Vanderbilt Institute for Global Health (VIGH)

October 22, 2024

VUMC, Nigeria teaching hospital to study genetic risk of fibroids based on regional African ancestry

The research team will analyze existing genome-wide association study data and RNA sequencing to compare fibroid development patterns in Nigerian women and U.S. Black women, which could point to targeted therapies and management strategies for affected women.

By Kristin Centers
October 18, 2024

Curbing late-stage breast cancer diagnosis: Innovative mobile diagnostic kit aims to improve early detection in Uganda

An international team of experts, including the Uganda Cancer Institute, is developing a groundbreaking mobile breast cancer diagnostic kit to enhance early detection in Uganda, where 70% of cases are diagnosed at an advanced stage.

By Kristin Centers
June 10, 2024

Vanderbilt researchers establish biomedical informatics training program in Mozambique

Building sustainable biomedical informatics training and research capacity to address gaps in Mozambique’s national HIV response will help the country leverage newer data-driven and genetics-based approaches for personalized HIV care and molecular epidemiology of the disease.

By Kristen Centers
VUMC’s new automated biobanking system can store as many as 10 million biospecimens.
May 13, 2024

Training grant builds research ethics capacity for genetic and genomic research in Nigeria

The long-standing partnership between Vanderbilt Institute for Global Health (VIGH) and collaborators Aminu Kano Teaching Hospital (AKTH) and Bayero University (BUK) is poised to address the growing demand for research in precision medicine in Africa.

By Kristin Centers
April 25, 2024

Traditional healer-initiated HIV testing and care expands in South Africa

Developed in a region with the world’s highest HIV prevalence, this study design and intervention has the potential to impact testing uptake among a “hidden population” by mobilizing trained healers, who vastly outnumber allopathic care providers in South Africa.

By Kristin Centers
April 4, 2024

Q+A with Muktar Aliyu, MD, DrPH, MPH

Muktar Aliyu, MD, DrPH, MPH, answers questions about the Vanderbilt Institute for Global Health.

By Jill Clendening
October 25, 2023

Study to explore link between salt taste sensitivity and salt intake, hypertension and genetic variations in individuals of African descent

A new study will explore the link between salt taste sensitivity and salt intake, blood pressure, hypertension, and genetic variations in individuals of African descent.
By VUMC News and Communications
July 13, 2023

VIGH, partners get training grant to create vaccine-related research in Peru

In partnership with the Universidad Peruana Cayetano Heredia (UPCH) and the Instituto de Investigacion Nutricional (IIN), the Vanderbilt Institute for Global Health (VIGH) has received $1.2 million for a five-year training grant funded by the Fogarty International Center to establish the Peru-Vanderbilt Prevention through Vaccination Training program.
By Kristin Centers
November 29, 2022

Scheel joins Radiology with emphasis on planetary, global health

John Scheel, MD, PhD, MPH, has joined Vanderbilt Vanderbilt's Department of Radiology and Radiological Sciences as an associate professor and the department’s vice chair of Global and Planetary Health, a newly created position.
By Holly Fletcher
July 21, 2022

VIGH, VICC establish cancer research program in Zambia

Vanderbilt University Medical Center and the University of Zambia (UNZA) are partnering on a program to develop a cadre of researchers and educators to lead cancer epidemiology research and training in Zambia.
By Kristin Centers
June 21, 2022

Aliyu named director of Vanderbilt Institute for Global Health

Renowned physician-epidemiologist Muktar Aliyu, MBBS, MPH, DrPH, who is the associate director for Research with the Vanderbilt Institute for Global Health (VIGH), has been named the new director of the institute, beginning July 1.
By Holly Fletcher
June 16, 2022

Grant to help train biostatisticians in West Africa

Vanderbilt and Aminu Kano Teaching Hospital have partnered on a new program to train a cohort of highly skilled Nigerian biostatisticians to lead and supervise high-level biostatistics activities for HIV research studies in West Africa.
By Kristin Centers
June 8, 2022

Capacity-building grant trains biostatisticians in West Africa

The Vanderbilt Institute for Global Health, Vanderbilt Department of Biostatistics, and Aminu Kano Teaching Hospital (AKTH) have partnered on a new program to train a cohort of highly skilled Nigerian biostatisticians to lead and supervise high-level biostatistics activities for HIV research studies in West Africa. 
By Kristin Centers
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