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7th ANNUAL AIDS AWARENESS & LOBBY DAY

CIRA Associates Push for Sex Education

AIDS Awareness Day 2008 Community Research Core Assistant Director, Leif Mitchell, and Shawn Lang, Director of Public Policy at the Connecticut AIDS Resource Coalition, were featured in the news after rallying together to promote AIDS awareness on the steps of the state Capitol recently.

"Comprehensive sex education is the front line of AIDS prevention," said Shawn Lang, also a member of CIRA's Community Advisory Board.

Read the entire article, courtesy of courant.com.
LAW, POLICY & ETHICS COMMUNITY INTERNATIONAL
Law, Policy & Ethics The Law, Policy and Ethics (LPE) Core ensures the legal, policy and ethical issues are considered in the design of every CIRA research project and supports investigators in developing policy-related and policy-relevant research.

Learn more 		Community CIRA focuses on the prevention needs of those most affected by HIV in Connecticut. The Center unites two Connecticut research institutions: Yale University in New Haven and The Institute for Community Research (ICR) in Hartford.

Learn more 		International CIRA seeks to conduct and promote innovative, interdisciplinary research and training in HIV/AIDS by CIRA scientists and international partners, and to ensure that information generated by these collaborations is broadly accessible.

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CIRA OVERVIEW RESEARCH AND ANALYTIC TOOLS
Located in the School of Public Health at Yale University, the Center for Interdisciplinary Research on AIDS (CIRA) is 100% supported through grant No. P30 MH62294 from the National Institute of Mental Health, Paul D. Cleary, Ph.D., Principal Investigator.

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CIRA Leadership:

Acting Director: Paul D. Cleary, Ph.D.
Deputy Director: Jeannette R. Ickovics, Ph.D.
Executive Director: Elaine O'Keefe, M.S.
Center Coordinator: Gai Pollard 		Research and Analytic Tools The Interdisciplinary Research Methods (IRM) Core provides centralized expertise and resources in support of research design, and the collection, management, and analysis of data. The Core's expertise is focused in the three areas of:
  • quantitative methods and biostatistics,
  • qualitative methods and ethnography,
  • and cost effectiveness and mathematical modeling.
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YACS@CIRA
Did you miss any of our '07-'08 YACS@CIRA seminars? Archived Webcasts are available for streaming along with PowerPoint slides for each presentation.
GRANT OPPORTUNITIES
The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation is now accepting grant proposals for the first round of Grand Challenges Explorations, a new $100 million global health initiative.
CORE SERVICES
CIRA's Core Services are aimed at encouraging the development of new scientists conducting HIV prevention research and enhancing the quality of new and ongoing HIV prevention research at Yale.