Apply now for the chance to pitch your health innovation ideas and win $4,000 at our first annual Health/Healthcare Pitch Competition!
Building on NKU’s rich tradition of community engagement, the IHI seizes the opportunity to work with communities to change and improve lives by addressing population health challenges. The Institute believes we can solve the biggest, most important health challenges facing our communities by engaging with the people directly impacted.
The Institute's focus on working together is a key piece of NKU’s commitment to forging partnerships to address population health initiatives. When we come together, we can uncover breakthrough solutions to our society's most challenging population health problems.
Working with our campus and community partners, we are making investments in health entrepreneurship, innovation, and education. We encourage our community to envision the future of healthcare and help us transform what we do to better equip, empower, and most importantly, inspire health workers of tomorrow.
August 22, 4 - 7 pm
Location: HE 505 & 515
Do you have an idea that will improve healthcare?
Apply now for the chance to pitch your health innovation ideas and win $4,000 at our first annual Health/Healthcare Pitch Competition!
Eligibility to Compete
In support of early stage healthcare innovation efforts, the Health/Healthcare Pitch Competition is open to anyone in the Greater Cincinnati/NKY region.
First place teams will receive a prize package worth $4,000!
Second place teams will receive a prize package worth $1,000!
Finalist Pitches: August 22, 2019, 4-7 pm, NKU's Health Innovation Center, Rooms 505 & 515
Deadline to Apply: July 25, 2019 at 5 pm.
Dr. Danielle McDonald is the assistant chair and an associate professor of criminal justice in the Department of Political Science, Criminal Justice, & Organizational Leadership. She is currently serving as the program coordinator for Criminal Justice. Dr. McDonald began teaching at NKU, in 2008, after teaching for two years at Plymouth State University, in New Hampshire. She has taught a variety of classes, while at NKU including: Introduction to Criminal Justice, Criminal Law, Race, Gender & Crime, Ethics in Criminal Justice, Alternatives to Incarceration, Sex, Drugs, & Crime as well as Corporate Crime. Dr. McDonald utilizes service learning and student philanthropy pedagogy to encourage students to connect what they are learning in the classroom with what they are observing and/or experiencing in the community. These community partnerships have led to students working directly with nonprofits to address the needs discussed in class. Over the years, students have given thousands of hours of their own time as well as their talent and treasure to address the needs they witnessed firsthand in their community.Dr. McDonald earned her Ph.D. in criminology from Indiana University of Pennsylvania, a M.S. from Virginia Tech in sociology with an emphasis in criminology, and B.A. degrees in sociology and psychology from West Virginia University. Dr. McDonald has experience evaluating substance abuse programming in the correctional system as well as community-based programs for prevention and post release from the criminal justice system. Her research interests include the areas of community corrections and reentry, female inmates, juveniles, mental health and substance abuse treatment programs, as well as service learning and student philanthropy.
