August 20, 2007

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

A. CIRA SPONSORED AIDS SEMINARS

1. NEW! YACS @ CIRA Seminar Series
   09/27/07, 12:00 P.M. – 1:30 P.M., (Brown bag lunch. Cookies and beverages included.)
   Title: "TBD"
   Speaker(s): Lucie Cluver, Dept of Social Policy & Social Work, Cape Town Child Welfare Society, University of Oxford, England
   Sponsor(s): Co-sponsored by CIRA, the Institution for Social and Policy Studies and Yale School of Public Health's Division of Epidemiology of Microbial Diseases
   Location: 60 College St., LEPH room 608, New Haven, CT
   Contact: Please RSVP to elizabeth.eocaci@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.

B. CIRA MEETINGS/ANNOUNCEMENTS

1. THIS WEEK! Clinical & Health Services Research (CHSR) Core Meeting
   08/22/07, 2:00 P.M. - 3:00 P.M.
   Location: CIRA, Ste # 200, 135 College Street, New Haven, CT
2. Clinical & Health Services Research (CHSR) Core Meeting
   09/06/07, 1:30 P.M. - 2:30 P.M.
   Location: CIRA, Ste # 200, 135 College Street, New Haven, CT
3. CHANGE! Executive Committee Meeting
   09/6/07, 10:30 A.M. - 12:00 P.M.
   Location: CIRA, Ste # 200, 135 College Street, New Haven, CT
4. Interdisciplinary Research Methods (IRM) Core Meeting
   09/14/07, 1:00 P.M. - 2:30 P.M.
   Location: CIRA, Ste # 200, 135 College Street, New Haven, CT
5. Community Research (CR) Core Meeting
   09/14/07, 9:00 A.M. - 10:30 A.M.
   Location: CIRA, Ste # 200, 135 College Street, New Haven, CT
6. NEW! Clinical & Health Services Research (CHSR) Core Meeting
   09/20/07, 1:30 P.M. - 2:30 P.M.
   Location: CIRA, Ste # 200, 135 College Street, New Haven, CT

C. OTHER ANNOUNCEMENTS

1. Addiction, Mental Health and HIV/AIDS
   Chairperson: Kaveh Khoshnood, Ph.D.
   Advisory Group: Carol Pollard, Associate Director, Bioethics Center, Ashley Simmons, Program Coordinator, Bioethics Center
   The Addiction, Mental Health, and HIV/AIDS Ethics Interest Group was formed in March, 2005, by a group of Yale faculty, students and other interested individuals from the community-at-large. It became a full-fledged study group in March, 2006. The study group consists of interdisciplinary scholars and practitioners who are interested in ethical issues in the nexus of drug addiction, mental health and HIV/AIDS practice, research, and policy. Group membership draws from various schools within Yale University (Medicine, Epidemiology and Public Health, Psychiatry) as well as individuals associated with Yale's Interdisciplinary Bioethics Center and Center for Interdisciplinary Research on AIDS (CIRA). Group members specialize in diverse discipline including public health, sociology, philosophy, psychiatry, and substance abuse.
   Time and Location: This group meets from 12-1:30 in the Conference Room on 87 Trumbull Street. Lunch will be provided.
   Dates: Please note the meeting dates for the academic year '07-'08 (Speakers TBA). 27 September, 25 October, 24 January, 28 February, 27 March, 24 April, 22 May