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

June 11, 2020
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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, Research Capacity Building, Nigeria, Mozambique, HIV/AIDS, Non-Communicable Diseases (NCDs)

Team to test app for improving HIV care for new mothers in South Africa

May 7, 2020
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https://news.vumc.org/2020/05/07/team-to-test-app-for-improving-hiv-care-for-new-mothers-in-south-africa/

South Africa has more HIV/AIDS patients than any other country and is home to the world’s largest antiretroviral program. According to the World Bank, as of 2018 the prevalence of HIV among South Africans ages 15 to 49 was 20.4%. Nearly one in three pregnant women attending antenatal care in South Africa is living with HIV. As South Africans with HIV move around the country, there is a risk they will disengage from the health care system or otherwise become lost to follow-up care.
Kate Clouse, South Africa, HIV, MHealth

VIGH study seeks to expand epilepsy care efforts in Africa

Holly Fletcher
October 14, 2019
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http://news.vumc.org/2019/10/10/vigh%e2%80%88study-seeks-to-expand-epilepsy-care-efforts-in-africa/

The Vanderbilt Institute for Global Health, with Aminu Kano Teaching Hospital, will conduct a 60-site cluster randomized clinical trial in three cities in northern Nigeria to determine the efficacy of shifting childhood epilepsy care to epilepsy-trained community health extension workers with a five-year $5.9 million federal grant, “Bridging the Childhood Epilepsy Treatment Gap in Africa (BRIDGE),” from National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke of the National Institutes of Health. Edwin Trevathan, M.D., M.P.H., Amos Christie Chair in Global Health, Professor of Pediatrics and
Nigeria, Edwin Trevathan, Epilepsy

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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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)

Fogarty renews the Vanderbilt-Emory-Cornell-Duke (VECD) Consortium for Global Health Fellows Program

December 8, 2017
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https://news.vanderbilt.edu/2017/12/07/vigh-fellowship-training-program-lands-nih-renewal/

The Fogarty International Center at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) has awarded VIGH with a five-year, $4.66 million renewal grant to support the Vanderbilt-Emory-Cornell-Duke (VECD) Consortium for Global Health Fellows Program (vecd.org).
Vanderbilt-Emory-Cornell-Duke (VECD) Consortium, Fogarty International Center (FIC), Doug Heimburger, Donna Ingles
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