Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute for Allergy and Infectious Disease, joined students in the Vanderbilt MPH program on May 7, 2021 to answer questions from current and former students about career development, the COVID-19 pandemic and other topics. Watch below or on YouTube.  

A new report from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and academic researchers has found that COVID-19 vaccines are 94% effective at preventing hospitalization for COVID-19. The findings are among the first to demonstrate high effectiveness of COVID-19 vaccines in the U.S. population of older adults, and included data collected from January 2021 through March 2021. The study evaluated the Pfizer/BioNTech and Moderna vaccines, the most commonly used during the study period.

Melinda Buntin, PhD, Mike Curb Chair of the Department of Health Policy joined other Vanderbilt University faculty in a virtual webinar that covered the future of the Affordable Care Act, which is being challenged in a lawsuit before the Supreme Court.  A decision in the case is expected this summer, but this discussion covers important aspects of the case, including the health economics, law and health policy implications of the case itself and the scenarios if the law is dismantled.  Watch on YouTube or in the video below.

 

by Christina Echegaray (re-posted from VUMC News & Communications) Amid the COVID-19 pandemic, children’s hospitals across the United States have seen significant reductions in the number of children being treated for common pediatric illnesses like asthma and pneumonia, according to a new multicenter study led by Monroe Carell Jr. Children’s Hospital at Vanderbilt.

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).

A Vanderbilt University Medical Center researcher is hoping a new grant will assess the ability to train traditional healers to perform HIV tests to expand access in South Africa, where more than 7 million people are known to have HIV.