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The Vanderbilt Institute for Global Health

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.

VIGH Newsletter - June 2009

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UP-COMING GLOBAL HEALTH EVENTS

Thursday, July 2, 2009, 12:00 - 1:00pm, VIGH Global Health Grand Rounds: Mark Newton, MD: "Impact of Parallel Anesthesia and Surgical Provider Training in Sub-Saharan Africa: A Model for a Resource Poor Setting"

August, Date TBD, 12:00 - 1:00pm, VIGH Global Health Grand Rounds: Daniel A. Barocas, MD, PhD and Shady Salem, MBBS: “Schistosomiasis and Bilharzial Bladder Cancer in Egypt”

Friday, September 11, 2009 VIGH Fall Open House 2525 West End Avenue, Ste. 750 Open to all. Come by and meet our faculty and staff, learn about our projects and programs, and network with others interested in Global Health.

MEDIASITE PRESENTATIONS

A catalog of past Global Health lectures are now available for viewing on the Mediasite Global Health page.

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.

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.