Pre-Collegiate

By Rohit Saralaya, Amarillo High School, Amarillo, Texas, USA There are 1.1 billion smokers in the world. An estimated 37 million tobacco...

By Avi Patel, Stanton College Preparatory School, Jacksonville, Florida, USA The El Niño Southern Oscillation (ENSO) has been ravaging...

By Aanya Shah, Troy High School, Troy, Michigan, USA The COVID-19 pandemic has been responsible for a widespread loss of human life and...

By Melanie Sun, Mission San Jose High School, Fremont, California, USA As the leading cause of death worldwide, it seems almost...

By Jivin Yalamanchili, Northville High School, Northville, Michigan, USA A man screams; hints of gradient black strike with a speed...

By Avisha Garg, Heritage High School & Academies of Loudoun, Leesburg, Virginia, USA The most common form of dementia, Alzheimer's...

By Vamsi Nandamuri, Downingtown STEM Academy, Downingtown, Pennsylvania, USA As 4.6 million people annually add onto the world’s 51.7...

By Ajay Macherla, Downingtown STEM Academy, Downingtown, Pennsylvania, USA Multiple sclerosis (MS) is a chronic autoimmune disease that...

By Siva Bubby, BASIS Scottsdale, Scottsdale, AZ, USA Ascariasis, characterized by the WHO as one of the most common human parasitic...

By Shalen Murphy, Saline High School, Saline, Michigan, USA In 2014, Flint, Michigan made national headlines when researchers discovered...

By Asmithaa Vinukonda, Forsyth Country Day School, Winston-Salem, North Carolina, USA Since the discovery of the first malaria parasite...

By Medha Lolayekar, Lynbrook High School, San Jose, California, USA With an estimated 14 million new cases and 8 million cancer-related...

By Steven Wu, Camas High School, Camas, Washington, USA The antimicrobial resistance (AMR) crisis stems from the overuse and misuse of...

By Emma Rifat, The Bryn Mawr School, Baltimore, MD The inequity of global wealth disparity, an impediment in the efforts towards...

By Nicole Liang, Morgantown High School, Morgantown, WV Dengue fever, labeled by the WHO as the most critical mosquito-borne disease in...

By Sanjana Anand, Wentzville Liberty High School, O'Fallon, MO Dementia, a collective term used to characterize a group of conditions...