Richardson elected Chair of the Nashville Task Force on Refugees and Immigrants
Amy Richardson, M.P.H
VIGH Staff Member elected to Nashville International Center for Empowerment’s Board of Directors
Kipkosgei Magut
Voting begins for Etherington's nomination for The REAL Awards
Carol Etherington, M.S.N., R
Registration Open for CUGH Conference
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.
Global Health Case Competition Registration is Now 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!
World AIDS Week in Nashville
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.
VIGH Faculty: Recent Publications
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.
VIGH researchers receive grant to study family-focused approach to prevent mother-to-child HIV transmission
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.
Peruvian Institute of Medicine offers Tropical Medicine course for third and fourth year medical students
La Universidad Peruana Cayetano Heredia (UPCH), named after Cayetano Heredia, one of the most eminent Peruvian physicians of the 19th Century, is located in Lima Peru. The UPCH is offering a four-week course in tropical medicine geared toward third and fourth-year medical students.
Vanderbilt researchers receive grant to study sickle cell disease among children in Nigeria
A team of Vanderbilt researchers recently received a $281,490 award from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to fund a project studying stroke prevention among children with sickle cell disease in Nigeria.
New grant extends HIV/AIDS efforts in Mozambique
Vanderbilt University has recently received a grant from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) for more than $7 million to extend HIV/AIDS training, treatment and care in the rural province of Zambézia in Mozambique.
The grant, entitled "Avante Zambézia," Portuguese for "Move Forward Zambézia," will continue HIV/AIDS efforts from 2007 initiated with funding from a prior CDC grant. The President's Emergency Plan for AID Relief (PEPFAR) funded both grants.
VIGH's Amy Richardson attends refugee conference in Washington, D.C.
The Office of Refugee Resettlement (ORR) recently hosted its 2012 National Consultation conference in Washington, D.C. The conference attracted a record number of refugee service providers, partner agencies, honored guests and attendees who shared best practices and personal stories centered on this year's theme: Transforming Hope into a Brighter Future.
University of Zambia and VIGH collaborate to build research capacity in Zambia
Dr. Sten Vermund, VIGH Director, began involvement in Zambia after attending a research needs assessment conference in 1998. Dr. Vermund co-chaired the HIV Prevention of Mother-to-Child Transmission Working Group with Dr. Chewe Luo and in 2000 he co-founded the Centre for Infectious Disease Research in Zambia (CIDRZ) located in Lusaka.
MANI+ Malnutrition Project in Guatemala draws Vanderbilt faculty and student interest
Vanderbilt Center for Latin American Studies Director Ted Fischer developed a project called Mani+ in 2008 to combat chronic malnutrition in Guatemalan children. Several teams of Project Pyramid students from Vanderbilt's Owen Graduate School of Management, led by Bart Victor, recently helped develop a business plan for the project. Sarah Roper, Hudson Baird, Thomas Davis, Jillian Currie and Robert Tauscher were among an interdisciplinary group of Vanderbilt students who contributed to the business and implementation plans.