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Yale AIDS Colloquium Series - Academic Year 2007-2008

The Yale AIDS Colloquium Series (YACS), cosponsored by CIRA and Yale's Institution for Social and Policy Studies (ISPS), is an interdisciplinary academic forum for discussion of HIV/AIDS-related research and policy. See below for details on upcoming seminars as well as presentation slides and a video archive posted after each talk. You must have RealPlayer to view all videos. Click the talk title to download a flyer for the event.

NOTE: Please RSVP to Betsy Williams (203-764-4333) for each event.

September 2007

27

Thursday

12:00-1:00 PM

Speaker: Lucie Cluver, Dept. of Social Policy & Social Work, University of Oxford

Title: AIDS-Orphanhood: Psychological Effects and Intervention Strategies

Location: LEPH Room 608, 60 College St, New Haven, CT

Video:

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Slides:

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October 2007

18

Thursday

12:00-1:30 PM

Speaker: Susu Liao, Ph.D.

Title: From Ivory Tower to the Communities - My experience working in HIV/AIDS Prevention in rural China

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

Video:

Video (140 MB)

Slides:

Acrobat icon (1 MB)

November 2007

8

Thursday

12:00-1:30 PM

Speaker: Jack Dovidio, Ph.D., Professor of Psychology, Yale University

Title: Racial Bias, Communication, and Trust: Implications for Interventions

Location: CIRA, Ste # 200, 135 College St, New Haven, CT

Video:

Video (180 MB)

Slides:

Acrobat icon (160 KB)

29

Thursday

12:00-1:00 PM

Speaker: Naomi Braine, Ph.D., The Center for Drug Use and HIV Research at NDRI

Title: Gender, Sexuality, and HIV Risk Behavior among Amphetamine Injectors at US Syringe Exchange Programs

Location: LEPH Room 608, 60 College St, New Haven, CT

Video:

Video (146 MB)

Slides:

Acrobat icon (63 KB)

December 2007

13

Thursday

12:00-1:30 PM

Speaker: Mark A. Wainberg, Ph.D., Director, McGill AIDS Centre

Title: HIV Transmission Dynamics and Drug Resistance: Concerns for Developed and Developing Countries

Location: CIRA, Ste # 200, 135 College St, New Haven, CT

Video:

Video (181 MB)

Slides:

Acrobat icon (571 KB)

January 2008

31

Thursday

12:00-1:00 PM

Speaker: Michael Saag, Director of the Center for AIDS Research (CFAR) at the University of Alabama at Birmingham

Title: The Policy of Universal Opt-Out HIV Testing: Who Will Take Care of Newly Diagnosed Patients?

Location: LEPH Room 608, 60 College St., New Haven, CT

Video:

Video (163 MB)

Slides:

Acrobat icon (1 MB)

February 2008

14

Thursday

12:00-1:30 PM

Speaker: Gerald H. Friedland, M.D., Director of the AIDS Program at Yale New Haven Hospital, Professor of Medicine & Epidemiology and Public Health at the Yale School of Medicine

Title: Confronting the Catastrophe of M/XDR TB

Location: CIRA, Ste # 200, 135 College St, New Haven, CT

Video:

Video (166 MB)

Slides:

Acrobat icon (2.7 MB)

28

Thursday

12:00-1:00 PM

Speaker: Patricia Case, M.P.H., Sc.D., Senior Research Scientist, The Fenway Institute at Fenway Community Health

Title: Multidisciplinary Studies of Emergent Drugs: The Case of Boltushka in Odessa, Ukraine

Location: LEPH Room 608, 60 College St., New Haven, CT

Video:

Video (141 MB)

Slides:

Acrobat icon (565 KB)

March 2008

27

Thursday

* CANCELED *

NOTE: Please note this event has been canceled.

April 2008

10

Thursday

* CANCELED *

NOTE: Please note this event has been canceled.

24

Thursday

12:00-1:00 PM

Speaker: Luc de Montigny, Interdisciplinary Doctoral Program in Urban Design & Planning, U. of Washington

Title: Discarded Needles and the Urban Environment - Attractors, Deterrents and Disposal Options

Location: LEPH Room 608, 60 College St, New Haven, CT

Video:

Video (146 MB)

Slides:

Acrobat icon (7.3 MB)


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