Amy Richardson, M.P.H

Kipkosgei Magut

Carol Etherington, M.S.N., R.N.

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.

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!

Join Nashville area partners for a week of activities to commemorate World AIDS Day 2012. Daily activities are scheduled from Wednesday, November 28th through December 2, 2012.

October 2012 Publications Philip Ciampa, M.D., M.P.H., Sten Vermund, M.D., Ph.D., Carolyn Audet, Ph.D. “Comprehensive Knowledge of HIV among Women in Rural Mozambique: Development and Validation of the HIV Knowledge 27 Scale.” in PLOS One.

Anyone interested in remembering those who have passed on, those who are living with, and those who are at risk for HIV are invited to join others in observance of World AIDS Day 2012 - Nashville.

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.