February 5, 2007

• A. CIRA SPONSORED AIDS SEMINARS
• B. CIRA MEETINGS/ANNOUNCEMENTS
• C. OTHER ANNOUNCEMENTS

A. CIRA SPONSORED AIDS SEMINARS

1. THIS WEEK! YACS @ CIRA Seminar
   "Improving the Quality of HIV Care."
   02/08/07, 12:00 P.M. – 1:30 P.M. (Lunch included)
   Speaker: Paul D. Cleary, Ph.D., Dean of Yale School of Public Health, Acting Director, CIRA
   Sponsor: CIRA and the Institution for Social and Policy Studies
   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
2. THIS WEEK! Director’s International Seminar
   "Towards Principles of Multidisciplinary Descriptions: Do We Need to Look for Generalizations in the Science of Public Health and Other Multidisciplinary Sciences?"
   02/09/07, 1:00 P.M. – 2:00 P.M. (Refreshments will be served)
   Speaker: Andrei P. Kozlov, Ph.D., Director of the St. Petersburg Biomedical Center and Professor of Biology at St. Petersburg State University
   Sponsor: CIRA
   Location: OIT Conference Room, Ste # 3D, 40 Temple Street, New Haven, CT
   Contact: Please RSVP to debra.tompkins@yale.edu. For further information email at the above address or call 764-4337.
3. NEW! YACS @ CIRA Seminar
   "Rapid Policy Assessment in Four Countries of the Former Soviet Union and Eastern Europe: What Have we learned so far about drug policy, policing and HIV prevention?"
   02/22/07, 12:00 P.M. – 1:00 P.M. (Brown bag lunch. Cookies and beverages provided.)
   Speaker: Zita Lazzarini, J.D., M.P.H., Division Director and Associate Professor, Division of Medical Humanities, Health Law and Ethics, University of Connecticut School of Medicine
   Sponsor: CIRA, Institution for Social and Policy Studies and the Yale School of Public Health's Division of Epidemiology of Microbial Diseases
   Location: LEPH Room 608, 60 College 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

1. CANCELED! Peer Review
   02/08/07, 2:00 P.M. – 3:30 P.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.
2. THIS WEEK! Executive Committee Meeting
   02/08/07, 10:30 A.M. – 12:00 P.M.
   Location: CIRA, Ste # 1B, 40 Temple Street, New Haven, CT
3. THIS WEEK! Interdisciplinary Research Methods (IRM) Core Meeting
   02/09/07, 10:00 A.M. – 11:30 A.M.
   Location: CIRA, Ste # 1B, 40 Temple Street, New Haven, CT

C. OTHER ANNOUNCEMENTS

1. NEW! THIS WEEK! Global Health Week Scheduled Events (2/3 to 2/10/07)
   Global Health Week at Yale aims to inspire the Yale student body to reflect upon the inequalities in the medical world and to act in a thoughtful and meaningful way to address these concerns. Through a wide variety of events, including speakers, a movie screening, performing arts, a mural on Beinecke Plaza, fun campus-wide activities, a dance-a-thon, and various panels, we hope to effectively address an assortment of global health problems that affect our world today.
   
   For more information go to http://www.yale.edu/globalhealthweek/events.html.
2. NEW! THIS WEEK! Greater New Haven HIV/AIDS Clinical Series "HIV and Kidney Disease"
   02/08/07, 11:45 P.M. - 1:00 P.M. (Lunch will be provided)
   Speaker: Mark Perazella, M.D., FACP; Associate Professor of Medicine; Director, Clinical Fellowship Program; Associate Director, Acute Hemodialysis
   Sponsors: The CT AIDS Education & Training Center (CAETC) and The Yale AIDS Program
   Location: 3rd Floor Conference Room, 135 College Street, New Haven, CT
   Contact: Please RSVP to be assured lunch: CAETC@yale.edu or (203) 737-2312
3. The Hartford HIV Forum - "Advocacy and You: Be Part of Social Change"
   02/13/07, 12:00 P.M. - 1:30 P.M. (Lunch will be provided)
   Speaker: Shawn M. Lang, Director of Public Policy, Connecticut AIDS Resource Coalition
   Sponsors: The Institute for Community Research (ICR) and The CT AIDS Education & Training Center (CAETC)
   Location: Institute for Community Research, 2 Hartford Square West, Suite 100, 146 Wyllys St., Hartford, CT 06106. Free parking on Wyllys St.
   Contact: Please RSVP to (860) 278-2044. For additional information, visit their Web site at: www.incommunityresearch.org.
4. NEW! Arts and Public Health in Action: Study of HIV/AIDS in Swaziland
   Yale Summer Session class offered in Swaziland. Application deadline: April 2
   Faculty: Rebecca Rugg and Kaveh Khoshnood
   Theater practice and Epidemiology come together in partnership to provide a vital, hands-on intervention into the HIV/AIDS pandemic in southern Africa. We will travel to Swaziland to collaborate with local artists who are using theater as a mode of discourse in the fight against HIV/AIDS; under the guidance of master teacher Ntare Mwine we will conduct theater workshops with local secondary school students; we will work in the field with local NGOs. Over five weeks, this practical work will amplify and deepen our classroom study of theater as a mode of social and political intervention and of major topics on the HIV/AIDS pandemic. In the final week of the course, we will travel to the Grahamstown Arts Festival in South Africa, where students will synthesize their learning through exposure to a wide array of African cultural production, evaluating how the work engages with the theories of art activism and public health we’ve studied. Through experiences in the classroom and in the field, students will arrive at deeply informed perspectives on the AIDS pandemic in southern Africa, and will gain an activated understanding of the issues in public health, as well as the possibilities for theatrical interventions.
   Contact: For more information and application details go to the Web site.
5. NEW! RFP Announcement: NICHD International and Domestic Pediatric and Maternal HIV Studies Coordinating Center (NOT-HD-07-008)
   The sponsor requires logistical, technical, and administrative support to maintain, coordinate, and manage a multi-site network of clinical centers conduct¬ing research on treatment, prevention, diagno¬sis, epidemiology, and natural history of HIV infec¬tion and disease in pediatric, adoles¬cent, and maternal patient popula¬tions, including both domestic and international clinical sites. The NICHD is announcing a competitive Request for Proposal for a Contractor to serve as the NICHD International and Domestic Pediatric and maternal HIV Clinical Studies Coordinating Center, which encompasses both clinical trials on the treatment and management of HIV infection in infants, children, adolescents, and pregnant and non-pregnant women domestically and internationally, including infrastructure development as well as clinical trials.
   Sponsor: National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD)
   Contact: For more information please go to: http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/notice-files/NOT-HD-07-008.html