NIH Training Grant Enhances Research Administration in Nigeria

In continuing, longstanding research collaborations between the Aminu Kano Teaching Hospital (AKTH) and Bayero University Kano (BUK) in Kano, Nigeria, and the Vanderbilt Institute for Global Health (VIGH), the three institutions are partnering on a new Infrastructure Development Training Program from the Fogarty International Center of the National Institutes of Health (NIH). The project will strengthen infrastructure capacity in research administration and research ethics in Nigeria.

Angela Paolucci, MPH, MA

Angela
Paolucci
Senior Population/Public Health Manager
2525 West End Ave, Suite 750
Nashville
Tennessee
37203
angela.paolucci@vumc.org

Vanderbilt Institute for Global Health faculty, alumna recognized for exemplary teaching, research and leadership

Two Vanderbilt University Medical Center faculty and a 2017 alumna of the Vanderbilt School of Medicine Master of Public Health program have recently been recognized for their global health accomplishments from the Consortium of Universities for Global Health (CUGH).

Lara Harvey, MD

Lara
Harvey
MD
Associate Professor, Division of Minimally Invasive Gynecologic Surgery, Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology
Vanderbilt University Medical Center

Global Health Research Interests: Obstetrics and Gynecology, Surgery

Countries: Haiti, Kenya

Dr. Harvey is a minimally invasive gynecologic surgeon at VUMC with an interest in global health. She was a Medical Scholar at Vanderbilt University Medical School and spent a year in Mozambique studying bleach liquefaction for sputum samples in TB diagnostics at rural health posts. She received a Master in Public Health degree from Vanderbilt University School of Medicine. She has also mentored in ultrasound techniques in rural West Nepal. She completed the Global Health Effectiveness Program at the Harvard School of Public Health during her OBGYN residency at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center. Recent endeavors include working with a group from the OBGYN department to design gynecologic laparoscopy training in Haiti. She has an interest in rural health, surgical delivery and education in low- and middle-income countries, and health policy.

Carolyn Audet expands HIV research into South Africa

A Vanderbilt University Medical Center investigator is hoping to improve access to HIV testing in South Africa, where more than 7 million people are known to have the virus, by training traditional healers to perform the tests. Carolyn Audet, PhD, assistant professor of Health Policy in the Department of Health Policy and Institute for Global Health, has partnered with Ryan Wagner, PhD, a research fellow at the University of the Witwatersrand in South Africa, to develop a novel HIV testing strategy for individuals living in rural communities.

NIH Grant Bolsters Childhood Status Epilepticus and Epilepsy Research in Nigeria

The Vanderbilt Institute for Global Health (VIGH) has received a new research grant from the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke and Fogarty International Center of the NIH to establish a large childhood status epilepticus (SE) cohort in northern Nigeria with key partners Aminu Kano Teaching Hospital (AKTH) and Bayero University, and with the Sydney Brenner Institute for Molecular Bioscience at the University of the Witwatersrand (Wits) in South Africa.

John Paul Rohde, MD, FAAEM

John Paul
Rohde
MD, FAAEM
Director
Division of Global Emergency Medicine
Assistant Professor
Emergency Medicine
john.p.rohde@vumc.org

Dr. Rohde has interests in global health, education, patient experience, and medical ethics. He currently serves as the Director of the Division of Global Emergency Medicine whose 7 faculty and 1 fellow focus their efforts on a longstanding emergency medicine development project in Guyana, South America. In the Vanderbilt Adult ED, Dr. Rohde is the physician Director for Patient Experience, working closely with the Patient Relations team to advocate for patient centered care. Other projects have included his time as a Vanderbilt Stahlman Scholar for Bioethics and Society, during which his project explored the sources of moral distress in the hospital emergency department. He also served as a Master Clinical Teacher for the Vanderbilt School of Medicine.

Dr. Rohde is a graduate of the University of Texas Medical School in San Antonio. He completed his residency in Emergency Medicine at Vanderbilt and then served as Chief Resident. After leaving Vanderbilt for Houston Texas where he combining the practice of community Emergency Medicine with an academic role as Clinical Assistant Professor of Emergency Medicine at the University of Texas Health Sciences Center, Dr. Rohde returned to Vanderbilt to join the faculty in 2005.

John A. Graves, PhD

John A.
Graves
Associate Professor
Health Policy
Vanderbilt University Medical Center

Research Interests: Health Care Reform, Medicaid Expansion, Personalized Medicine

John A. Graves, Ph.D., is an assistant professor at Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, where he holds appointments in the Department of Preventive Medicine and the Department of Medicine. He is also an affiliate of the Institute of Medicine and Public Health and the Center for Health Services Research at Vanderbilt University Medical Center.

Graves' research spans the intersection of health policy, health economics, statistics, and health services research.  His primary research focus is on developing, implementing, and evaluating health care reforms at the state and federal levels. In addition, his current research portfolio also includes projects on insurance dynamics, microsimulation methods for state and federal budgeting, and estimating the returns to medical spending in the United States.

Education

PhD, Harvard University 
B.A., Sewanee, University of the South

john.graves@vumc.org