YACS@CIRA - Thu, 05/07 @ 12:00 Noon

This talk will focus on the implications of syndemics theory for increasing the effectiveness of HIV prevention among gay men. It will present data to show that a syndemic is operating among American gay men that functions to drive HIV risk in this population.

Date: Thu, 05/07, 12:00 Noon - 1:30 PM

Speaker: Ron Stall, Ph.D., M.P.H., Univ. of Pittsburgh

Title: Implications of Syndemics & Strengths on Increasing the Effectiveness of HIV Prevention among Gay Men

Location: CIRA, Ste 200, Rm. 202, 135 College St, New Haven, CT

Video Conference: CHIP, Ryan Refectory, 2006 Hillside Rd Unit 1248, Storrs, CT

RSVP: Please RSVP to Michelle Gardin (203-764-4347) by May 6.

CIRA Sponsored Seminars and Meetings

1. THIS WEEK! 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
2. THIS WEEK! 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
3. 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)
4. Interdisciplinary Research Methods Core Meeting
   
   Date/Time: 05/15/09, 1:00 PM - 2:30 PM
   Location: CIRA, Ste # 200, Rm. 202, 135 College Street, New Haven, CT

General Announcements

1. 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.
2. 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.
3. 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/
4. 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
5. 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.
6. 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.
7. 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.
8. 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.
9. 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.