McMaster Global Health student places in U21/PwC Innovation Challenge competition

Aloka Wijesooriya (M.Sc., Global Health) from McMaster University, placed as a runner-up (2nd place) in the highly competitive second round (B) of the U21/PwC Innovation Challenge competition. The challenge asks students to respond to the idea of working in a world where innovation rules and automation and ‘thinking machines’ are replacing human tasks. However, in this competition round students were asked to respond to and prepare for working in a world where companies care, and humans come first. This competition round included U21 institutions from Hong Kong, Singapore and Korea, North and South America, and Canada.

Read more at Universitas21.