Grants bolster MPH Program HIV-focused research capacity
The Vanderbilt Institute for Global Health (VIGH) has received two new grants from the Fogarty International Center of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to build HIV-focused research capacity with key partners in Zambia, Mozambique and Brazil.
Douglas Heimburger, M.D., MPH Program track director and associate VIGH director for education and training, is co-principal investigator of the five-year, $1.5 million UVP grant to train doctoral-level research leaders in Zambia in nutritional and metabolic complications of long-term HIV infection. It is co-directed by two MPH faculty members, VIGH director Sten Vermund, M.D., Ph.D., the Amos Christie Professor and assistant vice chancellor for Global Health, and Troy Moon, M.D., MPH, assistant professor of Pediatrics in the Division of Infectious Diseases and VIGH.