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A Note from Our Director
 Welcome to CIRA NOTES, a new monthly online e-newsletter which replaces our previously published print version. At CIRA, we are privileged to have many dedicated faculty, fellows and staff from throughout the University working together with our collaborators in Connecticut and around the world in cutting-edge research, policy analysis and program evaluation to help improve local and global responses to the HIV/AIDS pandemic. The daily news headlines may leave you feeling that little progress has been made in prevention, treatment and care of this disease. Nothing could be further from the truth, as evidenced by the results of many of CIRA's projects. With our monthly e-newsletter, we will introduce you to the CIRA scientists who are carrying out this work and provide reports on their most important findings.
Sincerely,
Michael H. Merson, M.D.
Director, CIRA
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This Month's Feature:
A Conversation with Nora Ellen Groce, Ph.D.
 For leading medical anthropologist and CIRA-affiliated scientist Nora Ellen Groce Ph.D., AIDS-related research has added a new dimension to an already extensive career examining global health and human rights implications for people with disabilities. Groce, an associate professor in the Global Health Division of the Yale School of Public Health, has done groundbreaking work in the area, examining everything from the communicative skills of a deaf community in Martha's Vineyard to investigating the knowledge of HIV/AIDS among young deaf adults in Swaziland. more
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Yale University’s President Inaugurates New Office for CIRA in India
On January 6th, Yale University President Richard Levin, officially inaugurated a new office for Yale’s Center for Interdisciplinary Research on AIDS (CIRA) housed at YRG CARE, a non-profit organization based in Chennai. The office will operate three research projects: Project Parivartan, supported by a three-year grant from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation (BMGF); a monitoring and evaluation program funded by the Children’s Investment Fund Foundation (CIFF); and a research and training program, supported by the NIH Fogarty International Center. more
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AIDS Science Day 2005
The 7th Annual AIDS Science Day Conference will be held April 22, 2005, in New Haven, CT. The keynote speaker will be Dr. George Ayala, Director of the Institute for Gay Men's Health, based in New York City and San Francisco. Dr. Ayala brings more than 10 years of experience in HIV/AIDS prevention education with a focus in the youth and Latino communities.
Conference registration is available through April 1. The deadline for submitting abstracts is February 18.
Click Here to register online.
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Recent Publications
Groce N., Trasi R. (2004).
"Rape of Individuals with Disability: AIDS and the Folk Belief of Virgin Cleansing"
The Lancet, 363(9422):1664.
Cicchetti, D.V., & Rourke, B.P. (2004).
"Methodological and biostatistical foundations of clinical neuropsychology and medical and health disciplines."
Psychology Press: Taylor & Francis Group: London, U.K. (2nd ed).
Walden, J., and Kaplan, E.H. (2004).
"Estimating Time and Size of Bioterror Attack."
Emerging Infectious Diseases. |
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Seminar Series
Thurs, Feb 3, 4:00pm
Topic: Disability and HIV/AIDS: The Global Survey
Speaker: Nora Groce Ph.D., Associate Professor & Director, Yale/WHO Collaborating Center Global Health Division, Yale School of Public Health
Location: CIRA Conference Room, 40 Temple St., Ste. 1B, New Haven, CT 06510
Thurs, Feb 17, 4:15–5:45 pm
Topic: Sexual risk taking behavior and HIV transmission in India
Speaker: Suniti Solomon, MD, Director, YRG CARE (Y.R. Gaitonde Centre for AIDS
Research and Education)
Location: ISPS Lower Level Conference Room, 77 Prospect Street, New Haven, CT 06510 |
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Announcing The 2005 Yale International AIDS Summer Institute
Date: June 5-10, 2005
Topic: "The Ethics of International AIDS Research: Contemporary Practices and Controversies"
Learn more.. |
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Requests for Applications
Pilot Projects in HIV Prevention Research
Deadline: Letters of Intent must be submitted by 5:00 pm, Friday, 02/25/05
RFA Guidelines
Cross National and Cross Cultural Analyses
Deadline: Monday, 02/21/05
RFA Guidelines |
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