MPH Upper Schoolers have the good fortune of being able to select Model UN (MUN) as a semester-long course (though this group of students considers itself a team, not a class!) within the daily academic schedule, as opposed to trying to “squeeze it in” among their other after-school commitments.
During first block on Wednesday, Ms. Chhablani welcomed us into her classroom to witness the MUN team preparing for a simulation—in this case one that will address the problems of disease management in Sub-Saharan Africa.
For those unfamiliar, Model UN, as the name suggests, simulates actual United Nations assemblies, in that students represent different countries (as “delegates”) and participate in “committee sessions” to discuss and debate key issues the world faces; they also work together to propose solutions. MPH’s Model UN team has proven to be quite formidable on the international stage in recent years!
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