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First-Year
Health Administration Case Competition

       The Ohio State University First-Year Health Administration Case Competition provides first-year graduate students from health administration programs across the country an opportunity to put what they have learned into practice with a real-life case. It is designed to be a superb supplementary exercise to the graduate school experience, especially for first year students, who often do not have the chance to participate in case competitions. Our case competition is capped at 24 teams. 
 
This is the only health administration case competition in the country that is organized, coordinated, and executed solely by students. The Association for Future Healthcare Executives (AFHE) is the student group that is responsible for the planning and execution of the event. The Ohio State University is very proud of the effort made by its MHA students to put on this annual event, and of how the case competition has grown every year to include more top-tier programs and schools. This year's case competition will allow teams an opportunity  to present their recommendations before a national team of judges who are all working professionals in fields related to health administration.

Thanks to generous OSU MHA alumni contributions, we are now awarding 1st, 2nd, 3rd, AND 4th place! 

1st place: $6,000

2nd place: $4,500

3rd place: $3,000

4th place: $1,500

Questions?

Email us at MHA-CaseComp@osu.edu

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15th Annual
Case Comp Details

March 26-27th, 2026

The Fawcett Center

Located on OSU's campus. Teams will receive a link to book in our hotel room block upon registering.

Rooms are limited. 

Registration opens 01/05/26 at 10:00am

Case Comp is limited to 24 teams of 3 first-year students.

Registration Link will be available soon!

  

Contact: MHA-CaseComp@osu.edu 

Meet the Leadership Team

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Annabelle Dolney

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Chair, Case Competition

MHA '26

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Roxanna Irani

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Finance Director, Case Competition

MHA '26

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Victoria Leonard

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LDS Director, Case Competition

MHA '26

Leadership

Case Comp Leadership Team
Aside from Advisors, every member is a 1st or 2nd year MHA student

Case Writing Committee

Chair: Christelle Bonzil

Mikayla Murdock

Judges & Gift Committee

Chair: Ava Zollinger

Participants Committee

Chair: Autumn Lueschen

Sponsorship Committee

Amanda Porter

Operations & Volunteers Committee

Chair: Anna Zomaya and Grant Mumper

Advisors

Kelly Scheiderer, MHA

Aram Dobalian, PhD, JD, MPH

Photos from LDS 2025

Past Winners

2025

1st Place:  University of Southern California 

2nd Place:  University of Minnesota

3rd Place:  St. Louis University

2023

1st Place:  Xavier University 

2nd Place:  University of Alabama at Birmingham

3rd Place:  Baylor University

2024

1st Place:  Baylor University 

2nd Place:  University of Minnesota

3rd Place:  University of Alabama at Birmingham

2022

1st Place:  University of Minnesota

2nd Place:  University of Alabama at Birmingham

3rd Place:  University of Kentucky

2021

1st Place:  University of Alabama at Birmingham

2nd Place:  The Ohio State University

3rd Place:  University of Michigan

Questions?
Contact our Case Comp committee!


MHA-CaseComp@osu.edu

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