Newly Affiliated CIRA Research

This week we spotlight the work of CIRA Affiliated Scientist, Frederick L. Altice, M.D., whose work focuses on the development and study of interventions that target the intersection between substance abuse, mental illness and infectious diseases among prisoners.

• HIV Prevention Research with HIV+ Incarcerated Populations
  Funder: National Center for HIV, Viral Hepatitis, STDs and TB Prevention
• Improving Health Outcomes for Released HIV+ Prisoners
  Funder: National Institute on Drug Abuse
• Integrating Buprenorphine into HIV Clinical Care Settings
  Funder: Health Resources and Services Administration
• Intervention of HIV, Drug Use and the Criminal Justice System in Malaysia
  Funder: National Institute on Drug Abuse
• Project CHOICES: Targeted Capacity Expansion Program for Substance Abuse Treatment and HIV/AIDS
  Funder: Center for Substance Abuse Treatment
• Project TRANSITIONS: Enhancing Linkages to HIV Primary Care in Jail Settings
  Funder: Health Resources and Services Administration

• The Center for Continuing Medical Education presents a lecture given by Dr. Altice as part of their Infectious Diseases Didactic Conference series.
  Date/Time: Wednesday, April 8th 2009 9:45 AM - 10:45 AM
  Title: Skin manifestations of the HIV infected patient
  Speaker: Frederick L. Altice, M.D.
  Location: The Anlyan Center, TAC Auditorium, N107, 300 Cedar Street, New Haven, CT
  Contact: Marilyn Powers, marilyn.a.powers@yale.edu, (203) 785-7571
• $6 Million Study Will Seek To Break Cycle of Chemical Dependence and Incarceration
  Yale Univeristy Office of Public Affairs, December 19, 2008

CIRA Sponsored Seminars and Meetings

1. NEW! YACS@CIRA Seminar Series
   
   Date/Time: 03/19/09, 12:30 PM - 1:30 PM
   Title: Promoting Sexual Health and Stress Management Among HIV+ Men Who Have Sex with Men
   Speaker: Peter Vanable, Ph.D., Dept. of Psychology, Syracuse University
   Co-sponsor: Center for Health, Intervention, and Prevention (CHIP)
   Location: CHIP, 2006 Hillside Rd Unit 1248, Storrs, CT
   Video Conference: CIRA, Ste # 200, Rm. 202, 135 College Street, New Haven, CT
   RSVP: Lunch will be included at the video conference with an RSVP to Michelle Gardin (michelle.gardin@yale.edu) by Wednesday, 03/18/09, at 12:00 Noon.
2. Peer Review
   
   Date/Time: 03/20/09 10:00 AM - 11:30 AM
   Location: CIRA, Ste # 200, Rm. 202, 135 College Street, New Haven, CT
   CIRA peer review provides an opportunity to enhance the quality of grant proposals and manuscripts written by CIRA scientists by sharing them with a multidisciplinary group of colleagues. The spirit of CIRA peer review is one of collegiality and respect; peer review is constructive rather than evaluative. Investigators use the feedback they receive as they see fit. We encourage you to have your proposal reviewed early in its development. If you would like to submit a grant proposal or manuscript for peer review, please contact Jon Atherton (jon.atherton@yale.edu; 203-764-4338)
3. NEW! Community Research (CHSR) Core Meeting
   
   Date/Time: 03/25/09 9:00 AM - 10:30 AM
   Location: CIRA, Ste # 200, Rm. 202, 135 College Street, New Haven, CT
4. AIDS Science Day 2009 - Attendance is FREE!
   
   Date/Time: Wednesday, 04/01/09, 8:30 AM - 4:30 PM
   AIDS Science Day is for everyone. CIRA wants students, faculty, researchers and community members to participate in this great event. Registration is required. Deadlines are as follows:
   
   General Conference: Friday, March 13 (Register now)
   Abstract Submission: Deadline has closed
   Community Booth: Deadline has closed
   
   Please address any questions to Sandrine Bertrand-Cadi via email, sandrine.bertrand-cadi@yale.edu, or phone, 203-785-3104.

General Announcements

1. NEW! Recovery Act Limited Competition: NIH Challenge Grants in Health and Science Research (RC1) (RFA-OD-09-003)
   
   Application Due Date(s): April 27, 2009; Expiration Date: April 28, 2009
   As part of the Recovery Act, the NIH invites, through this limited competition, NIH Challenge Grant (RC1) applications from domestic (United States) institutions/organizations proposing novel research in areas that address specific knowledge gaps, scientific opportunities, new technologies, data generation, or research methods that would benefit from an influx of funds to quickly advance the area in significant ways. This program is designed to support research in scientific areas identified by the Institutes and Centers.
   Sponsor: National Institutes of Health (NIH)
   Contact: For more information please go to http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/rfa-files/RFA-OD-09-003.html.
2. NEW! National Public Health Week
   
   Date/Time: April 6, 2009; 3:30 PM
   Speaker: Panel discussion "Perspectives on Public Health Disparities in Connecticut" moderated by Paul D. Cleary, Ph.D., Dean, Yale School of Public Health
   Location: LEPH 101, 60 College Street, New Haven, CT
   Sponsor: Office of Community Health, Yale School of Public Health
   Details: For more information and scheduled events, please go to http://www.nphw.org.
3. THIS WEEK! The 16th Conference on Retroviruses and Opportunistic Infections (CROI 2009) Post-CROI Updates
   
   Date/Time: 03/10/09 12:00 Noon
   Speaker: David Lobo, M.D.
   Location: Tuscany Ristorante, 1084 Madison Avenue, Bridgeport CT 06606
   Sponsor: CT AIDS Education and Training Center (CAETC)
   Contact: To RSVP or for more information: karina.danvers@yale.edu, (203) 737-2312.
4. AIDS WALK NEW HAVEN - APRIL 26, 2009
   
   http://www.aidswalknewhaven.org (New Web site!)
   
