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For Dr. Rachel T. Idowu, her Fogarty fellowship in Africa helped her gain the skills needed to conduct research in low-income settings - skills that were immediately useful when she finished the program and began work at the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). 

A Framework grant awarded to Drs. David W. Wright, Frederik Haselton and Douglas Heimburger at Vanderbilt University is enabling a dozen American and Zambian research trainees to develop and deploy novel solutions for this critical issue. A new inexpensive test would improve the likelihood of detecting infection and also reduce drug resistance in the parasite by treating only those who harbor it instead of blanket-treating anyone with a fever, which commonly occurs in malaria endemic countries. 

  Muktar Aliyu, M.D., M.P.H., Associate Professor of Preventive Medicine, Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, has bee

Vanderbilt University has received a $3 million grant from the GE Foundation’s Developing Health Globally program to fund international medical education and research in Kenya and other low-resource regions of the world. 

From the bustling streets of Shanghai and Lusaka, to the dairy and potato farms of Túquerres, on Colombia’s high Andean plateau, Vanderbilt University researchers are scouring the world to reveal the secrets of cancer.

  APOPO, a social enterprise NGO, trains Detection Rats to detect

VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE

More than 25 events are planned for International Education Week beginning Friday, Nov. 8, through Wednesday, Nov. 20. 

Vanderbilt Institute in Research Development and Ethics (VIRDE), is a one-month course on grant writing and research ethics at VIGH.

NASHVILLE — WHEN men paid Shelia Faye Simpkins for sex, they presumably thought she was just a happy hooker engaging in a transaction among consenting adults.