January 16, 2007
Please send any information for inclusion in the Bulletin to Marina Neris (marina.neris@yale.edu) by Noon of the Thursday before the week the Bulletin goes out.
A. CIRA SPONSORED AIDS SEMINARS
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YACS @ CIRA Seminar: "Communicative Inaction: Policymakers, Media, and the Construction of AIDS."
01/25/07, 12:00 P.M. – 1:30 P.M. (Lunch included)
Speaker: Philip Alcabes, Ph.D., Associate Professor of Urban Public Health, Hunter College School of Health Sciences of the City University of NY, School of Health Sciences
Location: CIRA, Ste # 1B, 40 Temple Street, New Haven, CT
Contact: Please RSVP to elizabeth.eocaci@yale.edu. For more information or directions, please call 764-4333, email leif.mitchell@yale.edu or visit the YACS@CIRA Web site: http://cira.med.yale.edu/events/yacs.html
B. CIRA MEETINGS/ANNOUNCEMENTS
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Community Research (CR) Core Meeting
01/24/07, 9:30 A.M. – 11:00 A.M.
Location: CIRA, Ste # 1B, 40 Temple Street, New Haven, CT
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NEW! Peer Review
01/24/07, 10:00 A.M. – 11:30 A.M.
Location: OIT Conf. Rm., Ste # 3D, 40 Temple Street, New Haven, CT
NOTE: Materials for peer review must be submitted one week in advance of the peer review meeting. If you would like to have a manuscript reviewed, please contact Debra Tompkins (debra.tompkins@yale.edu). If you would like to have a proposal reviewed as part of the process of affiliating your research project with CIRA, please contact Kim Blankenship (kim.blankenship@yale.edu). We encourage you to have your proposal reviewed early in its development. The purpose of peer review is to enhance the quality of proposals and publications from CIRA scientists by allowing them to benefit from the Center’s expertise. The spirit of CIRA's peer review program is one of collegiality and respect; it is meant to be constructive rather than evaluative. Investigators use the feedback they receive as they see fit.
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NEW! Law, Policy and Ethics (LPE) Core Meeting
02/02/07, 11:00 A.M. – 12:30 P.M.
Location: CIRA, Ste # 1B, 40 Temple Street, New Haven, CT
C. OTHER ANNOUNCEMENTS
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A Silent Epidemic: Black Women Across the Globe and HIV/1AIDS
A Community Roundtable and Luncheon
01/27/07, 11:00 A.M. – 1:30 P.M.
Join New Haven and Yale community leaders and service providers for a discussion about the state of black women living with HIV and AIDS. With a generous grant from the Community Foundation, participants will also receive a free ticket to the Yale Repertory Theatre production of "IN THE CONTINUUM", a play that puts a human face on the devastating impact of AIDS in Africa and America through the lives of two unforgettably courageous women. A Talk Back with actors immediately follows the performance.
Location: Dixwell/Yale Community Learning Center, 101 Ashmun Street New Haven, CT
Sponsors: The Yale Afro-American Cultural Center, Yale School of Drama, Connecticut Women's Consortium, Dixwell/Yale Community Learning Center, AIDS Interfaith, Yale Divinity School, Student National Medical Association – Yale School of Medicine, Yale African Student Association and the Black Women's Coalition at Yale.
Contact: Dean Pamela Y. George at pamela.george@yale.edu or 203-432-4132.
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NIH Fiscal Policy for Grant Awards - FY 2007 (NOT-OD-07-030)
This Notice provides guidance to the extramural community about the NIH’s Fiscal Operations Plan for FY2007. Faced with a markedly increased number of applications and applicants for grant support at a time of flat budgets with no inflationary adjustments, NIH is taking immediate proactive steps in FY2007 to manage its portfolio of investments in biomedical research. NIH is committed to buttressing core areas of vulnerability, such as the ability of new investigators to compete for support in these difficult financial times, and protecting our investment in well established investigators with little or no other significant support. In addition, NIH is adjusting the number of competing Research Project Grants (RPG) that will be awarded, with the goal of stabilizing to the extent possible the yearly variation in number of awards that are made.
Issued by: National Institutes of Health
Contact: For more information go to: http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/notice-files/NOT-OD-07-030.html.
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Notice Regarding the Availability of Competitive Supplements to Study Sex/Gender Differences in Drug Abuse (NOT-DA-07-006)
The National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) is pleased to announce its interest in receiving grant applications for competitive supplements aimed at furthering our understanding of sex/gender differences in drug abuse. The purpose of this competitive supplement program is to increase the number of NIDA-funded investigators who conduct sex/gender analyses and take a sex/gender-based approach in their NIDA-supported research. This program is part of NIDA’s efforts to foster the integration of a sex/gender-based approach in all areas of drug abuse research.Applicants must hold a NIDA RO1 award that will have at least one year remaining at the time of the issuance of the competitive supplement award. The duration of the award may not exceed the end date of the active parent grant. The proposed research must be clearly within the scope of the parent grant.
Contact: For more information go to: http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/notice-files/NOT-DA-07-006.html.
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Latest Policy and RFA Announcements from The National Institutes of Health (NIH)
Latest Policy Announcements: http://www.nimh.nih.gov/grants/granpol.cfm
Latest Request For Applications - http://www.nimh.nih.gov/grants/rfa.cfm
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NEW! CALL FOR PAPERS! Developing World Bioethics Special Issue: "HIV/AIDS, Pregnancy and Reproductive Autonomy: Rights and Duties"
Submission Deadline: 07/01/07
The Journal invites submissions on all aspects of this special topic from a bioethical and/or legal/human rights perspective. Submissions should ultimately seek to illuminate the parameters of reproductive autonomy at the intersection between HIV/AIDS and pregnancy.
Contact: For more information go to: http://www.blackwellpublishing.com/journal.asp?ref=1471-8731
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NEW! CALL FOR ABSTRACTS! Fifth National HIV Prevention Conference: Promoting Synergy Between Science and Program
The CDC joins other governmental and non-governmental partners in announcing a call for abstracts highlighting HIV prevention in the United States. Online submission is available through the conference Web site. Abstracts may also be submit¬ted via mail, but must be postmarked by April 9, 2007. Abstracts submitted electronically must be received by April 16, 2007. Please note that abstracts are to be submitted in English only.
For more information about abstract submission or other questions regarding the conference please visit the conference Web site: www.2007NHPC.org or call the conference hotline at: 800.772.8232. You may also contact them via email at: info@2007NHPC.org.
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| CIRA BULLETIN |
Check the latest CIRA news, meetings & announcements.
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| YACS@CIRA |
Did you miss any of our '07-'08 YACS@CIRA seminars? Archived Webcasts are available for streaming along with PowerPoint slides for each presentation.
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| GRANT OPPORTUNITIES |
The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation is now accepting grant proposals for the first round of Grand Challenges Explorations, a new $100 million global health initiative.
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| CORE SERVICES |
CIRA's Core Services are aimed at encouraging the development of new scientists conducting HIV prevention research and enhancing the quality of new and ongoing HIV prevention research at Yale.
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