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07/22/2013
Dr. Linda Niccolai has assumed the role of Director of CIRA's Development Core. She will remain the Deputy Director of CIRA's Office of International Training and an investigator with CIRA's Community Research...
07/01/2013
Nathan Hansen, Ph.D., former Associate Professor of Psychiatry at the Yale School of Medicine, former Director of HIV Prevention and Mental Health Research at The Consultation Center, and former Director of...
07/01/2013
CIRA has received a new federal grant that will fund its initiatives for the next five years.Paul Cleary, dean of the Yale School of Public Health and director of the Center, announced the award from the...
05/28/2013
On Monday, June 3, the Research Education Institute for Diverse Scholars (REIDS) program will welcome four new and five returning Fellows to its 2013 Summer Institute. The program was designed to...
05/13/2013
After twelve and a half years at CIRA, Leif Mitchell, Assistant Director of the Community Research Core, has accepted a new position with Gilead Sciences, a biopharmaceutical company that discovers, develops,...
04/29/2013
Presented by the Research Education Institute for Diverse Scholars (REIDS), the purpose of this one-day working session titled "Closing the Gap: Advancing Health Equity in HIV Through Community-Based Research...
04/15/2013
Jean J. Schensul, Co-Director of CIRA's Interdisciplinary Research Methods Core for qualitative research, is holding "office hours" via Skype or phone. Any CIRA affiliates who would like to...
04/01/2013
Russia's HIV epidemic is among the fastest growing in the world and injection drug users who often share needles and other supplies are hardest hit. This occurs even though pharmacies are a legal source for...
04/01/2013
Leif Mitchell, Assistant Director of CIRA's Community Research Core, will be a recipient of Yale University's Seton Elm-Ivy Awards which honor people whose efforts support the collaboration of the university...
03/31/2013
CIRA invites anyone who would like to join team "CIRA @ Yale" for the annual AIDS Walk New Haven which kicks off at 2:30 p.m. from the New Haven Green. Just go to http://aidswalknewhaven.org/ to register and...
03/15/2013
Rear Admiral Kenneth G. Castro, M.D., Director, Division of Tuberculosis Elimination, National Center for HIV, Viral Hepatitis, STD, and TB Prevention (NCHHSTP), U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention...
03/05/2013
The Interdisciplinary Research Methods Core at CIRA will hold a training workshop on Tuesday, March 19 from 11:00 a.m.-12:30 p.m. to introduce the new online Geographic Information System (GIS)...
02/19/2013
The NIH Public Access Policy ensures that the public has access to the published results of NIH funded research. It requires scientists to submit final peer-reviewed journal manuscripts that arise from NIH...
02/05/2013
A new collaborative study led by Yale, the VA Healthcare System, and the North American Cohort Collaboration supports the accuracy of an index used for predicting mortality as patients with HIV age. The study...
02/01/2013
On April 3, 2013 at 4:00 PM, CIRA will present a screening of the Academy Award® nominated documentary, 'How To Survive A Plague' at the Whitney Humanities Center. A reception will follow with Producer/...
12/11/2012
To further support its affiliates with the statistical analysis of HIV specific studies, CIRA is offering free open office hours with Eugenia Buta, Ph.D., a biostatistician in the Yale Center for Analytical...
11/05/2012
Yale School of Public Health and CIRA welcome Dr. Chris Beyrer as the next speaker for YSPH's Dean's Lecture Series on Thursday, November, 29. Dr. Beyrer is the President-Elect of the International AIDS...
09/21/2012
Since 1998, our international training programs have welcomed 150 fellows from Russia, China, India, Nicaragua, South Africa, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Kenya, Malawi, Nigeria and Uganda. CIRA’s ...
08/27/2012
After two years at the center, CIRA bids a fond farewell to one cohort of pre and postdoctoral fellows, while we also welcome four new scholars to our NIMH HIV Prevention Training Program, directed by Drs....
08/27/2012
New research by CIRA scientist, Trace Kershaw, employs the use of smartphones to monitor the flow of information among dozens of people and how this influences health outcomes such as substance abuse and...
08/27/2012
Bridgette Brawner, Ph.D., a 2011 REIDS Scholar, has been invited to present her research entitled "Development of a community-level HIV prevention intervention for Black Philadelphians" to a group being...
07/19/2012
CIRA will be well represented at the XIX International AIDS Conference, taking place July 22-27* in Washington, D.C. This calendar offers information about the sessions in which CIRA affiliates are...
07/02/2012
CIRA invites you to attend a special satellite session HIV in Corrections and Beyond: Progress and Challenges at the International AIDS Conference in Washington, D.C. This session will highlight the critical...
06/13/2012
The Research Education Institute for Diverse Scholars (REIDS) program recently welcomed five new and three returning Fellows to its 2012 Summer Institute. The program was designed to meet the challenges...
05/21/2012
CIRA is pleased to announce that 14 new affiliates have recently brought their individual expertise to the Center, further expanding the diversity of knowledge of our research network. We look forward to the...