Policy Challenge
Applications for the Public Policy Challenge are now open.
Students enrolled in any Georgetown graduate program are eligible to apply, either as an individual or as a team of 2-5 students. Individuals will be placed on teams with other students with similar policy interests. Please contact publicpolicychallenge@georgetown.edu with any questions.
The Georgetown Public Policy Challenge tasks graduate students with developing innovative solutions to issues in the Washington, DC region. Hundreds of students have participated and thousands of dollars in prize money has been awarded through this competition since its founding in 2014, leading to the development and implementation of proposals focusing on a large range of policy issues across the District.
Georgetown School of Medicine (SOM) students Ryan Braun (M‘26), Evan Czulada (M‘25), Stefan Prvulovic (M‘27), Holly Shan (M’25) and Mana Sheykhsoltan (M‘25) won the 2024 Challenge. Their proposal, Trimming the Risk , suggested a new partnership between the DC government and local barbershops to increase blood pressure readings and connect at-risk patients with care.
Other past winning proposals have addressed assisting small businesses with purchasing property in DC, the issues young homeless parents face in the District, DC’s high asthma prevalence and ER utilization rates , a mobile clinic to supply free flu vaccinations to vulnerable neighborhoods, a skills-based job training program housed within public libraries, a workshop teaching forgiveness and reconciliation to high-risk Latino youth and a mobile-based application that directly addresses absenteeism and academic performance.