Dr. Emilio Valverde receives a GOOD Pioneers of Health Award
APOPO, a social enterprise NGO, trains Detection Rats to detect
VU Ph.D. student, Akhenaten Tankwanchi, explores the global dilemma of "brain drain in an era of increased globalization."
The past decade has seen a dramatic rise in the number of physicians trained in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) emigrating to the United States, resulting in a “brain drain” on nations in the greatest need for affordable and accessible health care. This global dilemma is explored in the dissertation of Akhenaten Tankwanchi, a portion of which was published recently in PLOS Medicine.
Age-Period-Cohort and Educational Attainment Effects on HIV Prevalence in Zambian Pregnant Women, 1994-2011
The Vanderbilt Ph.D. Program in Epidemiology presents a Doctoral Dissertation Defense entitled:
Second-year medical students present global health project posters
Top row - left to right: Ben McCormick, Shanik Fernando, Magdalena Dorvil, Trisha Pasricha, Rosie Korman, Monica Da Silva
A Doctor of My Own: The First Medical Students of Namibia a film by Trisha Pasricha - VUSM medical student
Pasricha filming at a makeshift rural clinic
Review of The Nashville Refugee Health Study
Location: Coleman Community Center, 384 Thompson Lane, Nashville
When: Friday, March 1st, 8:30am-10am
VUSM student shares his experience with a Zambian patient in the Journal of Global Health Perspectives
Brian Heiniger, VMS II student, with friends outside the soccer stadium in Ndola, Zambia, during Zambia’s 2014 World Cup Qualifier victory over Ghana on June 9, 2012
Etherington honored with MLK Award
Carol Etherington, MSN, RN and Jana Lauderdale, PhD, RN (photo by John Russell)
VIGH researchers receive grant to study family-focused approach to prevent mother-to-child HIV transmission
Researchers at the Vanderbilt Institute for Global Health (VIGH) recently received a two-year, $895,072 grant from the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, part of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to study whether an integrated, family-focused approach can prevent mother-to-child transmission of HIV—the AIDS virus—in Nigeria.
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.