December 10, 2007

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

A. CIRA SPONSORED AIDS SEMINARS

1. THIS WEEK! YACS @ CIRA Seminar Series
   
   Date/Time: 12/13/07, 12:00 P.M. – 1:30 P.M. (Lunch included)
   Title: "Concerns about Drug Resistance in the Use of Antiretrovirals in HIV Prevention Research: PREP and Microbicides"
   Speaker(s): Mark Weinberg, Director, McGill AIDS Centre
   Sponsor(s): Co-sponsored by CIRA and the Institution for Social and Policy Studies
   Location: CIRA, Ste. 200, Rm. 202, 135 College Street, New Haven, CT
   Contact: Please RSVP to Elizabeth Eocaci-Tucker. For more information or directions, please call 764-4333, or visit the YACS @ CIRA Web site: http://cira.med.yale.edu/events/yacs.html.
2. THIS WEEK! Research in Progress Seminar Series
   
   Date/Time: 12/14/07, 2:30 P.M. – 4:00 P.M.
   Title: "Co-morbidity of Tuberculosis, Alcoholism and Drug Dependence in SPT, Russia"
   Speaker(s): Zinaida Zagdyn, M.D., Ph.D., International Trainee
   Sponsor(s): Office of International Training (OIT), CIRA
   Location: CIRA, Ste. 200, Rm. 202, 135 College Street, New Haven, CT
   

B. CIRA MEETINGS/ANNOUNCEMENTS

1. Interdisciplinary Research Methods (IRM) Core Meeting
   Date/Time: 12/14/07, 1:00 P.M. - 2:30 P.M.
   Location: CIRA, Ste. 200, Rm. 202, 135 College Street, New Haven, CT
2. Peer Review
   Date/Time: 12/19/07, 2:00 P.M. - 3:30 P.M.
   Location: CIRA, Ste. 200, Rm. 202, 135 College Street, New Haven, CT
   Note: CIRA peer review provides an opportunity to enhance the quality of grant proposals and manuscripts written by CIRA scientists by sharing them with a multidisciplinary group of colleagues. The spirit of CIRA peer review is one of collegiality and respect; peer review is constructive rather than evaluative. Investigators use the feedback they receive as they see fit. We encourage you to have your proposal reviewed early in its development. If you would like to submit a grant proposal or manuscript for peer review, please contact Jon Atherton (jon.atherton@yale.edu; 764-4351)

C. OTHER ANNOUNCEMENTS

1. NEW! THIS WEEK! The Hartford HIV Forum - "HIV /AIDS Among Latinos"
   
   Date: 12/13/07 12:00 P.M.–1:30 P.M. (lunch will be provided, advance registration required)
   Speaker: Claudia Martorell, M.D., M.P.H., Director and Principal Investigator at The Research Institute in Springfield, MA, specializing in infectious diseases.
   Sponsors: The Institute for Community Research (ICR) and The CT AIDS Education & Training Center (CAETC)
   Location: Institute for Community Research, 2 Hartford Square West, Suite 100, 146 Wyllys St., Hartford, CT. 06106. Free parking on Wyllys St.
   Contact: Please RSVP to: (860) 278-2044. For additional information, visit their Web site at: www.incommunityresearch.org
   
2. NEW! The presentations for the 2007 NY HIV Research Centers Consortium Conference - "Living with HIV: Challenges for Interdisciplinary Research" are now available on the Consortium Web site and will be up for the next three months. Please go to: http://cduhr.ndri.org/nyhiv/pastConference.aspx?confID=1005.
3. Journal of Cultural Anthropology
   
   In concurrence with World AIDS Day, the journal of Cultural Anthropology would like to announce a retrospective of essays on HIV/AIDS. This collection of essays can now be accessed at the following Web site: http://www.culanth.org/hivaids/. In particular, they are proud to announce that their November 2006 essay by Shao Jing (Nanjing University) - "Fluid Labor and Blood Money: The Economy of HIV/AIDS in Rural Central China" - has won this year's Cultural Horizons Prize. Further details are available at the following site: http://www.aaanet.org/sca/Horizons/horizons.htm.
4. NIMH Draft Strategic Plan: Opportunity for Public Review and Comment Strategic Planning Reports
   
   In May 2007, the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) launched the process to develop a new Strategic Plan that will serve as a guide to the Institute for advancing mental health science over the next 3-5 years. The Institute has now completed a draft of this Strategic Plan, and seeks public feedback before the main text is finalized. We encourage you to visit the NIMH Draft Strategic Plan Web page to review a copy of the Plan and learn how to submit comments.
5. Bioethics Study Group: Exploitation in International Research - Is it Possible to do Research Fairly in an Unjust World? Reading Group
   
   Topic: TBA
   Date/Time: 12/18/07, 5:30 P.M.- 7:00 P.M.
   Speaker: Angela Ballantyne, Ph.D., Visiting Scholar, Interdisciplinary Center for Bioethics, Donaghue Initiative
   Location: Room B-012, ISPS, 77 Prospect St., New Haven, CT
   Contact: For further information, lunch reservations or reading materials, contact brooke.crockett@yale.edu.