The 10th Annual APRU Global Health Virtual Case Competition 2025
Case competitions are increasingly popular around the world as a way for students to exercise critical thinking skills using a “real-world” challenge. For this international, virtual competition, teams of 3–6 students will receive a challenge relating to a pressing global health problem. Teams will be given up to 12 weeks to prepare a video of up to 10 minutes in English proposing a realistic, well-designed, innovative solution to the challenge. Teams will save their videos on video-sharing websites and submit the links for judging by an international panel of APRU Global Health Program members and other global expert judges.
The Virtual Case Competition 2025 is supported by data.org and organised in partnership with Universiti Malaya, United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) and Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO). Three videos will be selected for the final round at the APRU Global Health Conference 2025 on October 28–31, 2025, in Kuala Lumpur. The winning team will be announced at the conference, and a prize of US$1,000 will be awarded. All students who participate will receive a certificate of participation via email.
Challenge of the Year
“Advancing Inclusive Growth in Southeast Asia by Leveraging Data and AI for Food Security”
Due to urbanization, growing populations, conflict, climate change, rising cost of living, and declining food production, food insecurity is expected to rise in the coming years. Your team has been asked to work with one national government in Southeast Asia to inform the development of a five-year strategic plan to address food insecurity through a food systems approach. Previous attempts to address food insecurity have used a siloed way of thinking that failed to take into consideration the complex, interconnected issues and different dimensions of food insecurity. This nation’s government aims to collaborate with many stakeholders on the design of new policies and programs. However, convening and collecting data from many stakeholders can be very resource-intensive. Therefore, this government wants to employ the power of artificial intelligence (AI) but acknowledges the limitations of AI, including the shortcomings of the data currently available. In this challenge, your team is tasked with conducting a detailed analysis and critique of the existing data available on one dimension of food insecurity in one Southeast Asian nation, as well as a plan to collect new, more inclusive data.
Download Challenge of the Year 2025 Document
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Finalists
This year, 110 teams from 13 economies across the Asia-Pacific region have registered. Below are the shortlisted teams. The winner will be announced at the APRU Global Health Conference 2025
Finalists (in no particular order)
Team Sustainabite
Universitas Indonesia
APRU Global Health Case 2025 Team Sustainabite
Team SEED
National University of Singapore
APRU-SEED
Team HeaLink
Universitas Indonesia
Strengthening Food Availability in Indonesia Through the Integration of Field Data and AI | APRU
Other Top 10 Teams (in no particular order)
The University of Sydney, Byte to Bite
Universitas Indonesia, Nutri-Z
UC Irvine, PeterCare Tech
Universiti Malaya, Plantelligence
Nanyang Technological University/National University of Singapore/University of Indonesia, CULTIV8
National University of Singapore, FEASTN
Nanyang Technological University, SustAInable Bites