Global Health

November 29, 2012

Record number elected AAAS fellows

Seventeen members of Vanderbilt University’s faculty have been elected fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) this year.

By Bill Snyder
November 8, 2012

Study seeks to ease HIV transmission rates in Nigeria

Researchers at the Vanderbilt Institute for Global Health (VIGH) have received a major federal grant to study whether an integrated, family-focused approach can prevent mother-to-child transmission of HIV — the AIDS virus — in Nigeria.

By Bill Snyder
October 25, 2012

Project targets sickle cell disease in Nigeria

Researchers from the Monroe Carell Jr. Children’s Hospital at Vanderbilt and Aminu Kano Teaching Hospital in Kano, Nigeria, will work on a collaborative project to study a sickle cell disease treatment for children in Nigeria.

By Christina Echegaray
October 25, 2012

HIV/AIDS-related efforts in Africa get $7 million boost

Vanderbilt University has received a major federal grant — just more than $7 million in the first year — to extend HIV/AIDS-related technical assistance and training in the rural province of Zambézia, Mozambique.

By Bill Snyder
Campus aerials. (John Russell/Vanderbilt University)
October 17, 2012

Beauchamp, Vermund elected to Institute of Medicine

R. Daniel Beauchamp, M.D., chair of the Section of Surgical Sciences, and Sten Vermund, M.D., Ph.D., director of the Vanderbilt Institute for Global Health, have been elected to the Institute of Medicine (IOM), the organization announced this week.

By Bill Snyder
October 4, 2012

Grant helps expand health care, education programs in Zambia

Vanderbilt University is dramatically expanding its health care and education activities in the southern African nation of Zambia.

By VUMC News and Communications
August 23, 2012

Bogota stint gives oral surgery resident glimpse of global need

While Benjamin Foley, D.D.S., was on a two-week surgical rotation in Bogota, Colombia, the impact of limited access to health care was as clear as the fused jaw of a 6-year-old child.
By VUMC News and Communications
August 2, 2012

VU research shines at international AIDS meet

Vanderbilt University’s Vikrant Sahasrabuddhe, M.D., MPH, DrPH, received the IAS/ANRS Young Investigator Award at the International AIDS Conference last week in Washington, D.C.
By Bill Snyder
July 26, 2012

Six VUSN, VUSM students selected for global health effort

Three students in Vanderbilt University School of Nursing’s Master of Science in Nursing program and three rising fourth-year Vanderbilt University School of Medicine students have been selected as 2012 Frist Global Health Leaders.
By VUMC News and Communications
October 21, 2009

Vanderbilt University receives $100,000 Grand Challenges Explorations Grant for Innovative Global Health Research

Vanderbilt University announced Oct. 21 that it has received a $100,000 Grand Challenges Explorations grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. The grant will support an innovative global health research project conducted by Associate Professor of Chemistry David Wright and Professor of Biomedical Engineering Rick Haselton, titled "Coffee Ring Stain Diagnostics for Malaria."
By VUMC News and Communications
May 5, 2009

Vanderbilt University receives $100,000 Grand Challenges Explorations Grant for innovative global health research by Guirong Wang

Vanderbilt University announced today that it has received a $100,000 Grand Challenges Explorations grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. The grant will support an innovative global health research project conducted by Senior Research Associate Guirong Wang, titled "Targeting TRP Channel Heat Receptors to Disrupt Anopheles gambiae Host Seeking."
By VUMC News and Communications
February 6, 2008

Vanderbilt-Peruvian partnership addresses silent epidemic of diabetes; Center for the Americas collaboration provides multi-specialty approach

Mobile cameras, high-resolution digital imaging and funding from the Center for the Americas at Vanderbilt University are among the key components of a cross-cultural pilot program to prevent vision loss in at-risk Latin Americans.
By VUMC News and Communications
March 12, 2007

Vanderbilt Investigators testing vaccine to slow malaria’s global march

Infectious diseases researchers at Vanderbilt Medical Center are seeking healthy adults to help test a vaccine for malaria.
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