Global Health Emphasis Area

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Global Health Emphasis Area
Sten H. Vermund, MD, PhD Carol Etherington, RN,
MSN Douglas Heimburger, MD, MS Julie Lankford
(coordinator) Toni Hill (appointments)
Fall 2009
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Vanderbilt Institute for Global Health

• Founded in 2005 as a center-without-walls
• VIGH Mission in Global Health Prevention via
  public health and treatment via medical care,
  nested within a broader community development
  context.
• Improve health services and outcomes in
  resource-limited settings.
• Facilitate global health research, service, and
  training across the university.

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Global Health Emphasis Goals

• Facilitate your implementation of summer research
  overseas.
• Provide you a foundation for future work as
  clinicians, teachers, and researchers,
  particularly in resource-limited settings.
• Introduce fundamental principles of service,
  research, planning, and management methodology
  suitable for resource-limited settings.

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Stunted children lt5 years of age, 1980 (stunting
is very low height for age, a good measure of
chronic malnutrition)
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FAO map of poverty, proportion of population,
2005 (per capita income per day)
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Where do youall go and what do you do?
Neonatal Infections Diarrheal Diseases in
Pakistan
Pediatric Dengue Fever in Haiti
Polio Eradication in Northern India
Motor Vehicle Trauma in Rural Nigeria
Reproductive and Sexual Health Education in India
STI/HIV prevention in CSW In Guatemala/ in Liberia
Establishing a Rural Health Care Clinic Lwala,
Kenya
HIV and Syphilis in the Peruvian Amazon
Early Infant Diagnosis of HIV in Rural Mozambique
Obesity in Poor Peruvian Women
Cardiovascular Health of Children with Severe
Diarrhea in Brazil
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Global Health Emphasis 59 VMS in 25 Countries
from 2005-2009

• Mali
• Mexico
• Mozambique (3)
• Nigeria (5)
• Pakistan
• Peru (5)
• Sierra Leone
• South Africa
• Spain
• Southern Sudan
• Thailand (2)
• Zambia (5)

• Argentina (3)
• Bosnia (2)
• Brazil (2)
• (China)
• Colombia
• Costa Rica
• Ecuador
• Ghana (2)
• Guatemala (2)
• Haiti (2)
• India (6)
• Kenya (5)
• Liberia (3)

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VIGH Global Infrastructure Project Opportunities

• PEPFAR in Zambézia Province, Mozambique (14M/yr
  Troy Moon, Alfredo Vergara, others)
• PEPFAR in Kwara/Niger States, Nigeria (3M/yr
  Martina Okwueze, Muktar Aliyu)
• Cervical CA prevention in India/Zambia (NIH/CDC,
  Vikrant Sahasrabuddhe)
• HIV prevention in Chinese IDU/MSM (NIH, Han-zhu
  Qian Yujiang Jia)
• Surgery/Obs/Gyn in Nigeria (John Tarpley and Andy
  Norman)
• Anesthesiology in Sudan, Somalia, Nigeria, Kenya
  (Mark Newton)
• Centre for Infectious Disease Research in Zambia
  (34 M/year, Sten Vermund)
• Gorgas Courses in Clinical Tropical Medicine
  (Peru, April course)
• The Shanghai Cohorts, China (NIH, Wei Zheng and
  Xiao-ou Shu)

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VIGH Global Infrastructure Special Relationships

• BMC, Ogbomoso, Nigeria (The Tarpleys and the
  Normans)
• Kijabe Medical Center, Kenya (The Newtons)
• Universidad Peruana Cayetano Heredia (Eduardo
  Gotuzzo)
• INFANT Foundation Clinic, Argentina (Fernando
  Pollack)
• VCH surgery initiative in Guatemala (John Brock)
• Respiratory diseases of infants, U. of Jordan
  (Natasha Halasa and Najwa Khuri-Bulos)
• National AIDS Research Institute, India (Vikrant
  Sahasrabuddhe and Sanjay Mehendale)
• China CDC (Yujiang Jia and Han-zhu Qian)
• Tuberculosis in Peru and Brazil (Tim Sterling)
• Neonatal Research Network in Colombia (Mario
  Rojas)
• Pediatric Surgery in Guatemala (John Brock)

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Pune, India, cervical cancer screening for
HIV-infected women and others
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VIGH in Zambézia Over 13,000 Individuals in HIV
Care 2,900 on ART
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Alto Molòcué 1 of 12 districts where VU works
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Graduate Certificate in Global Health

• Students granted a global health certificate and
  transcript annotation at the time of graduation
  with 18 credit requirement
• Core Courses
• One 3-credit course Foundations of Global
  Health
• Three of four 1-credit hour courses in core
  competencies
• Global Health Research Ethics
• Informatics in Global Health
• Leadership/Management/Grant Writing in Global
  Health
• Medical Anthropology
• 6 9 credit hours of graduate-level electives
  (med school qualifies)
• 3 6 hours of a practicum / internship overseas
• Global Health Track of Emphasis fulfills this
  requirement

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VIGH Global Health Track Contact Information

• VIGH Director/Global Health Area Head Sten
  Vermund, MD, PhD
• sten.vermund_at_vanderbilt.edu and
  toni.hill_at_vanderbilt.edu
• Key Faculty Carol Etherington, MSN, RN
• carol.etherington_at_vanderbilt.edu
• Key Faculty Douglas Heimburger, MD, MS
• douglas.heimburger_at_vanderbilt.edu
• Global Health Staff Julie Lankford, VIGH Field
  Officer
• julie.lankford_at_vanderbilt.edu
• Visit our offices at
• 319 Light Hall and 2525 West End Avenue, Suite
  750

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Emphasis Going Global