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Brazilian Studies Association (BRASA)

BRASA is an international, interdisciplinary group of scholars who support and promote Brazilian studies in all fields, especially in the humanities and social sciences. BRASA is dedicated to the promotion of Brazilian studies around the world in general, and in the United States in particular.

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FIPSE-CAPES

The U.S.-Brazil Program is administrated jointly by the Fund for the Improvement of Postsecondary Education (FIPSE), U.S. Department of Education, and the Fundacao Coordenacao de Aperfeicoamento de Pessoal de Nivel Superior (CAPES), Brazilian Ministry of Education.

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Guatemalan Scholars Network

The Guatemala Scholars Network is an organization of over 300 academics and professionals whose major research field is Guatemala.  This homepage is presented as part of the GSN mission to foster communication among scholars; to share information and stay informed about the situation in Guatemala; to provide a forum for Guatemalan voices to be heard in North America; and to support the renaissance of Mayan intellectual and academic activity taking place in Guatemala.

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Latin American Public Opinion Project  (LAPOP)

LAPOP's research efforts to date have produced more than 60 surveys analyzing major topics of great interest to political and social scientists, Latin Americanists, government officials, and interested citizens.

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Ecclesiastical Sources for Slave Societies

The ESSS project is producing and disseminating important new research in the humanities while establishing international facilities and collaborations designed to continue the research beyond the life of the project. As part of that effort, the project has incorporated and trained undergraduate and graduate students from the United States, Brazil, and Canada, many of whom are using the project data, and the databases they are creating from it, in their these and dissertations.

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Health Consequences of Mexican Migration to the United States (MexMaH)

The Health and Migration Survey (HMS) project examines child health outcomes and maternal reproductive behavior using new longitudinal data. Its objective is to resolve some of the contradictory results found in prior studies of migrant health and to assess the effects of migration on health among current U.S. migrants, prior migrants, and non-migrants in Mexico.

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Institute for Coffee Studies (ICS)

The Institute for Coffee Studies is dedicated to investigate the health effects of coffee consumption and to promote anthropological, historical, sociological, literary and economic research into coffee production and consumption.

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Conexión Guatemala

Conexión Guatemala is a new group of Nashville churches, schools, private organizations, and individuals with connections to Guatemala. Created by the Shalom Foundation, Vanderbilt Children’s Hospital and CLAS, Conexión Guatemala meetings provide an opportunity for all of these groups to meet together in an informal setting, without a rigid agenda, to share what they are doing in Guatemala, talk about the problems and possibilities facing the country, and to learn from one another. To be added to the Conexión Guatemala listserv, please contact CLAS at CLAS@vanderbilt.edu.

Vanderbilt Children's Hospital

Children's Hospital is committed to helping children around the world. This is evidenced by the number of our physicians and surgeons who travel to developing countries such as Guatemala, Colombia, Costa Rica, and Haiti to offer health care services to children like Joseline.  Follow their work through their "Around the World" blog.


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Vanderbilt University Press

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Vanderbilt Vamos

This program provides Spanish-language training for medical students.

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Primeros Pasos

Primeros Pasos ("First Steps") is a clinic in Guatemala that provides health care and health education to communities in need. Primeros Pasos provides over 7,000 patients a year with health care, dental care, and health education.  Their Healthy Schools program provides free health care and health education to the children of the Palajunoj Valley in conjunction with 12 local schools and 18 day care centers. Primeros Pasos also provides adults with health care, health education, and dental care. In collaboration with the Guatemalan Ministry of Health, Primeros Pasos provides vaccinations to the population of the Palajunoj Valley.  Fall 2008 Newsletter

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