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12/06/2015
By the end of this month, the Connecticut Chief Medical Examiner's Office expects that the number of accidental drug-induced intoxication deaths to rise by 22 percent from last year's rate.The number of deaths...
11/04/2015
The Center for Interdisciplinary Research on AIDS (CIRA) at Yale University currently has 2 fellowship programs seeking new applicants.NIMH Interdisciplinary HIV Prevention Training ProgramFurther Details...
09/11/2015
CIRA is offering a new dissemination tool to affiliated scientists to help them convey the findings of their studies to stakeholders including those in the HIV prevention and care field and policy makers. The...
08/24/2015
The second annual New England HIV Implementation Science Network symposium was held on June 3rd in Sturbridge, MA with over 100 participants representing all six states and a diversity of occupations and...
07/27/2015
CIRA seeks letters of intent for its annual Pilot Projects in HIV Research program. The goal of the program is to provide short-term pilot funding that will lead to larger research projects that can...
07/13/2015
play2PREVENT's newly minted card game financed in 2013 with a grant from Women's Health Research at Yale's Pilot Project Program promises to help young black women navigate the difficulties of dating while...
05/11/2015
CIRA's Dr. Trace Kershaw has been selected as Yale School of Public Health 2015 Distinguished Student Mentor. The Award is a high honor that recognizes the recipient as a leader in shaping the next...
03/16/2015
Research Education Institute for Diverse Scholars (REIDS) Fellow, Tiarney Ritchwood, has accepted a tenure-track, assistant professor position at the Medical University of South Carolina (MUSC). Her primary...
03/16/2015
The Connecticut Technology Council (CTC) announced that Yale School of Medicine Associate Professor, Lynn Fiellin, is among the 56 women who have been selected as Women of Innovation for the 2015 Women of...
02/23/2015
A new study by researchers at Yale School of Public Health and George Mason University provides an in-depth look at the positive aspects of sexual encounters among black men who have sex with men (MSM) versus...
12/08/2014
CIRA and the Lifespan/Tufts/Brown Center for AIDS Research (LTB CFAR) are jointly providing funding up to $40,000 for one pilot project in HIV/AIDS prevention research. The pilot project should focus...
11/24/2014
Gregg Gonsalves, a Ph.D. student at the Yale School of Public Health and a veteran AIDS activist from the 1980s and 1990s, recently discussed what he sees as similarities in the way people and politicians...
11/10/2014
World AIDS Day is held on December 1 each year for people the world over to show solidarity in the fight against HIV/AIDS, demonstrate their support for people living with HIV, and remember those who have died...
09/29/2014
A pilot project entitled, "Project THANKS: Turning HIV/AIDS into New Knowledge for Sisters", developed by Dr. Ndidiamaka "Ndidi" Amutah, Research Education Institute for Diverse Scholars (REIDS) Fellow 2013-15...
09/02/2014
Dr. Barbara Guthrie, former Independence Foundation Professor of Nursing at the Yale School of Nursing, has accepted a new position as Dean of the Graduate School of Nursing at the Northeastern...
08/19/2014
CIRA's Yale AIDS Colloquium Series (YACS) will kick off on Thursday, September 25 as we welcome Don Operario, Associate Professor of Public Health in the Department of Behavior and Social Sciences at...
08/15/2014
CIRA seeks letters of intent for its annual Pilot Projects in HIV Research program. The goal of the program is to provide short-term pilot funding that will lead to larger research projects that can...
08/04/2014
Dr. Donna Cole, a Fellow with the Research Education Institute for Diverse Scholars (REIDS), will begin her appointment this fall as Visiting Assistant Professor in the Department of Sociology at Simmons...
07/21/2014
Members of the international HIV research community were in a state of shock after the death of world-renowned scientist Joep Lange and at least several other activists who perished when Malaysia Airlines...
07/21/2014
Dr. Ndidi Amutah, a Fellow with the Research Education Institute for Diverse Scholars (REIDS), has been selected for the 2014 Ernest E. Just Prize sponsored by the Avery Research Center for African American...
07/07/2014
One of CIRA's three training program that prepares the next generation of scientists specializing in HIV prevention research will continue through its twentieth anniversary with a $2.5 million federal grant....
06/23/2014
Dr. Amy Justice, M.D., M.Sc., Ph.D. was recognized for her dedicated leadership of the Clinical and Health Services Research Core (CHSR) at a recent CIRA event. Dr. Justice is a founding member of the...
06/09/2014
Health professionals, advocates and HIV/AIDS scientists who gathered last week in Mystic, CT for the inaugural New England HIV Implementation Science Network all agreed on one thing: more needs to be done. The...
06/09/2014
Dr. Sarah Calabrese has been awarded a K01 Mentored Research Scientist Development Award from the National Institute of Mental Health (K01-MH103080). Her grant, entitled "Intervention to Promote PrEP...
06/09/2014
Research being conducted by Drs. Kimberly Hieftje and Lynn Fiellin, both CIRA affiliates and Co-Principal Investigators on a Women's Health Research at Yale-supported project, was recently featured in the...