Eiman Jahangir, MD, MPH
Eiman
Jahangir
MD, MPH
Associate Professor of Medicine and Radiology
Department of Internal Medicine, Division of Cardiovascular Medicine
Vanderbilt University Medical Center
eiman.jahangir@vumc.org
Global Health Research Interests: Cardiology, Noncommunicable Diseases (NCDs)
Christopher Bonfield, MD
Christopher
Bonfield
MD
Associate Professor of Neurosurgery
Director, Vanderbilt Global Neurosurgery Program
Department of Neurosurgery, Vanderbilt University Medical Center
chris.bonfield@vumc.org
Global Health Research Interest: Neurological Surgery
Countries: Peru, Tanzania
Dr. Christopher Bonfield is an Associate Professor of Neurosurgery at the Vanderbilt University Medical Center/Monroe Carell Jr. Children's Hospital at Vanderbilt, where he directs the Pediatric NeuroSpine, Neurosurgery Scoliosis and Spine Deformity, Pediatric Neurosurgical Craniofacial, and Global Neurosurgery programs. He received his MD and completed a neurosurgery residency and complex spine surgery fellowship at the University of Pittsburgh. He also completed a pediatric neurosurgery fellowship with pediatric spine subspecialty training at the University of British Columbia/BC Children's Hospital. His interests include pediatric and adult complex spine surgery and general pediatric neurosurgery, focused on craniofacial and spinal deformity surgery. He is also active in global neurosurgery efforts.
Kristen Dettorre, MD
Kristen
Dettorre
MD
Assistant Professor, Department of Emergency Medicine
Global Emergency Medicine Fellowship Director
Director, Division of Global Emergency Medicine
Vanderbilt University Medical Center
kristen.dettorre@vumc.org
Global Health Research Interests: Education and Training (Capacity Building), Emergency Medicine, Medical Education, Trauma and Injury
Country: Guyana
Kristen Dettorre, MD, is an Assistant Professor of Emergency Medicine at Vanderbilt University Medical Center. Dr. Dettorre was accepted into a 6-year B.S./M.D. program from high school and graduated summa cum laude from Kent State University. She received her medical degree from Northeastern Ohio University College of Medicine in 2006 and completed her Emergency Medicine Residency training at Vanderbilt in 2009. Dr. Dettorre was Vanderbilt's first Emergency Medicine Global Health Fellow and is now the Global Emergency Medicine Fellowship Director and Global Emergency Medicine Division Director. She was part of the core team that developed the first Emergency Medicine Residency program in Georgetown, Guyana and has continued to work clinically and teach at Georgetown Public Hospital since 2009. Dr. Dettorre also assisted in creating and continues to teach the Vanderbilt Global Health Excellence course.
Paul Blair, MD, MHS, MSPH
Paul
Blair
MD, MHS, MSPH
Assistant Professor, Division of Infectious Diseases, VUMC
paul.blair@vumc.org
Global Health Research Interests: COVID, Ebola virus disease (EVD), Infectious Diseases
Countries: Peru, Uganda
Vanderbilt-Mozambique Biomedical Informatics (VM-BMI)
In collaboration, the Universidade Eduardo Mondlane (UEM) in Mozambique and the Vanderbilt Institute for Global Health (VIGH) have partnered to establish the Vanderbilt-Mozambique Biomedical Informatics (VM-BMI) training and research program, the first of its kind in Portuguese-speaking (Lusophone) African countries, with a specific focus on HIV. BMI uses computational and information sciences approaches primarily in biology and human health. VM-BMI will have several components.
Know your Status
Building on the success of a pilot program training traditional healers to initiate HIV counseling and testing, the Vanderbilt Institute for Global Health and the University of Witwatersrand have partnered to expand healer-initiated HIV testing and linkage to care in South Africa.The study team will conduct a cluster, randomized, controlled trial comparing healer-initiated HIV counseling and testing to the standard of care in rural South Africa by utilizing an existing and trusted resource — traditional healers.
Vanderbilt-Nigeria Research Ethics Training (V-NET)
Vanderbilt Institute for Global Health (VIGH) and collaborators Aminu Kano Teaching Hospital (AKTH) and Bayero University (BUK) have partnered to establish the Vanderbilt-Nigeria Research Ethics Training Program (V-NET). The program is a comprehensive initiative that encompasses curricular development, didactic coursework, skills development, mentoring, and practicum experiences designed to build capacity for the ethical design, conduct, and oversight of genetic and genomic research in Nigeria.
Vanderbilt-Vietnam Genetic Epidemiology Training Program (V2- GENE)
The Vanderbilt Institute for Global Health (VIGH), Hanoi Medical University (HMU), and the Vietnam National Cancer Institute (VNCI) have partnered on a new training program from the Fogarty International Center of the National Institutes of Health. The Vanderbilt-Vietnam Genetic Epidemiology Training Program (V2- GENE) is an initiative to train scholars in the genetic epidemiology of noncommunicable diseases (NCDs).