Program Overview
Type: Vanderbilt Initiative Award (ViA)
Health is closely linked with social, political and economic conditions.Yet, scholars and health care professionals often focus on quantity of interventions rather than the holistic quality of impact. International organizations (e.g. USAID) have recognized the critical impact of multidimensional determinants on health and disease. Still lacking, however, is an integrated approach to measuring and evaluating the impact of public health interventions from a multi-disciplinary perspective. The most populous country in Latin America with an emerging economy and diverse, complex society, Brazil, is an important and model setting to study such questions. Vanderbilt is uniquely poised to be a global leader in shaping this conversation due to a nucleus of expertise found only at Vanderbilt, through its renowned faculty in infectious diseases and global health (specifically in HIV/AIDS and tuberculosis), Brazilian studies and survey research.
Faculty Participants
Lead Faculty in bold
Central Library
- Paula Covington, Librarian
Owen Graduate School of Management
- Bart Victor, Cal Turner Professor of Moral Leadership
College of Arts & Science
- Marcio Bahia
- Celso Thomas Castilho, Assistant Professor of History
Marshall Eakin, Professor of History- Edward Fischer, Director, Center for Latin American Studies
- Jane Landers, Gertrude Conaway Vanderbilt Professor of History
- Elizabeth Zechmeister, Director, Latin American Public Opinion Project (LAPOP)
School of Medicine
- Timothy Sterling, Professor of Medicine
- Jessica Castilho, Assistant Professor of Medicine
- Catherine McGowan, Associate Professor of Medicine
- Troy Moon, Associate Professor of Pediatrics
- Sten Vermund, Professor of Medicine
- C. William Wester, Associate Professor of Medicine