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. ...
06/08/2022
John Pachankis, the Susan Dwight Bliss Professor of Public Health (Social and Behavioral Sciences) at the Yale School of Public Health, and CIRA Community Research and Implementation Core Director, has been...
06/08/2022
Advancing CT Together (ACT) welcomed Krystal Medley as their new Director of the CT Center for Harm Reduction. Krystal offers experience in the public health field having earned a Master of Public Health...
06/08/2022
Wed, June 15, 2022, 1:00 pm-2:00 pmThis 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 clinic at...
05/22/2022
Dr. Raul Hernandez-Ramirez, Associate Research Scientist at YSPH and Associate Director of the Interdisciplinary Research Methods Core at CIRA, was awarded a Yale Institute for Global Health (YIGH) Spark Award...
05/09/2022
Yusuf Ransome, assistant professor at Yale School of Public Health, recently co-authored an essay stating that the current COVID-19 pandemic has highlighted the important role that churches have played as...
05/03/2022
Kaveh Khoshnood, PhD, MPH is an Associate Professor and Director of Undergraduate Studies at the Yale School of Public Health and executive committee member at Yale Council on Middle East Studies. He is co-...
04/25/2022
CIRA hosted the first two virtual events focused on HIV/AIDS in humanitarian crises: a symposium on HIV/AIDS, mental health, and substance use on April 4, 2022 and a panel on ethical considerations in research...
04/05/2022
CIRA and the Yale School of Public Health welcome eight junior faculty from around the U.S. appointed to the Research Education Institute for Diverse Scholars (REIDS). REIDS is successfully increasing the...
04/04/2022
Important work by CIRA affiliates, Dr. Frederick Altice and Dan Bromberg and others, about how to continue to serve those with HIV and substance use disorders during the war in Ukraine. Many personal stories...
