Community-led health model improves maternal and child health outcomes in Kenya

Gaby Harder
July 16, 2020

In partnership with Lwala Community Alliance (Lwala), VIGH faculty member Troy Moon, M.D., MPH, provided mentorship to Vanderbilt medical student Sarah Heerboth to conduct a study assessing the level of knowledge of obstetric and neonatal danger signs among Community Health Workers (CHW) in rural western Kenya. Lwala centers on a community led health model, transforming traditional birth attendants into CHWs.
Troy Moon, Lwala Community Alliance, Community Health Workers, Kenya

VIGH awarded $3 million for building research capacity in Nigeria and Mozambique

June 11, 2020
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Grants (news announcement)

https://news.vumc.org/2020/06/09/vigh-awarded-3-million-for-building-research-capacity-in-nigeria-and-mozambique/

Vanderbilt Institute for Global Health (VIGH) has received a new research training grant and a renewal for an existing training program from the Fogarty International Center (FIC) of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to build HIV-focused research capacity with key partners in Nigeria and Mozambique. One of the $1.5 million grants will establish The Vanderbilt-Nigeria Building Research Capacity in HIV/Non-communicable Diseases (V-BRCH) Program to build capacity of Nigerian investigators to successfully initiate and implement high-quality clinical trials in HIV-associated non-communicable diseases.
Muktar Aliyu, William Wester, Troy Moon, Capacity Building Research, Nigeria, Mozambique, HIV/AIDS, Non-Communicable Diseases (NCDs)

VIGH receives grant to build research capacity in Sierra Leone

September 5, 2019
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The Vanderbilt Institute for Global Health (VIGH) has been awarded a five-year, $1.2 million federal grant from the Fogarty International Center of the National Institutes of Health to evaluate and build a research capacity program in implementation science and clinical trial management to address Ebola, Lassa fever and other viral hemorrhagic fevers (VHF) in Sierra Leone. The Partnership for Research in Emerging Viral Infections-Sierra Leone (PREVSL) will address gaps and improve existing research capacity at in-country partner institutions. 
Troy Moon, Viral Hemorrhagic Fevers, Ebola, Sierra Leone

VIGH receives renewal to expand research ethics in Mozambique

August 16, 2019
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Grants (news announcement)

Vanderbilt Institute for Global Health (VIGH) has been awarded a five-year, $1.2 million renewal of its Mozambique Collaborative Research Ethics Education Program supported by the Fogarty International Center of the NIH. In Portuguese, the Formação Colaborativa em Etica na Pesquisa or FoCEP Program is tailored to Portuguese speaking Africa.
Ethics, Mozambique, Troy Moon, University Eduardo Mondlane (UEM)

Dr. Dahn Visits Vanderbilt

May 6, 2019

Vanderbilt welcomed Dr. Bernice Dahn, Vice President for Health Sciences at the University of Liberia and former Minister of Health for Liberia, to campus on April 17. Dr. Dahn delivered a guest lecture entitled, "Building Health Systems: Lessons From Crisis." Drawing on her experience leading a country through and after an Ebola epidemic, she shared powerful lessons on the re-establishment of the Ministry of Health and the rebuilding of Liberia’s health care delivery system.  
Liberia, Marie Martin, Troy Moon

Education and Training Symposium Draws Faculty from Portuguese-Speaking African (PALOP) Countries to Vanderbilt

January 15, 2019

Last month, the Vanderbilt Institute for Global Health (VIGH) hosted a global health education and training symposium for faculty representatives from faculties of medicine of Portuguese-speaking African (PALOP) countries. Faculty from universities located in three of the six PALOP countries attended as well as an affiliated faculty member from University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center.  
PALOP, Mozambique, Universidade Eduardo Mondlane, Universidade Lúrio, Universidade de Cabo Verde, Universidade Agostinho Neto, Troy Moon, Ann Green, Featured

Featured Publication: Prevailing Gender Norms and Unanticipated Effects of a Sexual and Reproductive Health Intervention

November 30, 2018
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News Posts, Publications

Programs and interventions focused on reducing the risk of HIV and early pregnancy, improving school attendance, and empowering girls can have significant and powerful effects for adolescent girls. Simultaneously, these programs may have unanticipated effects that inhibit the program's success.
Mozambique, Ann Green, Troy Moon, Friends in Global Health, HIV/AIDS, Featured
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