RSS 1.0Vanderbilt Institute for Global Health
The Vanderbilt Institute for Global Health (VIGH) builds capacity through interdisciplinary global health education and training programs, conducts implementation science and research, and provides technical assistance service to government and civil sector organizations in countries supported by the President’s Emergency Plan for HIV/AIDS Relief (PEPFAR) through an an affiliated organization, Friends in Global Health (FGH). As a leader in international education and research, VIGH seeks to improve health and well being of people living in low-resource settings. Our work reflects this commitment.
Recent Submissions
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(International Journal Of Environmental Research And Public Health, 2022-12-27)As a result of the COVID-19 pandemic, as well as other outbreaks, such as SARS and Ebola, bats are recognized as a critical species for mediating zoonotic infectious disease spillover events. While there is a growing concern ...
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(PLoS ONE, 2022-06-28)Across rural sub-Saharan Africa, people living with HIV (PLHIV) commonly seek out treatment from traditional healers. We report on the clinical outcomes of a community health worker intervention adapted for traditional ...
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(American Journal of Epidemiology, 2019-12)Improvements in life expectancy among people living with human immunodeficiency virus (PLWH) receiving antiretroviral treatment in the United States and Canada might differ among key populations. Given the difference in ...
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(Journal of Clinical Medicine, 2020-01)Anthropometric indices are widely used to assess the health and nutritional status of children. We tested the hypothesis that the 2007 World Health Organization (WHO) reference for assessment of malnutrition in children ...
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(Lancet Global Health, 2020)Background Heart failure is a global public health problem, affecting a large number of individuals from low-income and middle-income countries. REPORT-HF is, to our knowledge, the first prospective global registry collecting ...
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(Global Health Action, 2020-12-31)Reducing child mortality is a key global health challenge. We examined reasons for greater or lesser success in meeting under-five mortality rate reductions, i.e. Millennium Development Goal #4, between 1990 and 2015 in ...
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(Public Health Nutrition, 2020-02)Objective: The present study aimed to examine the association between dietary pattern and the risk of high blood pressure (BP) and to estimate the attenuated effect by gender and obesity on the association using data from ...
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(Journal of Patient Experience, 2019-06)Background: The significant role of lay caregivers has been explored in chronic and acute illnesses. In pregnancy, caregivers' (eg, the baby's father, friends, and family) roles in promoting the health of the mother and ...
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(International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 2020-01)Inadequate child physical growth and cognitive development share common individual-level risk factors. Less understood is how outcomes co-cluster at the community level and to what extent certain community-level characteristics ...
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(Frontiers in Public Health, 2020-01-22)Background: Few studies of hospital-based implementation assess sustainability or collect formal implementation outcomes, in part because the emphasis is often on initial adoption and rapid cycles of improvement. The purpose ...
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(Annals of Global Health, 2019-06)Background: Contextual research evidence is needed to reduce morbidity and mortality due to chronic but preventable diseases in low- and middle-income countries. Nigeria, Africa's most populous country, is particularly ...
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(Clinincal Epidemiology, 2020)Purpose: Mortality among first-year hemodialysis (HD) patients remains unacceptably high. To address this problem, we estimate the proportions of early HD deaths that are potentially preventable by modifying known risk ...
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(Annals of Global Health, 2019)Objectives: To examine the job search, employment experiences, and job availability of recent global health-focused master's level graduates. Methods: An online survey was conducted from October to December 2016 based ...
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(BMJ OPEN, 2019-06)Methods We will review all randomised controlled trials that investigated malaria control interventions in pregnant women in sub-Saharan Africa and were published between January 1980 and December 2018. We will subsequently ...
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Epidemiological Characterists of Advanced Hepatocellular Cardinoma in the Northern Region of Vietnam (Cancer Control, 2019-07-10)Epidemiological characteristics of hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) in Southern Vietnam has been well reported as in Globocan 2018 while data from the North has still not been fully presented. Therefore, we conducted this ...
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(Integrative Journal of Global Health, 2017)Objective: Despite the availability of effective antibiotic treatment, patients in Nigeria continue to perish from complications of typhoid fever, including intestinal perforations. Given the preventable nature of these ...