EAT, DRINK AND BE CARING

Thursday, April 30, All Day

This will be the 3rd annual Dining Out for Life to benefit AIDS Project New Haven. If you dine at one of the participating restaurants, at least 25% of your check will be donated to support the work of AIDS Project New Haven.

Dining Out for Life is an international event that has raised over $4.5 million since 1990 to help AIDS service organizations.

For more information, please go to http://www.diningoutforlife.com/newhaven.

CIRA Sponsored Seminars and Meetings

1. THIS WEEK! Clinical and Health Services Research Core Meeting
   
   Date/Time: 04/30/09, 4:00 PM - 5:30 PM
   Location: CIRA, Ste # 200, Rm. 202, 135 College Street, New Haven, CT
2. THIS WEEK! Peer Review
   
   Date/Time: 05/01/09, 10:00 AM - 11:30 AM
   Location: CIRA, Ste # 200, Rm. 202, 135 College Street, New Haven, CT
   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. Career Development Consultation
   
   Date/Time: 05/06/09, 10:00 AM - 12:00 Noon
   Location: CIRA, Ste # 200, Rm. 202, 135 College Street, New Haven, CT
4. NEW! Community Research Partnership Program (CRPP) Review
   
   Date/Time: 05/07/09, 11:00 AM - 12:00 Noon
   Location: CIRA, Ste # 200, Rm. 223, 135 College Street, New Haven, CT
5. NEW! YACS@CIRA Seminar Series
   
   Date/Time: 05/07/09, 12:00 Noon - 1:30 PM (Lunch Included)
   Title: "Implications of Syndemics & Strengths on Increasing the Effectiveness of HIV Prevention among Gay Men"
   Speaker: Ron Stall, Ph.D., M.P.H., Professor & Chair, Deptartment of Behavioral & Community Health Services, University of Pittsburgh
   Location: CIRA, Ste # 200, Rm. 202, 135 College Street, New Haven, CT
   Video Conference: CHIP (UConn), Ryan Refectory, 2006 Hillside Rd Unit 1248, Storrs, CT RSVP: Please RSVP to Michelle Gardin (203-764-4347) by May 6.
6. Interdisciplinary Research Methods Core Meeting
   
   Date/Time: 05/08/09, 1:00 PM - 2:30 PM
   Location: CIRA, Ste # 200, Rm. 202, 135 College Street, New Haven, CT
7. NEW! Peer Review
   
   Date/Time: 05/13/09, 2:00 PM - 3:30 PM
   Location: CIRA, Ste # 200, Rm. 202, 135 College Street, New Haven, CT
   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)

General Announcements

1. THIS WEEK! Symposium: "Health Care Reform: The State of the Debate"
   
   Date/Time: 04/28/09, 3:00 PM - 5:00 PM
   Health care reform is a leading issue of American health policy. Reform will be difficult and controversial, and at this point uncertain in its outcome. President Obama has put it high on his list of policy initiatives and there is every expectation that bills will shortly be introduced in Congress. This symposium will examine where the country and Congress presently stand on reform. The symposium will also mark the first event at Yale of the newly established Yale-Hastings Program in Ethics and Health Policy, a major initiative of cooperation between The Hastings Center and the Yale Interdisciplinary Center for Bioethics.
   Moderator: Erika Blacksher, Ph.D., Research Scholar, The Hastings Center
   Panelists: James Morone, Professor of Political Science and Urban Studies, Brown University; Theodore R. Marmor, Professor Emeritus of Public Policy and Management & Professor Emeritus of Political Science, Yale University; Peter A. Swenson, C.M. Saden Professor of Political Science, Yale University; Daniel Callahan, Senior Researcher and President Emeritus, The Hastings Center, Garrison, New York
   Location: LEPH, Winslow Auditorium, 60 College Street, New Haven, CT
   Sponsors: Yale University Interdisciplinary Center for Bioethics and The Hastings Center
   Contact: For more information, please go to http://www.yale.edu/bioethics/YaleBioethics-HastingsCenterkickoffsymposium.htm
2. THIS WEEK! Dissertation Research Presentation
   
