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This case simulation helps students experience first-hand the challenges of multilateral negotiations in global health policy. In World Health Organization Negotiations on Developing and Financing Health Technologies students participate in negotiations…

This case highlights the challenges of managing externalities and sovereignty through the example of pandemic flu. Recent outbreaks of both the H5N1 and H1N1 influenza strains have illustrated that the global institutions charged with preventing and…

This case summarizes the toxic water crisis in Flint, Michigan between 2011 and the end of 2016, which followed the decision to switch the city’s public water supply from Lake Huron to the more corrosive Flint River. It outlines the factors that led to…

This case uses a role play simulation to illustrate ethical implications when research practices violate cultural taboos and norms. In Who Owns Your Story? the Trilanyi – a fictional Native American tribe based on a real community that is not…

This case follows the vaccine development for Meningitis A, a disease that routinely caused deadly epidemics in Sub-Saharan Africa. The case explores why such a vaccine had not been developed previously and how the creation of the Meningitis Vaccine…

This case explores the role of social media in bringing a sexual assault incident to national attention and to trial. Two popular high school athletes sexually assaulted a teenage girl at a party. Despite evidence of their guilt based on their own boasts…

This case explores the national, global, and social media response to a woman’s brutal rape in India in late 2012. The young woman was raped by strangers while taking a private bus after attending an event with a male friend, and subsequently died from…

This case examines the United Nations’ reactions to the cholera epidemic in Haiti and illuminates contemporary gaps in global governance. In January, 2010, an earthquake devastated Haiti, the poorest country in the Western Hemisphere. The public…

This case traces the story of Malala Yousafzai who has advocated passionately for girls’ right to education. In October 2012, a militant group with ties to the Taliban shot 14-year-old Yousafzai in the head as she was riding the school bus home after a…

This case tracks Dr. Sam Thenya’s challenges in establishing and sustaining two Kenyan health organizations for women’s health. Thenya founded the Gender Violence Recovery Centre (GVRC) and the Nairobi Women’s Hospital (NWH) Medical Training College. In…