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When is bug spray more than just bug spray? When it's a compound that, according to researchers at Vanderbilt University, is thousands of times stronger than DEET, works on many different insects and could very well save lives.

Twelve years ago, my husband and I packed up all of our belongings and moved to Trivandrum — a steamy, tropical town at the southern tip of India in Kerala. At the time, I was a medical student interested in studying stroke. For the next six months I dressed in a sari and walked to work on jungle roads. At the hospital, I immediately began seeing a steady stream of young patients affected by strokes, many of whom were so severely disabled that they were unable to work.

Fifth Annual CUGH conference Universities 2.0: Advancing Global Health in the Post-MDG Era May 10-12, 2014 | The Washington Hilton, Washington DC

In the 2014 Global Health Case Competition, teams proposed solutions to address road traffic injuries in urban Vietnam The Vanderbilt Institute for Global Health’s Student Advisory Council hosted its fourth annual Global Health Case Competition from February 5-8, 2014.

Walking through life together - Community HIV ART adherence in rural Mozambique Morrumbala District of Zambézia Province, Mozambique

The Vanderbilt Symposium on Infection and Immunity on April 11th, 2014 in the Student Life Center at Vanderbilt University. This symposium is co-hosted by the

For Dr. Rachel T. Idowu, her Fogarty fellowship in Africa helped her gain the skills needed to conduct research in low-income settings - skills that were immediately useful when she finished the program and began work at the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). 

A Framework grant awarded to Drs. David W. Wright, Frederik Haselton and Douglas Heimburger at Vanderbilt University is enabling a dozen American and Zambian research trainees to develop and deploy novel solutions for this critical issue. A new inexpensive test would improve the likelihood of detecting infection and also reduce drug resistance in the parasite by treating only those who harbor it instead of blanket-treating anyone with a fever, which commonly occurs in malaria endemic countries. 

  Muktar Aliyu, M.D., M.P.H., Associate Professor of Preventive Medicine, Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, has bee

Vanderbilt University has received a $3 million grant from the GE Foundation’s Developing Health Globally program to fund international medical education and research in Kenya and other low-resource regions of the world.