Pilot study seeks to understand and address health care worker burnout in Mozambique
October 26, 2022
Working in collaboration with Friends in Global Health (FGH), the Vanderbilt Institute of Global Health (VIGH) will collect interview data from health care workers to understand the challenges they face, the frustrations they feel, and the support they receive while providing HIV care and delivery in public hospitals. The VIGH and FGH teams will use this data to design and pilot two psychosocial interventions aimed at improving health care workers' mental health.
Martin Were joins team to develop point-of-care detection of jaundice in newborns for all skin tones
V-RAMP Conducts a Post-Award Training Workshop at Partner Site, Aminu Kano Teaching Hospital, in Nigeria
October 12, 2022
By Adeniyi Adeyemo, V-RAMP Program Manager at AKTH
V-RAMP Facilitates Research Administration Ethics Workshop in Collaboration with the VIGH and Bayero University Kano
Adeniyi Adeyemo
June 28, 2022
By Adeniyi Adeyemo, V-RAMP Program Manager at AKTH
V-BRCH Organizes and Facilitates a Grant Writing Training Workshop at Partner-Site in Nigeria
May 26, 2022
By Aisha Hussain, V-BRCH Program Manager at AKTH
With a drive to alleviate the challenge of an under-capacitated health system and meet the need for skilled clinical investigators who can generate evidence to tackle the double burden of HIV and non-communicable diseases (NCDs), the Vanderbilt-Nigeria Building Research Capacity in HIV and Non-communicable Diseases (V-BRCH) program organized a Grant Writing Workshop at the Aminu Kano Teaching Hospital (AKTH) in April 2022.
Introducing the Vanderbilt Master of Public Health, Global Health Track 2022 Graduates
May 10, 2022
Vanderbilt Master of Public Health, Global Health Track Class of 2022 (not all are pictured)
Congratulations to the 2022 Graduate Certificate in Global Health Recipients
Chase Stober
May 10, 2022
Each year, medical and graduate students prove that global health isn’t only about seeing patients. The work of improving healthcare requires work at all levels and across many fields. For this reason, the Vanderbilt Institute for Global Health offers the Graduate Certificate in Global Health, an interdisciplinary program that draws students from across campus to study global health issues through the lenses of their field of study.
Vanderbilt and Zambian colleagues establish cancer research and training program
April 19, 2022
In partnership with the University of Zambia (UNZA) and the Zambia Cancer Diseases Hospital (CDH), the Vanderbilt Institute for Global Health, the Vanderbilt Epidemiology Center and the Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center received $1.3 million for a five-year training grant funded by the National Cancer Institute to support cancer epidemiology research in Zambia.
World Health Week 2022 at VUMC
April 6, 2022
The VUSM Global Health Organization is excited to present an in-person World Health Week, taking place from Monday, April 11 to Thursday, April 14! World Health Week is a series of events dedicated to spreading awareness about global health and features panels and talks by clinicians and students involved in the field.
Monday (4/11) 5:30p-6:30p @ EBL 320/21 Internal Medicine
Capacity-building grant trains biostatisticians in West Africa
April 1, 2022
The Vanderbilt Institute for Global Health (VIGH), Vanderbilt Department of Biostatistics, and Aminu Kano Teaching Hospital (AKTH), longstanding collaborating institutions in the U.S. and Nigeria, have partnered on a new five-year, $1.4 million training grant from Fogarty International Center of the National Institutes of Health (NIH).
The program seeks to create a cohort of highly skilled Nigerian biostatisticians with the capacity to lead and supervise high-level biostatistics activities for HIV research studies in West Africa.
VIGH well-represented at annual global health international conference
March 28, 2022
Seven groups of Vanderbilt Institute for Global Health (VIGH) faculty, staff, and trainees will present at the annual international conference of the Consortium of Universities for Global Health (CUGH). Established in 2008 with a mission focused on empowering academic institutions and other partners to address global health challenges and ultimately transform global health, CUGH works to improve the well-being of people and the planet through education, research, service, and advocacy.
Grant administrators learn vital research administration skills in Nigeria
Adeniyi Adeyemo
March 15, 2022
By Adeniyi Adeyemo, VRAMP Coordinator at AKTH
Toward promoting effective leadership in grants management and research administration at partner sites Aminu Kano Teaching Hospital (AKTH) and Bayero University Kano (BUK) in Nigeria, the Vanderbilt Institute for Global Health (VIGH) organized and facilitated the Vanderbilt-Nigeria Research Administration and Grant Management Training Program (V-RAMP), Pre-Award Training Workshop in March