March 10, 2008

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

A. CIRA SPONSORED AIDS SEMINARS

1. NEW! YACS @ CIRA Seminar Series
   
   Date/Time: 03/27/08, 12:00 P.M. – 1:30 P.M. (Brown bag lunch. Cookies and beverages provided.)
   Title: "TBA"
   Speaker(s): Crystal Fuller, Ph.D., Columbia Mailman School of Public Health and The New York Academy of Medicine
   Sponsor(s): Co-sponsored by CIRA, the 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 St, New Haven, CT
   Contact: Please RSVP to Betsy Williams (betsy.williams@yale.edu). For more information or directions, please call 764-4333, or visit the YACS @ CIRA Web site: http://cira.med.yale.edu/events/yacs.html.
2. NEW! Research in Progress Seminar Series
   
   Date/Time: 03/28/08, 2:00 P.M. – 3:30 P.M.
   Title: "Non-AIDS-defining illnesses and causes of death among TB/HIV patients in Saint-Petersburg, Russia"
   Speaker(s): Zinaida Zagdyn, M.D., Ph.D., International Trainee
   Sponsor(s): Office of International Training (OIT), CIRA
   Location: CIRA, Ste. 200, Rm. 202, 135 College Street, New Haven, CT
   

B. CIRA MEETINGS/ANNOUNCEMENTS

1. Interdisciplinary Research Methods (IRM) Core Meeting
   Date/Time: 03/14/08, 1:00 P.M. - 2:30 P.M.
   Location: CIRA, Ste. 200, Rm. 202, 135 College Street, New Haven, CT
2. Peer Review
   Date/Time: 03/19/08, 10:00 A.M. - 12:00 P.M.
   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; 764-4351).
3. NEW! Law, Policy and Ethics (LPE) Core Meeting
   Date/Time: 03/24/08, 10:30 A.M. - 11:30 A.M.
   Location: CIRA, Ste. 200, Rm. 202, 135 College Street, New Haven, CT
   

C. OTHER ANNOUNCEMENTS

1. NEW! "Toward a Political Economy of Feelings: Relationship Strategies and Enduring Risk among Urban Youth"
   
   Date/Time: 3/19/08 1:00 PM – 2:30 PM. (Lunch will be provided at 12:45 but you must make a reservation by 3/17/08 at 3:00 PM.)
   Speaker: Merrill Singer, Ph.D., a cultural and medical anthropologist, is a Senior Research Scientist at Center for Health, Intervention and Prevention and the Center for Health Communication and Marketing at the University of Connecticut. Additionally, he is affiliated with the Center for Interdisciplinary Research on AIDS at Yale University and the Center for the Elimination of Health Disparities among Latinos at UCONN. He has published over 200 articles and book chapters and authored or edited 19 books. He has received the Rudolph Virchow Prize, the George Foster Memorial Award for Practicing Anthropology, the AIDS and Anthropology Paper Prize, and the Prize for Distinguished Achievement in the Critical Study of North America. His current research focuses on health risk and relationships among inner city young adults, ethical issues in research with vulnerable populations, oral HIV testing among drug users in Rio de Janeiro, and second hand smoking among Puerto Rican families.
   Location: Family Studies Building at the University of Connecticut in Storrs (room to be determined), 348 Mansfield Rd. Storrs Mansfield, CT
   Contact: lainie.hiller@uconn.edu
2. NEW! Grant Announcement 2008: The Donaghue Program for Research Leadership
   
   Letters of Intent due May 5, 2008. Invited applications due July 14, 2008.
   
   A New Grant Program from the Donaghue Foundation
   The Donaghue Program for Research Leadership is a Connecticut-focused grant program that will support transdisciplinary teams of health researchers led by a senior investigator who has demonstrated leadership in innovative and useful health research and in transferring knowledge gained from research into clinical and/or public health practice. The overall goal of the program is to fund rigorous health research while creating opportunities for team members to learn or demonstrate new approaches to translating knowledge from research. Therefore, the grant project must contain the following three components: Research, Knowledge uptake (a Donaghue term that is defined as those processes and factors by which evidence derived from research makes its way into use to improve health) and Team building. This program was established to reinforce the Foundation's mission to support research of practical benefit and to advance the uptake of research into practice, as well as develop and expand knowledge uptake expertise among health researchers through a team model. The Foundation expects to award two grants yearly beginning in 2008 through 2012.
   Contact: For further information on the application procedures and forms, please visit their Web site at www.donaghue.org or contact the Foundation at (860)521- 9011 or email them at leadership@donaghue.org.
   
   Individuals must be invited to apply to this program. The Foundation's review of a letter of intent will determine whether the researcher is invited to apply for a grant to this program.