contact for the competition organisers and the student team. Once the case has been released, the students will be able to approach their academic mentor to get support in identifying other staff across the university who could help with the case topic, and to provide feedback on their case approach and presentation delivery.

While there is no specific preparation needed, it would be valuable for students to look into some current global health challenges, and public health responses/approaches that have been taken already.

Nous Consulting (competition sponsor) will provide a live webinar session for students to learn how to approach a scenario and how to prepare their solutions. The webinar will be recorded for participants to watch again.

Likewise, Emory University will provide a live webinar session regarding communications and delivery of the case solution. The webinar will be recorded for participants to watch again.