School of Nursing Awards First Graduate Certificate in Global Health
Mary Martin, M.S.N.
Etherington honored with MLK Award
Carol Etherington, MSN, RN and Jana Lauderdale, PhD, RN (photo by John Russell)
Richardson elected Chair of the Nashville Task Force on Refugees and Immigrants
Amy Richardson, M.P.H
VIGH Staff Member elected to Nashville International Center for Empowerment’s Board of Directors
Kipkosgei Magut
Voting begins for Etherington's nomination for The REAL Awards
Carol Etherington, M.S.N., R.N.
Registration Open for CUGH Conference
The Consortium of Universities for Global Health (CUGH) will bring together more than one thousand committed leaders, professional educators, and students from diverse fields of study including engineering, business, law, policy, chemistry, biology, communications, nursing, public health, medicine, oral health, and environmental studies to explore, discuss, and critically assess the global health landscape.
The Fourth Annual CUGH Conference will be held March 14-16, 2013 in Washington, D.C. Registration is currently open.
Global Health Case Competition Registration is Now Open!
The VIGH Student Advisory Council is excited to announce registration for the 2013 Vanderbilt Global Health Case Competition is now open to undergraduate and graduate students from across the university!
Vanderbilt researchers receive grant to study sickle cell disease among children in Nigeria
A team of Vanderbilt researchers recently received a $281,490 award from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to fund a project studying stroke prevention among children with sickle cell disease in Nigeria.
New grant extends HIV/AIDS efforts in Mozambique
Vanderbilt University has recently received a grant from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) for more than $7 million to extend HIV/AIDS training, treatment and care in the rural province of Zambézia in Mozambique.
The grant, entitled "Avante Zambézia," Portuguese for "Move Forward Zambézia," will continue HIV/AIDS efforts from 2007 initiated with funding from a prior CDC grant. The President's Emergency Plan for AID Relief (PEPFAR) funded both grants.
University of Zambia and VIGH collaborate to build research capacity in Zambia
Dr. Sten Vermund, VIGH Director, began involvement in Zambia after attending a research needs assessment conference in 1998. Dr. Vermund co-chaired the HIV Prevention of Mother-to-Child Transmission Working Group with Dr. Chewe Luo and in 2000 he co-founded the Centre for Infectious Disease Research in Zambia (CIDRZ) located in Lusaka.
VIGH's Amy Richardson co-presents at Pediatric Grand Rounds
Pediatric Grand Rounds on 5/15/12
“Getting to Know the People of Myanmar (Formerly Burma)”