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Members of the winning team are students at the Keck School of Medicine of USC, USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences, and USC Sol Price School of Public Policy. From left are Julian Cernuda, Brantynn Washington, Cristina Gago, Hrant Gevorgian and Ashley Millhouse. (Photo\/Larissa Puro)<\/figcaption>\n <\/figure>\n \n \n \n\n<\/div>\n \n\n <\/div><\/div>\n\r\n\r\n\n\n \n \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
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Students from across USC\u2019s campuses spent a week strategizing ways to improve Nicaragua\u2019s surgical infrastructure as part of the sixth annual USC Global Health Case Competition.
\nThe competition, held Feb. 14 for all USC students and hosted by the Institute for Global Health, partnered with medical charity Operation Smile and Children\u2019s Hospital Los Angeles to develop a case challenge based on the organization\u2019s experience providing surgical care in more than 60 countries worldwide.
\nThe Institute for Global Health collaborates with an organization every year to provide competitors with diverse, real-world challenges in various countries. Previous partners included the American Cancer Society; TOMS; World Health Organization and International Telecommunication Union; Centers for Disease Control and Prevention; and International Medical Corps.<\/p>\n

Cross-campus collaboration<\/h3>\n

Approximately 50 students participated, in multidisciplinary teams, from seven USC schools. The case presented a classic global health quandary \u2014 how to maximize meager time, money and support to save as many lives as possible in low-resource countries \u2014 but in a less familiar context: global surgery.
\n\u201cThe needs in global surgery have been largely unmet so finding research related to that [was challenging] because it is such a developing field,\u201d said Ashley Millhouse, a student in the Master of Public Health program. \u201cIt really has myriad socioeconomic problems attached to it.\u201d
\nMillhouse and two of her teammates, biology and MPH progressive degree undergraduate Cristina Gago and MPH classmate Hrant Gevorgian, had competed together in last year\u2019s competition \u2014 and made it to the final round.
\n\u201cWe did the case competition last year and thought it was an amazing, hands-on opportunity for us to really learn about global health companies and organizations, and have this fast-paced intensity to identify new strengths or areas of opportunity,\u201d Millhouse said.
\nThis year, their team included Master of Public Administration candidates Julian Cernuda and Brantynn Washington. After advancing once again to the final round, they won. The team will travel to Atlanta to represent USC at the International Emory University Global Health Case Competition on March 25.<\/p>\n

Global surgery partnership<\/h3>\n

Operation Smile has been providing cleft lip and palate surgeries worldwide since William and Kathy Magee founded the organization in 1982. Their son, William Magee III, MD, DDS, is an assistant professor of clinical surgery at the Keck School of Medicine of USC as well as the director of the International Research Program in the Department of Plastic and Maxillofacial Surgery at Children\u2019s Hospital Los Angeles.
\nMagee III presented a lecture during the competition about innovations and challenges of the emerging global surgery field and focused on the Global Surgery Partnership, a novel collaboration between the Keck School, CHLA and Operation Smile.
\nThe institutions joined together in 2011 to bridge academia and charitable surgery through education, research and service. The partnership\u2019s main projects include the International Family Study and Barriers to Care Study, which integrates USC students, plastic surgery residents and faculty into the etiology research and indexing of cleft, as well as defining the barriers to accessing surgical care in low-resource settings.
\nTwo-thirds of the world\u2019s population lacks access to safe surgery, according to The Lancet Commission on Global Surgery in 2015. The Disease Control Priorities Network reports 11 percent of the total global burden of disease could be treated with surgery, but currently only six percent of surgical procedures performed each year take place where people need it most \u2014 in Nicaragua, for example.
\nAs mock consultants for Operation Smile, the competitors were tasked with developing sustainable operating room systems in Nicaragua. The teams pitched ideas to faculty judges in 15-minute presentations.<\/p>\n

Classroom skills translate to real-world solutions<\/h3>\n

Millhouse\u2019s team designed the program Sonr\u00ede de Nuevo, which means \u201cSmile Again,\u201d based on Operation Smile\u2019s \u201cdiagonal approach\u201d to achieving safe, accessible surgical care through training, self-sustaining revenue, research, partnership, infrastructure and capacity-building.
\nIdentifying existing partners and initiatives locally in Nicaragua, the students presented collaboration ideas to make the most of existing resources and cutting-edge innovation. They proposed transforming plentiful and easily transported cargo containers into operating rooms, capable of being connected into a fully functional hospital. The team also proposed raising salaries for health care workers to avoid \u201cbrain drain,\u201d in which skilled workers leave their countries to seek higher wages.
\nApplying each teammate\u2019s individual skills and knowledge was key to the team\u2019s successful presentation.
\n\u201cI think what\u2019s so exciting about this competition is that it brings people from all different disciplines together and it makes us think about things that I wouldn\u2019t think of on my own \u2014 from the policy standpoint, and bureaucracy and government, as well as advocacy,\u201d Gago said.
\nFrom the public health perspective, core courses in global health and leadership prepared the students to be culturally competent and how to conduct work on a global scale, according to Gevorgian.
\nFinally, the team\u2019s strength in public administration helped convey their points.
\n\u201cIt\u2019s great to have a fantastic idea, but at the end of the day you have to make it translatable to people on the ground,\u201d Cernuda said.
\nMagee III praised the competition as an important educational exercise. \u201cLeadership and problem-solving,\u201d he said, \u201cyou only get good at it by doing it.\u201d
\nHe called on students to serve \u2014 everyone, anywhere and however they can, a message Washington said resonated with him as he prepares for his team\u2019s presentation on the international level.
\n\u201cYou can start with experiences that are very simple. You don\u2019t have to change the world,\u201d Magee III said. \u201cBut they will start to teach you about ways in which you can be innovative and think outside the box.\u201d
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