Liberia

From left are Bonnie Miller, MD, VUMC; Odell Kumeh, MD, MPH, ULCHS; Marie Martin, PhD, MEd, VUMC; Bernice Dahn, MD, MPH, ULCHS; Kristina Talbert-Slagle, PhD, Yale; and Comfort Enders, MEd, ULCHS.

Capacity building activities and new curriculum strengthen medical education in Liberia

Liberia’s fragile health system is being strengthened through U.S.-Liberia partnerships focused on medical education and capacity building at the country’s only medical school, A.M. Dogliotti (AMD) School of Medicine in the College of Health Sciences at the University of Liberia.

Marie Martin, PhD, left, MEd, Kristina Talbert-Slagle, PhD, and Bernice Dahn, MD, MPH, are leading the effort to enhance Liberia’s education and health sectors.

Partnership seeks to bolster health, education in Liberia

The Vanderbilt Institute of Global Health (VIGH) is joining Yale University and the University of Liberia College of Health Sciences (ULCHS) to establish a public-private-academic hub for research utilization in the Liberian health sector and an academic network to strengthen Liberia’s education and health sectors as part of a five-year, $15 million federal project announced this week.

Partnership enhances eye care for Ebola survivors in Liberia

Vanderbilt University School of Medicine (VUSM), the Vanderbilt Institute for Global Health (VIGH) and the Vanderbilt Eye Institute (VEI) have joined forces with partners in Liberia to strengthen medical education and increase access to ophthalmology care in the aftermath of the 2014-2015 West African Ebola epidemic that killed more than 11,000 people.