Muktar Aliyu, MD, DrPH, MPH

Director
Vanderbilt Institute for Global Health
VUMC Endowed Directorship in Global Health
Professor of Health Policy and Medicine
Vanderbilt University Medical Center
Office Address
2525 West End Ave, Suite 725
Nashville
Tennessee
37203
Phone
(615) 322-9374

Global Health Topics:
Epidemiology, HIV/AIDS, Maternal and Child Health 

Research Interests:
Prevention of mother-to-child HIV transmission, Sickle Cell Disease, HIV

Project Country: Nigeria

Muktar Aliyu, MD, DrPH, MPH is the Director of the Vanderbilt Institute for Global Health and professor of Health Policy and Medicine at Vanderbilt University Medical Center. He holds the Endowed Directorship in Global Health. 

Dr. Aliyu attended medical school at the Ahmadu Bello University in Nigeria, and holds a master of public health degree (Epidemiology and Biostatistics) from George Washington University and a doctorate in public health (Epidemiology and International Health) from the University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB). 

He completed his residency training in occupational medicine at Meharry Medical College in 2008 and a fellowship in general preventive medicine at the Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minnesota, in 2009. 

He is a recipient of several awards, including the UAB Alumni Award for Scientific Excellence, the American College of Preventive Medicine’s Rising Star Award, and the William H.J. Summerskill Award for outstanding achievement in research from the Mayo Foundation, among others. Dr. Aliyu’s research interests include maternal and fetal outcomes associated with behavioral health risk factors and implementation science approaches to assessing drivers of sustainable, high-quality HIV/AIDS services in resource-constrained settings. 

Dr. Aliyu is an elected member of the American Society for Clinical Investigation and a diplomate of the American Board of Preventive Medicine.

Prior Projects: 

Education

MBBS (MD), Ahmadu Bello University, Nigeria
MPH, George Washington University
DrPH, University of Alabama at Birmingham
Fellowship, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minnesota

View Dr. Aliyu's list of publications in PubMed here. 

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