VECD Fellow Shares Research from Fellowship Year in Zambia

September 14, 2018
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News Posts, International Training Programs

Vanderbilt Medicine MD/MPH dual-degree candidate, Justin Banerdt, completed his fellowship year as a VECD Fogarty Global Health Fellow in July 2018. He spent his year conducting research focused on the prevalence and outcomes of delirium in a critically ill patient population with a high burden of HIV/AIDS at the University Teaching Hospital (UTH) in Lusaka, Zambia. UTH is the teaching hospital affiliated with the University of Zambia School of Medicine (UNZA).
Students, Vanderbilt-Emory-Cornell-Duke (VECD) Consortium, Vanderbilt University School of Medicine (VUSM), University of Zambia (UNZA), Zambia, Featured

Nutrition Research Methods Workshop Trains Faculty and Graduate Students in Zambia

April 13, 2017
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News Posts, Global Health Topics, International Training Programs

Current and past fellows, and faculty of the UNZA-Vanderbilt Training Partnership for HIV-Nutrition Research (UVP). The program is supported by the Fogarty International Center.
  
Doug Heimburger, HIV/AIDS, Zambia, UNZA-Vanderbilt Training Partnership for HIV-Nutrition-Metabolic Research (UVP), Fogarty International Center (FIC), Nutrition

Benjamin Andrews, M.D., and co-authors' publication recognized

September 17, 2015
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Publications, Global Health Topics, News Posts

Benjamin Andrews, M.D. and co-authors were recognized by the Global Emergency Medicine Literature Review Editorial Board (GEMLR) for a recent publication. The recognized publication is titled “Simplified severe sepsis protocol: a randomized controlled trial of modified early goal-directed therapy in Zambia.” Andrews provides clinical and research mentoring to Master of Medicine students at the University of Zambia.
Benjamin Andrews, Zambia

VIDEO: Researchers from the VZNIGHT program, the Wright lab and the Haselton lab develop a device to enhance existing malaria tests in Zambia

January 14, 2015
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Global Health Topics, Announcements, News Posts

https://news.vanderbilt.edu/2015/01/08/3d-printer-helps-fight-malaria-in-africa/

Every minute a child dies of malaria.  And it’s a disease that’s preventable and curable!   A special team at Vanderbilt is in the thick of the fight against malaria and other diseases—with the help of a 3-d printer.
Malaria, Zambia, Vanderbilt-Zambia Network for Innovation in Global Health Technologies (VZNIGHT)
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