The Latest News from VIGH

The case topic of the 2015 Global Health Case Competition was “Nigerian Population Growth: Addressing Extreme Poverty through Family Planning." 

U.S. Ambassador Deborah L. Birx, M.D.

Muktar Aliyu, associate professor of health policy and associate professor of medicine. Aliyu studies adverse birth outcomes associated with maternal lifestyle-related factors (cigarette smoking, alcohol use, weight gain) and with infectious diseases in resource-limited settings (HIV/AIDS, malaria).

Contested Global Biopsychiatry: Establishing an International Partnership For Critical and Constructive Global Mental Health. Lectures and a workshop featuring Professor Nikolas Rose and other scholars from February 17-20, 2015. Funded with support from the Vanderbilt International Office, a Research Scholars Lecture Series grant, and the REAM Foundation.

Established in 2012 as a joint effort between the Division of Infectious Diseases within the Department of Medicine and the Vanderbilt Institute for Global Health, the Vanderbilt Tuberculosis Center is a focal point for collaborative efforts and tuberculosis research with an emphasis on epidemiology, clinical trials, and translational research. The Center works to cultivate and mentor junior faculty members, fellows, and students from Vanderbilt University, Meharry Medical College, and collaborating health departments and international institutions.

The Vanderbilt International Journal Club (VIJC) is a quarterly forum for faculty, residents, fellows, and medical students from all disciplines interested in international health care issues. 2015 Schedule Download PDF flyer: VIJC 2015

Every minute a child dies of malaria.  And it’s a disease that’s preventable and curable!   A special team at Vanderbilt is in the thick of the fight against malaria and other diseases—with the help of a 3-d printer.

Speaker: Dr. Sten Vermund, M.D., Ph.D. Director, Vanderbilt Institute of Global Health Monday, January 26th 12:10-1 pm Stevenson Center 5326

Please note the application deadline for all VIGH funding is January 1, 2015 for those traveling in the Spring, Summer, or Fall of 2015. The VIGH general scholarship application is available online at: https://www.vumc.org/global-health/education-and-training/funding. 

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Vanderbilt University researchers have received a five-year, $1.2 million grant from the Fogarty International Center of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to strengthen research ethics capacity in Mozambique.

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.