   Date/Time: 04/29/09, 1:00 PM - 2:00 PM
   Title: "Substance Abuse, HIV Infection, Medication Adherence and Mortality among a Cohort of Aging US Veterans"
   Speaker: Traci Green, M.Sc., candidate in Yale School of Public Health's Chronic Disease Epidemiology (CDE) Division and current NIMH Pre-Doctoral Fellow at CIRA
   Location: LEPH, Rm. 115, 60 College Street, New Haven, CT
3. THIS WEEK! International Health Lecture
   
   Date/Time: 04/30/09, 12:00 Noon
   Title: Global Health in the 21st Century
   Speaker: Dr. Roger Glass, Director of the Fogarty International Center, National Institutes of Health
   Location: Yale School of Medicine, Beaumont Room, 333 Cedar Street, New Haven, CT
4. THIS WEEK! Schell Center Lecture
   
   Date/Time: 04/30/09, 12:45 PM
   Title: The Duty of Treatment: Human Rights and the HIV/AIDS Pandemic
   Speaker: Noah Novogrodsky, Senior Scholar, Georgetown University Law Center and Visiting Professor at the University of Connecticut School of Law
   Location: Yale Law School, Rm. 129, 127 Wall Street, New Haven, CT
5. THIS WEEK! Special Presentation with The Initiative in Religion, Science & Technology
   
   Date/Time: 05/01/09, 10:00 AM
   Title: Human Rights vs. Property Rights: Can Pharmaceutical Patents Ethically Block Access to Medicines Crucial to Survival?
   Speaker: Gabriel J. Michael
   Abstract: Intellectual property has become a matter of life and death. The ethical implications of pharmaceutical patents as they affect global access to health care has come under increasing scrutiny in the past decade, catalyzed by the HIV/AIDS pandemic as well as a dearth of research into treatments for neglected diseases. "Big Pharma" and other advocates for the current patent system counter that intellectual property is an economic, legal, and even moral right without which research on needed cures would grind to a halt. Drawing on the resources of Catholic thought, Gabriel Michael, DIV ’09 and an authority on the ethical and theological ramifications of intellectual property law, outlines an approach cognizant of the social aspect of property as well as the obligations of property holders intended to reconcile intellectual property rights and the human right to health.
   Sponsors: Yale University's Interdisciplinary Center for Bioethics; the Religious and Spiritual Perspectives on Bioethics Working Group of the Yale Divinity School Initiative in Religion, Science & Technology
   Location: Yale University's Interdisciplinary Center for Bioethics, Conference Room, 238 Prospect Street, New Haven, CT
6. THIS WEEK! Interdisciplinary Research Consortium on Stress, Self-Control and Addiction Bioethics Presentation
   
   Date/Time: 05/01/09, 1:30 PM - 3:00 PM
   Title: "Ethical, legal and social implications of research on stress, self-control and addiction in adolescents"
   Speakers: Dr. Julius Landwirth, Associate Director, Yale Interdisciplinary Center for Bioethics; Dr. Robert Levine, Senior Scholar in Research Ethics, Yale Interdisciplinary Center for Bioethics
   Location: The Giarman Room (B-201), Yale School of Medicine, 333 Cedar Street, New Haven, CT
7. NEW! Summer School on Bioethics and Ethical Theory
   The Netherlands School for Research in Practical Philosophy is pleased to invite PhD students to their Summer School of 2009
   
   The summer school will open a forum to discuss a variety of theoretical and methodological approaches to the relationship between bioethics and ethical theory. The aim of the course is not only to offer an overview of contemporary debates about bioethics but also a critical examination of different approaches. In addition, the School wants to provide an opportunity for PhD students to reflect on the methodology in their own research projects and a forum to discuss how to deal with the controversies about methodology in contemporary bioethics. The course will be of interest to PhD-students from different disciplines (philosophy, theology, medicine, biology, law etc.) who are interested in questions of bioethics.
   Dates: 08/23/09 - 08/27/09
   Application Deadline: 05/01/09
   Location: Kontakt der Kontinenten, Soesterberg, the Netherlands
   Contact: For more information please go to http://www.ozse.nl/.
8. 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.
9. 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.
10. North America Housing and HIV/AIDS Research Summit Mobilizing Knowledge: Housing is HIV Prevention and Care
    
