CIRA Sponsored Seminars and Meetings

1. NEW! Peer Review
   
   Date/Time: 06/19/09, 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)

General Announcements

1. NEW! Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Evaluation Fellowship Program
   
   During the one-year fellowship, non-profit professionals will be trained in evaluation methodology while working on a real-world evaluation project for their employer. The program's goal is to help nonprofit professionals become better internal evaluators of their programs and better consumers of information for decision-making. The program also aims to equip participants with evaluation skills that will help enhance the evaluation capacity of their organizations. Ultimately the program seeks to infuse the evaluation field with well-trained individuals from diverse backgrounds, experiences and perspectives to meet the increasing diversity of programs and communities that the profession serves.
   Contact: For more information including registration deadline and eligibility requirements, please see http://www.rwjf-evaluationfellows.org/fellows.
2. THIS WEEK! 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.
3. THIS WEEK! 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.
4. 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.
5. 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
6. NEW! CFAR SBSRN 4th National Scientific Meeting
   
   Date/Time: 10/01/09-10/02/09
   The Social and Behavioral Sciences Research Network (SBSRN) is intended to link the 20 Centers for AIDS Research (CFARs) and fellow behavioral scientists/researchers in the field funded by the NIH in the United States. The SBSRN is intended to 1) initiate mechanisms to encourage sharing resources; 2) to host an annual scientific meeting; 3) to provide a forum for a national mentoring program for junior and translational investigators, and 4) to promote collaborative multi-site research. This meeting is open to CFAR investigators and affiliates as well as all interested academic, public health and community members.
   Sponsors: Harvard University Center for AIDS Research and the Lifespan/Tufts/Brown Center for AIDS Research
   Location: Courtyard Boston Brookline, 40 Webster St, Coolidge Corner, Brookline, MA 02446
   Contact: For more information on the meeting including registration fees and schedule, please go to https://regstg.com/Registration/Introduction.aspx?rid=2e25e176-5f1c-4ae0-87af-5feaacf70e68.