Yale AIDS Colloquium Series - Academic Year 2006-2007

September

21

Thursday

12:00-1:00 PM

Speaker: Holly Hagan, Ph.D. - The Center for Drug Use and HIV Research at the National Development and Research Institutes, Inc.

Title: A Systematic Review of Epidemiology and Prevention of Hepatitis C Virus in Drug Users

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

NOTE: Co-sponsored by Yale School of Public Health's Division of Epidemiology of Microbial Diseases.

October

10

Tuesday

12:00-1:30 PM
Lunch included

Speaker: Sten Vermund, M.D., Ph.D., Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, Institute for Global Health

Title: Update on Global HIV Prevention Research

Location: CIRA, Ste # 1B, 40 Temple Street, New Haven, CT

26

Thursday

12:00-1:00 PM

Speaker: Dave Buchanan, Dr.PH - School of Public Health and Health Sciences, University of Massachusetts, Amherst

Title: Local Contextual Variations in the Spread of HIV in Injection Drug-Using Populations

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

NOTE: Co-sponsored by Yale School of Public Health's Division of Epidemiology of Microbial Diseases. Brown Bag Lunch, cookies and drinks provided

November

2

Thursday

12:00-1:30 PM
Lunch included

Speaker: Gina M. Wingood, Sc.D., M.P.H. - Associate Professor at Emory University, Rollins School of Public Health & Ralph DiClemente, Ph.D. - Charles Howard Candler Professor of Public Health and Associate Director, Emory/Atlanta Center for AIDS Research

Title: Adapting and Disseminating Evidence Based HIV Interventions for Adolescents and Women

Location: CIRA, Ste # 1B, 40 Temple Street, New Haven, CT

30

Thursday

12:00-1:00 PM

Speaker: Steven Shoptaw, Ph.D. - Research Psychologist at UCLA Integrated Substance Abuse Programs

Title: Methamphetamine Use and HIV

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

NOTE: Co-sponsored by Yale School of Public Health's Division of Epidemiology of Microbial Diseases. Brown Bag Lunch, cookies and drinks provided

December

12

Tuesday

12:00-1:30 PM
Lunch Included

Speaker: Michael Blank, Ph.D. - Assistant Professor of Psychology in Psychiatry, University of Pennsylvania

Title: HIV and Serious Mental Illness: Opportunities for Prevention

Location: CIRA, Ste # 1B, 40 Temple Street, New Haven, CT

January 2007

25

Thursday

12:00-1:30 PM

Speaker: Philip Alcabes, Ph.D., Associate Professor of Urban Public Health, Hunter College School of Health Sciences of the City University of NY, School of Health Sciences

Title: Communicative Inaction: Policymakers, Media, and the Construction of AIDS (NOTE: Some of this lecture was based upon this publication.)

Location: CIRA, Ste # 1B, 40 Temple Street, New Haven, CT

February 2007

8

Thursday

12:00-1:30 PM

Speaker: Paul D. Cleary, Ph.D., Dean of Yale School of Public Health, Acting Director, CIRA

Title: Assessing Quality Improvement in HIV Clinics

Location: CIRA, Ste # 1B, 40 Temple Street, New Haven, CT

22

Thursday

12:00-1:00 PM

Speaker: Zita Lazzarini, J.D., M.P.H., Division Director and Associate Professor, Division of Medical Humanities, Health Law and Ethics, University of Connecticut School of Medicine

Title: Rapid Policy Assessment in Four Countries of the Former Soviet Union and Eastern Europe: What Have we learned so far about drug policy, policing and HIV prevention?

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

NOTE: Co-sponsored by Yale School of Public Health's Division of Epidemiology of Microbial Diseases. Brown Bag Lunch, cookies and drinks provided

March 2007

8

Thursday

12:00-1:30 PM

Speaker: Anita Raj, Ph.D., Associate Professor, Social and Behavioral Sciences, Boston University School of Public Health

Title: Intimate Partner Violence and Sexual Risk for HIV: Findings from Studies with Heterosexual Women, Men and Youth

Location: CIRA, Ste # 1B, 40 Temple Street, New Haven, CT

29

Thursday

12:00-1:30 PM

Speaker: William C. Holmes, M.D., M.S.C.E., Assistant Professor of Medicine, General Internal Medicine, University of Pennsylvania SOM

Title: Lost in Translation: The Path from Boyhood Sexual Abuse to Adult Sexual Risk

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

April 2007

12

Thursday

12:00-1:00 PM

Speaker: Geoffrey Garnett, Professor of Microparasite Epidemiology, Division of Epidemiology, Public Health and Primary Care, Imperial College, London

Title: Mathematical Modeling of the Roll Out of Antiretrovirals in Sub-Saharan Africa

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

NOTE: Co-sponsored by Yale School of Public Health's Division of Epidemiology of Microbial Diseases.

26

Thursday

12:00-1:00 PM

Speaker: Martin Y. Iguchi, Ph.D., Senior Behavioral Scientist, RAND Corporation; Professor of Public Health, University of California, Los Angeles

Title: Interpreting HIV Seroprevalence in Hidden Populations: Lessons Learned from Drug Users and MSM

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

NOTE: Co-sponsored by Yale School of Public Health's Division of Epidemiology of Microbial Diseases.

May 2007

10

Thursday

12:00-1:30 PM

Speaker: Walter Obungu Obiero, Ph.D., Technical Adviser, Strategic Information Division, Family Health International

Title: The Added Value of Family and Community Support for ART Program in Southern Africa

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