Clinton Global Initiative

Vanderbilt University will serve as the host campus for the Clinton Global Initiative University annual meeting March 3–5, and Vanderbilt students are invited to volunteer. Read More

With a theme of “Homecoming: Strengthening Community, Leadership and Action,” this year’s Clinton Global Initiative University meeting will tackle pressing global challenges, including climate change, reproductive rights for girls and women and protecting human rights and health equity. It will be the first in-person CGI U meeting in five years and will be held at Vanderbilt University March 3–5.  Read More

Vanderbilt University will serve as the host campus for the Clinton Global Initiative University annual meeting March 3–5, 2023, Clinton Foundation Vice Chair Chelsea Clinton announced on Sept. 20. The gathering is an opportunity for students from around the world to collaborate with influential leaders, experts and innovators on solving humanity’s most pressing problems. Read More

A team of Vanderbilt graduate students has won the campuswide Hult Prize@Vanderbilt competition, an opening round of the Hult Prize’s $1 million social entrepreneurship challenge. Read More

In an especially underserved region of western Kenya, expectant mothers requiring cesarean section are the focus of a new $2.6 million grant to Vanderbilt University Medical Center (VUMC), Kenya’s AIC Kijabe Hospital and the Kenya-based Center for Public Health and Development. Read More

A team of Vanderbilt students will compete in a challenge to find improve education opportunities for young children in urban slums. Read More

Fred Ochieng’ (left) and Milton Ochieng’. (Dana Johnson/Vanderbilt) Milton Ochieng’, a 2008 Vanderbilt University School of Medicine graduate and co-founder of the Lwala Community Alliance, will speak at two sessions of this year’s Clinton Global Initiative Annual Meeting in New… Read More