Law, Policy and Ethics Core CIRA's Law, Policy and Ethics (LPE) Core fosters the development of policy and legal research and ensures that CIRA affiliated research is consistent with legal and ethical standards. The Core's specific aims include: advising CIRA scientists about broad developments in HIV-related law, policy, and ethics, and the consequences of such developments for their research; analyzing legal, ethical and policy issues that frame and/or emerge from CIRA's research and its mission; and providing a venue for scholarly exchange among faculty from diverse disciplines, staff from community-based organizations, and policymakers, on legal, policy, and ethical issues relating to HIV/AIDS prevention. Every other year, in conjunction with AIDS Science Day, the Core sponsors a major public conference on a legal, policy, or ethical topic. By organizing mini-conferences, the Core brings small groups of experts together for focused discussions on Core related topics for such purposes as developing guidelines, recommendations, or model legislation or fostering new research collaborations. In addition, the Core produces a policy update series on current topics of interest.
Core Director: Robert J. Levine, M.D.
Core Associate Director: Kim M. Blankenship, Ph.D.
Core Investigator(s): Ian Ayres, J.D., Ph.D., Edward H. Kaplan, Ph.D., Kaveh Khoshnood, Ph.D., A. David Paltiel, Ph.D.
Core Consultants: Scott Burris, J.D.
Research Associate: Amy Smoyer, M.S.W., M.P.A.
Other Member: Laurie Sylla, B.S.W., M.H.S.A.
Student Liaison: TBD
The LPE Core offers a variety of services to CIRA Affiliated Projects and Scientists, and community partners, including:
- Required ethics consultations
- Other Core consultations
- Research and preparation of policy updates and analytical studies
- Identification of policy, legal, and ethical research topics
- Assistance with preparation of grants in policy, legal, and ethical research
- Organization of mini-conferences
- Maintenance of bibliographic database
- Maintenance of information on human subjects training and protocol approval
- Listing of current relevant HIV related policies in CT
- Contact information for key CT policymakers and committees
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