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The Institute for Global Health: A Center without Walls
The Vanderbilt University Institute for Global Health is committed to advancing health and development in resource-limited regions of the world. With projects in Africa, Asia, Latin America, and the Caribbean, our approach is grounded in research, training, and service that is appropriate to the developing world, transcending borders and building capacity for successful, sustainable development.
Partnering with people in developing nations to achieve better health is not only an investment in the future of those countries, but also serves to enrich us here at home through the exchange of ideas, skills and challenges to the way we think and act. From its position as a leader on issues of impact on global health, the Vanderbilt University Community fosters the interests of scientists and investigators in a broad range of disciplines and institutions to form a world community of health research, training, service, and care. This interaction allows us to better serve all of the communities that we support, both in Middle Tennessee and around the world.
MEDIASITE PRESENTATIONS
A catalog of past Global Health lectures are now available for viewing on the Mediasite Global Health page.
Presentations include:
"Maternal and Child Health: Perspectives from Developing Countries", February 22, 2008
This symposium addressed major concerns in primary care for mothers and their children in developing countries. Click here to view information on presenters.
The Institute for Global Health Winter Symposium, January 16, 2007
The Intitute for Global Health (IGH) brings together a cross-institutional representation of faculty involved in Global Health Training initiatives being undertaken at Vanderbilt University. Click here to view presenters.
Presenter: Samuel Friedman, PhD. National Research and Development Institutes, January 9, 2007
The Institute for Global Health Fall Symposium, October 29, 2007
The Institute for Global Health (IGH) gathered a group of Vanderbilt, MMC and community leaders in global health to discuss their experiences in establishing clinical partnerships and providing service in resource-limited environments.
Hospice and Palliative Care in Ethiopia, November 8, 2007
Presenter: Wondmu Tsigerada Yisfawessen, RN, “Sister Rose” founder of Hospice Ethiopia Organization in Addis Ababa.
INSTITUTE GOALS
The Vanderbilt University School of Medicine's Institute for Global Health exists to facilitate the involvement, development and growth of collaborations aimed at addressing global health issues and problems in resource limited settings. By serving as a facilitating body for expanding the activities of individual scientists and departments across the Vanderbilt campus, the Institute expects to aid multidisciplinary research efforts in diseases of poverty, tropical climes, and health disparities in Middle Tennessee and around the world.
