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10/27/2022
The 2022 Center for Interdisciplinary Research on AIDS at Yale University (CIRA) Fast-Track Pilot Project Supplements in HIV Research offer funding to test innovative, cutting-edge ideas or untested methods as...
10/27/2022
Dr. S. Raquel Ramos's National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI)-funded, five-year, career development award study, "LEveraging A viRtual eNvironment (LEARN) to Enhance Prevention of HIV-related...
10/17/2022
On November 14th, the New England HIV Implementation Science Network welcomes Dr. Arryn Guy (pictured left) from Brown University to talk about forming and running a community advisory board with a focus on...
10/16/2022
Seeking to bridge the gap between the classroom and real-life activism, YSPH's first activist-in-residence recently launched his Change Talk series. Ijeoma Opara, assistant professor of social and behavioral...
10/16/2022
A Yale harm reduction-focused healthcare team has its sights set on installing a trio of vending machines around town that would dispense not candy bars and soda, but clean syringes, safe injection kits, and...
10/16/2022
In the new episode of the Yale Divinity School "Quadcast," author and America magazine correspondent Michael O'Loughlin '09 M.A.R. discusses his book Hidden Mercy, the challenges of being an LGBTQ member of...
10/16/2022
Drs. Frederick Altice and Lynn Madden were recently awarded a National Institute on Drug Abuse grant for a new HIV prevention implementation research project to scale-up medication-assisted treatments for...
09/19/2022
YSPH Assistant Professor Ashley Hagaman (senior author), and PhD student Raquel Burgess (lead author), investigate existing mental health support for researchers and provide specific recommendations to better...
09/19/2022
Yale School of Medicine researchers Julia Rozanova, PhD and Sheela Shenoi, MD, MPH have been awarded two grants from the NIH to further their work studying HIV & aging in Ukraine:"Adapting a disclosure...
09/15/2022
During the pandemic, New Haven moved some people living in the city's group shelters to hotel rooms. New Yale School of Public Health research finds that individual accommodations improved their sense of...
09/11/2022
Dr. Jaimie Meyer was awarded a new NIDA R01 grant to implement and evaluate the use of telehealth for PrEP among individuals with substance use disorders. The project, called Athena, aims to improve and scale-...
09/06/2022
Yale School of Public Health Assistant Professor Ijeoma Opara had wanted to create a healthy support network for Black teenage girls since she first joined YSPH in 2021. But her vision actually goes back much...
09/06/2022
Researchers at the University of Connecticut are seeking Internet-based or online cisgender male sex workers who have sex with men for an on-line survey (recruitment for survey only). The purpose of the survey...
09/06/2022
Faculty members from the Yale School of Public Health (YSPH) and Yale School of Medicine (YSM) recently joined an interdisciplinary group of students and researchers in Kuala Lumpur for a summer boot camp on...
08/15/2022
Mental health providers can learn to deliver evidence-based LGBTQ-affirmative cognitive therapy through low-cost online training, which would help deliver more evidence-based mental health care to LGBTQ people...
08/02/2022
The following list includes select fact sheets, resources, recorded sessions, and literature on Mpox collated by CIRA (updated December 8, 2023).Fact Sheets and InfographicsHIV.gov: Mpox and People with HIVCDC...
07/22/2022
Dr. Sten Vermund's time as dean of the Yale School of Public Health (YSPH) will forever be associated with COVID-19. While Vermund may be remembered for how he navigated the school through the most significant...
07/22/2022
Dr. Sandra Springer recently received a NIDA Avant Garde Award which supports individual scientists of exceptional creativity at all career levels who propose high-impact research that will open new areas of...
07/20/2022
The Research in Addiction Medicine Scholars (RAMS) Program has opened up recruitment for its 11th cohort of Addiction Medicine and Addiction Psychiatry fellows interested in pursuing research. The deadline to...
07/18/2022
We are saddened to share news of the harm reduction community losing a true leader – Mark Kinzly. Mark had worked in the fields of harm reduction and public health for over 30 years bringing innovative...
07/04/2022
On the latest Health & Veritas podcast, Yale physician-professors Howard Forman and Harlan Krumholz were joined by Gregg Gonsalves who discusses his work on HIV/AIDS, COVID, and monkeypox as well as...
07/04/2022
The Office of the U.S. Surgeon General has designated Play2Prevent, founded and directed by Lynn Fiellin, MD, professor of medicine and in the Yale Child Study Center, as a mental health resource for young...
07/04/2022
A new clinical trial, the 'Addressing Risk Through Community Treatment for Infectious Disease and Opioid Use Disorder Now (ACTION)' initiative, is currently recruiting participants. The study is open to...
06/13/2022
Wed, June 29, 202210:00 am-11:30 amRegister NowThis talk will describe experiences with the implementation and delivery of HIV PEP/PrEP and MOUD in Faster Paths, the low-barrier substance use disorder bridge...
06/09/2022
Yale School of Public Health Dean Sten Vermund, M.D. Ph.D. recently announced the school's annual list of faculty and teaching awards. Among the awardees were several CIRA affiliates. ...