VIGH Receives Grant Renewal for VECD Consortium
The Vanderbilt Institute for Global Health (VIGH) has received a five-year, $4.66-million renewal grant from t
he Fogarty International Center at the National Institutes of Health to continue a program established in 2012 with Emory, Cornell and Duke universities (VECD) that is training the next generation of leaders in global health research. The renewal grant will enable the program to select another 80 to 100 global health fellows. They will spend a year learning and conducting research in one of 17 research institutions located in 14 low- and middle-income countries throughout Africa, Asia, Central America and the Caribbean. Applications will reopen next year,
visit vecd.org for program information.Douglas Heimburger, M.D., M.S., professor of Medicine and VIGH's associate director for Education and Training, is principal investigator of the grant. Co-principal investigator is
Muktar Aliyu,
M.D., Dr.P.H, VIGH associate director for Research, associate professor of Health Policy and Medicine at Vanderbilt and associate professor of Family and Community Medicine at Meharry Medical College.
