CIRAcast DEBUTS ON iTUNES U

CIRA's new netcast series, CIRAcast, debuted last week on iTunes U. In the first edition, Ron Stall from the University of Pittsburgh speaks with Leif Mitchell, Assistant Director of CIRA's Community Research Core, about HIV prevention research for gay men.

You can listen to this netcast for free on iTunes by clicking here (this will automatically open iTunes).

NOTE: After this issue, CIRA's eBulletin will switch to its summer schedule and publish twice a month. We will return to our normal weekly schedule on Monday, 08/31.

CIRA Sponsored Seminars and Meetings

1. THIS WEEK! Clinical and Health Services Research Core Meeting
   
   Date/Time: 05/28/09, 4:00 PM - 5:30 PM
   Location: CIRA, Ste # 200, Rm. 202, 135 College Street, New Haven, CT
2. NEW! Community Research Core Meeting (rescheduled from 05/27/09)
   
   Date/Time: 06/03/09, 9:00 AM - 10:30 AM
   Location: CIRA, Ste # 200, Rm. 202, 135 College Street, New Haven, CT
3. Law, Policy and Ethics Core Meeting
   
   Date/Time: 06/03/09, 10:30 AM - 12:00 Noon
   Location: CIRA, Ste # 200, Rm. 202, 135 College Street, New Haven, CT
4. Peer Review
   
   Date/Time: 06/03/09, 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)
5. NEW! Interdisciplinary Research Methods Core Meeting
   
   Date/Time: 06/12/09, 1:00 PM - 2:30 PM
   Location: CIRA, Ste # 200, Rm. 202, 135 College Street, New Haven, CT

General Announcements

1. 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.
2. 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/
3. Women's Health Research: Scientific Workshop
   
   Date/Time: 06/10/09, 12:00 Noon – 1:00 PM
   Title: Women and the Treatment of Opioid Dependence
   Speaker: Lynn E. Sullivan, M.D., Assistant Professor of Medicine, Department of Internal Medicine, Yale University School of Medicine
   Sponsors: Women's Health Research at Yale and the Women's Behavioral Health Research Division of the Department of Psychiatry
   Location: Yale University School of Medicine, BCMM 206/208, Boyer Center for Molecular Medicine, 295 Congress Avenue, New Haven, CT
   Contact: For more information, please go to www.yalewhr.org or call 764-6600.
4. Minority Women and HIV Conference
   
   Date/Time: 06/10/09, 5:30 PM - 9:00 PM
   Description: This conference will address the lack of knowledge among health care providers about the disproportionate burden of HIV/AIDS among minority women and the need to assess the obstacles to HIV testing and HIV care - including adherence to antiretroviral therapy among this population. The need for improving prevention efforts to decrease mother to child transmission of HIV among minority women will also be addressed
   Sponsor: Brown Alpert Medical School
   Location: Providence Marriott Hotel, One Orms Street, Providence, RI
   Contact: For more information, please go to https://apps.biomed.brown.edu/cme_registration/product_info.php?products_id=30.
5. Latino Community Services 4th Annual AIDS Walk 2009
   
   Date/Time: 06/14/09, 1:30 PM
   Location: West Hartford Reservoir, 1420 Farmington Avenue, West Hartford, CT
   Contact: For more information including flyer and registration instructions, please go to: http://www.lcs-ct.org/upcoming_eventsAW.html.
6. 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
7. 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.
8. 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.
9. 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.
10. 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.
11. 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.