Vanderbilt Institute for Global Health (VIGH)

April 16, 2014

Channel drug restores glucose balance

A new compound that activates potassium channels could be used to treat disorders of glucose homeostasis.

By Bill Snyder
April 10, 2014

Case competition a learning experience for VU students

A team of Vanderbilt University students in medicine, business, public health and economic development competed March 29 in an international Global Health Case Competition at Emory University in Atlanta.

By VUMC News and Communications
February 20, 2014

Aliyu to receive preventive medicine ‘Rising Star’ award

Muktar Aliyu, M.D., associate professor of Health Policy and Medicine, is receiving the William Kane Rising Star Award from the American College of Preventive Medicine (ACPM) at its annual banquet on Saturday in New Orleans.

By Craig Boerner
July 15, 2013

Defining patient retention

Vanderbilt researchers propose guidelines for defining patient retention in clinical studies – an important parameter that affects study conclusions and program evaluations.

By Leigh MacMillan
April 25, 2013

Interdisciplinary health course boosts global experience

A recent addition to interdisciplinary electives illustrates how Vanderbilt educators are working to bring future health care providers together to prepare for work in an increasingly global and multicultural world.

By VUMC News and Communications
March 27, 2013

VIGH launches program for Vanderbilt nurses in Kenya

By VUMC News and Communications
March 14, 2013

New center to focus on treating, preventing TB

Vanderbilt University has established a tuberculosis center to expand and extend efforts to improve the treatment and prevention of this often fatal disease here and around the world.
By Bill Snyder
February 14, 2013

Panel to discuss global children’s health

Experts in global pediatric health from Vanderbilt, Save the Children and the Tennessee Department of Health are set to discuss the major challenges health providers face to keep children healthy.
By VUMC News and Communications
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

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
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
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
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.
By VUMC News and Communications
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