Vanderbilt Institute for Global Health Archive — Page 5 of 5

Close-up of a Scrabble board with red tiles spelling “HIV,” “AIDS,” and “SEX.”
June 27, 2012

Spelling out HIV risk in urban China

Research reveals clues to HIV risk in Chinese men who have sex with other men.

Overlapping printed statistical charts, including multicolored bar graphs, line graphs, and a blue-to-red surface plot; some labels and values are visible but too small to read reliably.
June 12, 2012

Making order out of ordinal data

A new statistical tool developed by Vanderbilt biostatisticians will help medical researchers make sense of a commonly encountered – but hard-to-analyze – type of data.

Microscopic cytology slide showing clusters of pink-stained cells with dark purple nuclei amid many smaller blue-stained cells and cellular debris.
February 21, 2012

‘Acid test’ for cervical cancer

An inexpensive, low-tech test for cervical cancer may be a good option for screening for the disease among HIV-infected women in developing countries.