    Date: 06/03/2009 - 06/05/2009
    Increasing evidence points to the role of housing – or lack of housing – for the continuing HIV epidemic and health disparities. The theme of Summit IV is mobilizing knowledge, with a focus on building participants’ knowledge base and skills to inform housing and health policy and practice in their communities.
    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/
11. Unique Exhibit Uses Traditional Arts to Educate Audiences about AIDS
    
    Title: Siyazama: Traditional Arts, Education, and AIDS in South Africa
    This is an extraordinary exhibit featuring beadwork, story quilts, dolls and other folk arts created by those suffering with AIDS as a way to educate others about prevention and treatment.
    Exhibit available through June 26, 2009: The gallery is open Monday through Friday from 10:00 am to 5:00 pm, during special weekend events, and by appointment. This will be the only showing of Siyazama in New England.
    Location: The Jean J. Schensul Community Gallery at the Institute for Community Research, 146 Wyllys Street Hartford, CT
    Sponsor: Institute for Community Research
    Contact: For more information, please go to: http://www.incommunityresearch.org/news/pressreleases/PR2009/pressmar30_2009.htm
12. NIH Fiscal Policy for Grant Awards – FY 2009 (NOT-OD-09-066)
    
    This Notice provides guidance about the NIH Fiscal Operations Plan for FY2009 and it implements the FY 2009 enacted Omnibus appropriation that provided NIH with $30.4 billions or 3 percent more than FY 2008 funding. The NIH will continue to manage its portfolio of investments in biomedical research as described in the FY 2008 Fiscal Policy Notice (see http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/notice-files/NOT-OD-08-036.html). This includes continuing to address the need for a highly productive pool of researchers by providing support for new investigators and sustaining established investigators, who have little or no additional research support.
    Issued by: National Institutes of Health
    Contact: For more information please go to http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/notice-files/NOT-OD-09-066.html.
13. Announcing the FY 2009 NIH Director’s Bridge Awards (NOT-OD-09-068)
    
    This announcement updates and expands the NIH Director’s Bridge Award (NDBA), which was initiated in FY 2007. The NDBA provides continued but limited bridge funding for meritorious investigators who just miss the funding cutoff and have minimal support from other sources. The continued funding will permit the Principal Investigator additional time to strengthen a resubmission application. An NDBA recipient will receive an R56 award for a single year.
    Issued by: National Institutes of Health
    Contact: For more information please go to http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/notice-files/NOT-OD-09-068.html.
14. Salary Limitation on Grants, Cooperative Agreements, and Contracts (NOT-OD-09-069)
    
    This notice provides updated information regarding the salary limitation for NIH grant and cooperative agreement awards and extramural research and development contract awards.
    Issued by: National Institutes of Health
    Contact: For more information please go to http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/notice-files/NOT-OD-09-069.html.
15. Notice of Legislative Mandates in Effect for FY2009 (NOT-OD-09-070)
    
    The Omnibus Appropriations Acts, 2009 (Public Law 111-8), provides funding to NIH for the remainder of FY2009. The intent of this Notice is to provide information on the statutory provisions that limit the use of funds on National Institutes of Health (NIH) grant, cooperative agreement, and contract awards for FY2009.
    Issued by: National Institutes of Health
    Contact: For more information please go to http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/notice-files/NOT-OD-09-070.html.
16. The Omnibus Appropriations Act of 2009 Makes the NIH Public Access Policy Permanent (NOT-OD-09-071)
    
    In accordance with Division F Section 217 of PL 111-8 (Omnibus Appropriations Act, 2009), the NIH Public Access Policy (NOT-OD-08-033) remains a legislative mandate for FY 2009 and beyond. The law states: SEC. 217. The Director of the National Institutes of Health ("NIH") shall require in the current fiscal year and thereafter that all investigators funded by the NIH submit or have submitted for them to the National Library of Medicine's PubMed Central an electronic version of their final, peer-reviewed manuscripts upon acceptance for publication, to be made publicly available no later than 12 months after the official date of publication: Provided, That the NIH shall implement the public access policy in a manner consistent with copyright law.
    Issued by: National Institutes of Health
    Contact: For more information please go to http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/notice-files/NOT-OD-09-071.html.