Public Health
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VU community encouraged to practice healthy behaviors; new omicron-specific boosters available
There are many things Vanderbilt community members can do to protect themselves, as well as their friends, colleagues and fellow community members, from various illnesses. Among them is getting the new bivalent COVID vaccine booster, which targets the omicron subvariants that currently make up 99 percent of new cases in the U.S. Read MoreSep 14, 2022
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Research Snapshot: Discovery of mosquito survival tactics leaves room for new disease vector control tactics
Mosquito-borne diseases like malaria represent an ongoing global health crisis of (literally) biblical proportions. LJ Zwiebel has identified the biological factors that help female mosquitos mate, suck blood and sense environmental threats. Est. reading time: 1.5 mins. Read MoreJun 1, 2022
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Aug. 18: Vanderbilt Project on Unity and American Democracy and VUMC present ‘Vaccine Hesitancy: The Politics of Public Health in Tennessee’
The Vanderbilt Project on Unity and American Democracy and Vanderbilt University Medical Center will host “Vaccine Hesitancy: The Politics of Public Health in Tennessee,” a virtual event, on Wednesday, Aug. 18, at noon CT. Read MoreAug 5, 2021
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New study finds community activists in Brazil’s favelas play a critical role in combatting COVID-19
A Vanderbilt co-authored study of Brazilian responses to COVID-19 offers insight on the merits of social medicine while challenging widely held assumptions about traditional public health models. Read MoreJun 11, 2021
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2020 Tennessee Men’s Health Report Card: Overall improvement, work to be done
Men’s health across Tennessee is trending toward improvement, according to the 2020 Tennessee Men’s Health Report Card, but racial and geographic disparities persist. The report card is compiled by Vanderbilt’s Center for Research on Men’s Health in cooperation with Vanderbilt University Medical Center, the Tennessee Department of Health, Meharry Medical College and the Tennessee Men’s Health Network. Read MoreMar 8, 2021
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Consuelo Wilkins’ transformative public health engagement methods recognized with National Academy of Medicine election
Consuelo Hopkins Wilkins, professor of medicine in the School of Medicine and vice president for health equity at Vanderbilt University Medical Center, has received one of the highest honors in health and medicine. Read MoreNov 13, 2020
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‘This is Public Health’ virtual fair set for July 8
Thinking about a career in public health? Explore multiple public health schools and programs during a virtual event on Wednesday, July 8. Read MoreJul 6, 2020
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Chief diversity officers of the SEC to present a COVID-19 webinar on health disparities, inequities and possible solutions June 24
Chief diversity officers from across the Southeastern Conference will offer a webinar on Wednesday, June 24, exploring the intersection of race and the COVID-19 health crisis. The Vanderbilt-hosted webinar is free and open to the public. Read MoreJun 15, 2020
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New staph virulence factor
The new factor, an enzyme involved in host-pathogen interactions, may be a viable target for treating staph infections. Read MoreJun 28, 2018
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Heart disease incidence down for men in Tennessee
There's good and bad news in the new Tennessee Men's Health Report Card. Read MoreJun 14, 2017
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Free events planned for National Public Health Week April 3–7
The Vanderbilt Master of Public Health program has a full slate of free campus events planned for National Public Health Week. Read MoreMar 28, 2017
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Early experience with federal health coverage suggests how future Medicaid reforms may work
Proposed Medicaid reforms are similar to the capped federal financing system in place during the '50s and early '60s, when states generally reimbursed a much smaller proportion of health care for the needy. Read MoreFeb 1, 2017
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Dittus named to AHRQ’s National Advisory Council
Robert Dittus, M.D., MPH, Executive Vice President, Public Health and Health Care for Vanderbilt University Medical Center (VUMC), has been named to the National Advisory Council of the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ). Read MoreOct 6, 2016
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State public health award named for Schaffner
The Tennessee Public Health Association and the Tennessee Medical Association are collaborating to establish the “William Schaffner, M.D., Public Health Hero Award,” to be presented annually to an individual who has demonstrated extraordinary efforts in the advancement of public health in Tennessee. Read MoreSep 18, 2014
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Politics of Health Conference is Oct. 3-4 at Vanderbilt
The Politics of Health Conference Oct. 3-4 at Vanderbilt is a free event that will speak to the scale, urgency and intimacy of health as a critical American economic and political issue. Read MoreSep 9, 2013
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VU to map gaps in physician coverage across nation
Vanderbilt researchers have been selected to receive a national grant as part of a push to gauge the coming impact of the Affordable Care Act (ACA). Read MoreJul 19, 2012
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Mixed results define 2012 Tennessee Men’s Health Report Card
Heart disease is still the leading cause of death for men in Tennessee and cancer deaths continue to move further away from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s Healthy People 2020 goal, according to the 2012 Tennessee Men’s Health Report Card. Read MoreJun 12, 2012
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Chronic diseases in Africa topic of VUSM dean’s lecture Sept. 27
Dr. Michelle Holmes (photo courtesy of Harvard School of Public Health) Michelle Holmes, an associate professor in the Department of Epidemiology at the H arvard School of Public Health, will talk about “The Next Health Frontier: Chronic Diseases in Africa” at noon Tuesday, Sept. 27, in Light… Read MoreSep 24, 2011
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Investigator’s work leads to simpler latent TB therapy
New research on tuberculosis offers an important development in preventing the centuries-old disease. Read MoreJul 29, 2011