   You can now Register Online for the Walk!
   All registration and donations can now be done via the internet as well: just click Register Now on the AIDS Walk home page or go to www.firstgiving.com/aidswalknewhaven. This year we will also feature our first 5K Run event. We will provide awards and prizes for the fastest times and Runners will be able to also participate in the traditional AIDS Walk. Check the Web site for more details to follow. In order for AIDS Walk New Haven to continue its success, we need your help!
   
   How You and Your Organization Can Help with AIDS Walk New Haven Publicity (Spread the word!) - In order to get a large showing, we need to get the word out! Please tell your friends, family, co-workers, employees, spouse's co-workers, all about our new Web site and the date of the Walk - April 26, 2009. AIDS Walk New Haven, Inc. minimizes its expenses to ensure every dollar goes to our cause in supporting the HIV / AIDS patient community, but this means our advertising budget is low so your word-of-mouth promotions are a valuable asset! To get off to a good start, feel free to forward this email around.
   
   Register as an Individual or Team - Our registration is now fully online where you can sign up for the Walk and create your own personalized fundraising page. All organizations and businesses are further encouraged to create a Team, where each member can see how their teammates are fundraising and compete with other teams to see who can raise the most. The online set up is simple, easy, and a great way to get others to donate to the cause.
   
   Donate by Shopping Online - That's right, you can donate to AIDS Walk New Haven simply by shopping online. Check out our GoodShop Web site at http://www.goodshop.com/?charityid=889135 where you can buy from over 700 stores (including Amazon, Best Buy, eBay, Apple, 1-800-Contacts) and a small portion of your purchase will go to our cause. It's free, quick and easy.
5. Community-Based Research: New Ethical Challenges
   
   Date: Thursday, May 21, 2009
   Description: With generous support from the Patrick and Catherine Weldon Donaghue Medical Research Foundation, the Yale Interdisciplinary Center on Bioethics and CARE are hosting a one-day conference at Yale University in New Haven, CT on ethical principles and guidelines for engaging community and university partners in the conduct of community-based research. This will be an opportunity to bring together representatives from the Clinical and Translational Science Award (CTSA) sites, community and university representatives of institutional review boards (IRB's), and, community agency leaders responsible for reviewing research in their agencies. The conference will be designed for active engagement of all participants in working group sessions, with concrete recommendations to meet each objective.
   Speaker: Jeremy Sugarman, M.D., M.P.H., Johns Hopkins School of Public Health and Harvey M. Meyerhoff Professor of Bioethics and Medicine
   Sponsors: CARE: Community Alliance for Research and Engagement and the Yale Interdisciplinary Center for Bioethics
   Location: Yale University
   Contact: To RSVP and for more information, please contact: Laurie Hurshman at 203-432-9736 or laurie.hurshman@yale.edu.
   The conference is free and will include breakfast, lunch, and reception. Attendees are responsible for travel and hotel expenses; discount rooms will be available to all participants.
6. The 12th Annual Summit on Adolescents and HIV: The Impact on Youth, Families, Schools and Communities
   
   Date: Wednesday, 06/03/2009
   Description: This one day conference will focus on youth, advocacy, prevention, screening, care and treatment, and is designed for the full spectrum of providers who serve adolescents/young adults in New England.
   Sponsors: Boston Happens/Children's Hospital, New England HIV Education Consortium, New England AIDS Education & Training Center, Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center, University of Massachusetts
   Location: Crowne Plaza Hotel, 2 Somerset Parkway Nashua, NH
   Contact: For more information contact Brian Abascal, Boston Happens/Children Hospital, E-mail: brian.abascal@childrens.harvard.edu; Phone: (617) 355-2735; or access the Web site: http://www.neaetc.org/events/detail.cfm?eventID=1262
   NOTE: Registration will be available at http://www.neaetc.org.
7. North America Housing and HIV/AIDS Research Summit Mobilizing Knowledge: Housing is HIV Prevention and Care
   
   Date: 06/03/2009 - 06/05/2009
   Description: The US National AIDS Housing Coalition (NAHC), working in collaboration with the Ontario HIV Treatment Network (OHTN) and the Department of Health, Behavior and Society of the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, announces the fourth Housing and HIV/AIDS Research Summit, a meeting of leading health, housing and social service researchers and policy makers. The Housing and HIV/AIDS Research Summit series is an interdisciplinary, interactive forum for the presentation of research findings on the relationship of housing status and HIV prevention and care, coupled with dialogue on public policy implications and strategies among researchers, policy makers, and providers and consumers of HIV housing and services. The theme of Summit IV is Examining the Evidence: The Impact of Housing on HIV Prevention and Care, and the conveners invite abstracts presenting the results of scientific research, program evaluation, community-based interventions, and public policy strategies that reflect this theme. Both research and policy abstracts are encouraged, and abstracts may be submitted for oral or poster presentations.
   Sponsors: The National AIDS Housing Coalition (NAHC)
   Location: Double Tree Hotel Crystal City-National Airport, 300 Army Navy Drive, Arlington, Virginia 22202. (Please call 1-866-999-8439 for reservations and reference the National AIDS Housing Coalition)
   Contact: For more information contact NAHC, E-mail: nahc@nationalaidshousing.org; Phone: (202) 347-0333; Fax: (202) 347-3411; or access the Web site: http://nationalaidshousing.org/2008/08/save-the-date/