Global Health

November 1, 2021

Vanderbilt Health DNA podcast garners 2021 ‘Gold’ from Modern Healthcare

The Vanderbilt Health DNA: Discoveries in Action podcast has been selected by Modern Healthcare as an award winner in the 2021 Healthcare Marketing Impact Awards and was named the ‘Gold Podcast Campaign of the Year’ in the provider/insurer category.

By Holly Fletcher
October 11, 2021

Trevathan announces plan to step down from role as VIGH director

Edwin Trevathan, MD, MPH, has announced plans to step down from his role as director of the Vanderbilt Institute for Global Health.

By Holly Fletcher
October 7, 2021

Amphibians offer clues to climate change resiliency

By Bill Snyder
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.
August 26, 2021

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.

By Jake Lowary
August 23, 2021

‘DNA’ podcast Season 2 explores COVID, science and trust in communities

By Holly Fletcher
August 16, 2021

First Listen: Season 2 ‘Vanderbilt Health DNA’ podcast trailer

New episodes of the #ListenDNA podcast series drop every week starting Aug. 23. 

By Holly Fletcher
June 16, 2021

VUMC joins national effort to improve disease prediction in diverse populations

Vanderbilt University Medical Center will participate in a new federal initiative aimed at improving the use of polygenic risk scores (PRS) to predict complex diseases in diverse populations.
By Bill Snyder
May 24, 2021

Therapeutic antibodies for hantavirus

Vanderbilt Vaccine Center researchers have isolated monoclonal antibodies against hantaviruses, an emerging source of human disease with pandemic potential.
By Bill Snyder
May 12, 2021

Fauci shares lessons learned during pandemic response with Vanderbilt MPH students

Anthony Fauci, MD, chief medical adviser to President Joe Biden’s administration and director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), recently met virtually with students of Vanderbilt University School of Medicine’s Master of Public Health (MPH) program to answer questions about lessons learned during the pandemic and to share career advice.
By Jill Clendening
April 22, 2021

Vanderbilt, Zambia researchers identify predictive factors of delirium in Sub-Saharan Africa

Severity of illness, history of stroke, and being divorced or widowed were independently predictive of delirium in hospitalized patients in Zambia, according to a study published in PLOS ONE.
By Holly Fletcher
March 2, 2021

NIH grant bolsters childhood status epilepticus and epilepsy research in Nigeria

The Vanderbilt Institute for Global Health (VIGH) has received a new research grant from the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke and Fogarty International Center of the NIH to establish a large childhood status epilepticus (SE) cohort in northern Nigeria with key partners Aminu Kano Teaching Hospital (AKTH) and Bayero University, and with the Sydney Brenner Institute for Molecular Bioscience at the University of the Witwatersrand (Wits) in South Africa.
By VUMC News and Communications
February 18, 2021

VUMC investigator expands HIV research into South Africa

A Vanderbilt University Medical Center investigator is hoping to improve access to HIV testing in South Africa, where more than 7 million people are known to have the virus, by training traditional healers to perform the tests.
By Jake Lowary
February 11, 2021

Vanderbilt, Zambia researchers find delirium in hospitalized patients linked to mortality, disability in Sub-Saharan Africa

Delirium, a form of acute brain dysfunction, is widespread in critically ill patients in lower resourced hospitals, and the duration of delirium predicted both mortality and disability at six months after discharge, according to a study published in PLOS ONE.
By Holly Fletcher
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