{The University of Rwanda hosted from 17th to 19th December, 2016 The Global Health Students Case competition (GH-SCC) at Nobleza Hotel organized with the support of Health Central and East Africa Network (OHCEA).}
OHCEA is a network of 16 Public Health and Veterinary Higher Education Institutions from 6 Eastern and Central African countries (Democratic Republic of Congo, Ethiopia, Kenya, Rwanda, Tanzania, Uganda, Cameroon and Senegal), organized in partnership with University of Minnesota and Tufts University.
The competition was organized under the theme “A multidisciplinary approach of responding, treating, and controlling disease outbreak: a case of Ebola in Rwanda,” with the intention of training the future one health workforce to be able to respond to global health threats in multidisciplinary manner.
The competition brought together student members of the One Health Students Club in Rwanda from the various disciplines of the University of Rwanda in order to study how a disease outbreak like Ebola, one among the Pandemic Threats can be contained using a multidisciplinary approach.
The disciplines include Veterinary Medicine, Wildlife and Aquatic Resources Management, Biotechnology, Botany and Conservation, General Medicine, Environmental and Public Health, Nursing and Midwifery and Nutrition and Dietetics.
Within three days of preparations, contestants were exposed to a critical and systematic thinking strategies to develop a proposal on how Ebola can be contained if it outbreaks in Rwanda. Points that were proposed to be developed included Prevention, Detection and Response.
Contestants were subjected to their proposals presentations and to a Q&A Session where judges from Rwanda Agricultural Board, Rwanda Biomedical Center, PREDICT and RESPOND, USAID and University of Rwanda were called to assess the contestants.
The GH-SCC round one was inaugurated at University of Rwanda, selecting the best team that will represent the institution on the next level of the GH-SCC. From the institutional level, the best team will compete with the other best teams in OHCEA network.
The University of Rwanda engages One Health activities through its College of Agriculture, Animal Sciences and Veterinary Medicine and College of Medicine and Health Sciences.
The Network is dedicated to promote One Health, by education, research and community outreach within country members under the support of USAID/Emerging Pandemic Threats-II (EPT-II) Program.
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