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First Annual VIGH
Global Health Symposium 

The Vanderbilt Institute for Global Health (VIGH) Student Advisory Council (SAC) will host the first annual VIGH Global Health Symposium on November 6. The symposium will be an opportunity for students who have conducted research or projects in global or public health to present their work and showcase it to the broader Vanderbilt community. 
The symposium will take place in the Student Life Center,
Board of Trust room from 5 - 8 p.m.
Learn more about the symposium and the VIGH SAC. 

Vanderbilt Medicine: Global Good

A memory of seeing street vendors selling caskets on the road leading to a hospital in Tanzania led Dr. Reid Thompson, VUMC neurosurgeon, to return last summer with colleagues. The team provided surgical care, shared expertise and learned how to do things in a different way. Read more about their experience and what they hope to achieve through a new VUMC International Neurosurgery Program.

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Chancellor's Lecture featuring Dr. Siddhartha Mukherjee

The Gene: An Intimate History

Pulitzer Prize-winning and best-selling author
Associate Professor of Medicine, Columbia University

Thursday, November 01, 2018, 6:30 p.m. - 7:30 p.m.
Global Health Grand Rounds
Mondays at 11 a.m. 
2525 WEA, 8th Floor
Oct 29
Designing for Resiliency and Adaptiveness: Lessons Learned Working with Primeroas Pasos Clinic in Gutaemala (flier)
Presenter: Brent Savoie, M.D., J.D., Assistant Professor of Clinical Radiology & Radiological Sciences, VUMC 
Nov 5
Global Health Research in Northern Nigeria: AKTH-VIGH Research Collaborations
Presenter: Dr. Aminu Mohammed, Chief Medical Director, Aminu Kano Teaching Hospital, Nigeria (flier)
Applications for the VECD Fogarty Global Health Fellowship Program for the 2019-2020 fellowship year are due November 1. 
Learn more about the fellowship and apply.  
Events Calendar
Upcoming Events and Important Dates    
Nov 2 | 8:00 a.m. -
4:30 p.m.
Drury Plaza Hotel
21st Annual HIV Symposium: Specializing Care for Special Populations
Presented by the Tennessee AIDS Education and Training Center (link) 
Nov 2 | 10 a.m. - 
2 p.m.
Saint Thomas West Hospital
Tennessee Community Health Workers: A Statewide Forum (link)
Presented by the Community Health Worker Collaborative and Meharry-Vanderbilt Alliance
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