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2018 Commencement Activities

This year, seven students graduated with a Master of Public Health in Global Health, and 11 received the Graduate Certificate in Global Health. The week leading up to Friday's commencement ceremony involved several events celebrating this year's graduates, including a dinner and two receptions. MPH graduates received their diplomas during the commencement ceremony on May 11 in Langford Auditorium. Congratulations, graduates!  
View photos from commencement week or read more about this year's Global Health graduates. 

VIGH Director Awarded Amos Christie Chair 


VIGH Director Edwin Trevathan, M.D., M.P.H., was awarded the Amos Christie Chair in Global Health at a ceremony on April 25. At this event, Dr. Trevathan and seven other faculty members were named to endowed chairs. Dr. Trevanthan is the director of the university-wide Vanderbilt Institute for Global Health, and professor of pediatrics and neurology at Vanderbilt University School of Medicine. Read more about the ceremony in the VUMC Reporter. 

VUSM Graduate Receives Vermund Award for Excellence in Global Health 

VUSM Graduate Dagoberto Estévez-Ordóñez, M.D., was recently awarded the Sten H. Vermund Award for Excellence in Global Health. This award recognizes the graduating medical student who has most demonstrated a strong commitment to improving the health of the people of or from a low- or middle-income country through distinguished scholarship, education, and/or contributions to the improvement of clinical care. The award was established in 2017, to honor Dr. Sten H. Vermund who was the founding director of the Vanderbilt Institute for Global Health. 

Dago matriculated at Vanderbilt University School of Medicine (VUSM) in 2013 and has participated in several research projects during his time at Vanderbilt. He will pursue residency in neurosurgery at the University of Alabama at Birmingham, with a long-term goal of improving neurosurgical capacity and care in low- and middle-income countries. 
Global Health
Grand Rounds
Mondays at 11 a.m.
2525 WEA, 8th Floor
May 21
Delivering maternal
and child health services for HIV-positive women and their children: insights from Gugulethu, South Africa presented 
by Tammy Phillips, MPH, University of Cape Town, South Africa (flyer)
May 28
Memorial Day Holiday
June − July
Summer Break
Upcoming Events  
May 17 | 5:30 p.m.
2209 Nolensville Pike
Nashville Task Force for Refugees & Immigrants: 
Panel Discussion (link)
May 18 | noon
Langford Auditorium
Combatting America's Opioid Crisis with special guest U.S. Surgeon General Dr. Jerome Adams (flyer) 
May 23 | 8-9 a.m.
Webinar
Webcast Wednesday: HIV Basics (link)
presented by Tennessee AIDS Education & Training Center
June 1 | All Day
VU Student Life Center 
2018 BRET Annual Career Symposium, 
"R3: Research and Research-Related Careers in Academia and Government" (link)
June 4 | 6:30 p.m.
TVC Conference Room 4648
Vanderbilt International Journal Club: Trauma System Development in Haiti hosted by Dr. Nicholas Carter, General Surgery Resident, Section of Surgical Sciences, VUMC (link)
June 7 | 12-1 p.m.
A-2200 MCN Conference Room 
ID Grand Rounds: “Metabolic Complications Associated with Integrase Strand Transfer Inhibitor Among Persons Living with HIV”
presented by  Kassem Bourgi, M.D.
Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Infectious Diseases 2nd Year Fellow, Department of Infectious Diseases
VIGH Calendar of Events
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