# Vanderbilt-Emory-Cornell-Duke Consortium for Global Health Fellows (VECDor)

> **NIH NIH D43** · VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER · 2020 · $107,210

## Abstract

PROJECT SUMMARY
The VECDor Global Health Training Program (GHTP) comprises four outstanding institutions – Vanderbilt (V),
Emory (E), Cornell (C), and Duke (D) – collectively, VECD – with decades-long global partnerships with
premier LMIC research institutions in Africa (Kenya, Zambia, Tanzania, Mozambique, Ethiopia, Ghana,
Nigeria, Rwanda), Asia (India, Vietnam), Latin America (Honduras, Nicaragua, Guatemala), and the
Caribbean (Haiti). Collectively, VECDor's well-funded research portfolio encompasses diverse and
complementary topics in communicable and non-communicable diseases (NCDs). All VECDor institutions have
made substantial investments in global health training, which will continue to provide maximal leveraging of
NIH resources. VECDor institutions and faculty have a long history of global engagement, investigative
accomplishment, and mentoring excellence, evidenced by successfully deploying and mentoring 87 VECDor
highly productive trainees from 2012-2017. Using a highly efficient support center that maximizes the direction
of funds to research training, and leveraging multiple sources of financial and in-kind co-funding, we will link
with T32 and other NIH-funded training programs and with minority institution partners to select and
deploy 80 to 100 US and LMIC trainees from 2017-2022 with outstanding promise for research careers.
VECDor will implement a strategic mentoring and trainee support plan across the consortium, including a
substantial preparation phase prior to field deployment and continuing after the research year is
completed, to ensure the highest quality research publications and scientific meeting presentations and
maximum trainee success in obtaining research and career development grants. Research themes will
address all topic and geographical areas of interest to trainees and NIH Institutes and Centers. We will
document the Program's impact through a long-term monitoring and evaluation (M&E) plan that tracks the
career directions and outputs of all trainees and will further refine our existing web-based tools to share
knowledge, foster local and global networking, and strengthen and sustain clinical research skills among
global health fellows and alumni. VECDor is built on the mutual respect of our US and global partners and our
collective track record of research innovation and mentorship. Combining our extensive recent experience in
research training program management, robust research funding bases in major diseases of global
significance, renowned international research training partners and sites, and enhanced institutional co-funding
commitments, VECDor will continue to nurture key members of the global health research workforce of the 21st
century, as we have done within the incumbent VECDor program.

## Key facts

- **NIH application ID:** 10199378
- **Project number:** 3D43TW009337-10S5
- **Recipient organization:** VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER
- **Principal Investigator:** Muktar Hassan Aliyu
- **Activity code:** D43 (R01, R21, SBIR, etc.)
- **Funding institute:** NIH
- **Fiscal year:** 2020
- **Award amount:** $107,210
- **Award type:** 3
- **Project period:** 2012-07-04 → 2022-06-30

## Primary source

NIH RePORTER: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/10199378

## Citation

> US National Institutes of Health, RePORTER application 10199378, Vanderbilt-Emory-Cornell-Duke Consortium for Global Health Fellows (VECDor) (3D43TW009337-10S5). Retrieved via AI Analytics 2026-05-24 from https://api.ai-analytics.org/grant/nih/10199378. Licensed CC0.

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