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09/30/2021
Black girls make up a relatively small portion of the overall drug-using population. But their health consequences are more severe than most: Reproductive issues, fertility issues, sexually transmitted...
09/30/2021
Y-APT is a full time, two-year Postdoctoral T32 Fellowship for scholars with PhD, MD, and/or JD degrees. Fellows work closely with their Yale mentors focusing on professional development, productivity, and...
09/30/2021
In 2019, drug overdoses took the lives of more than 70,000 people in the United States. In West Virginia, which sees the greatest overdose rate in the U.S., recent legislation has substantially undermined...
09/22/2021
Join us as The New England HIV Implementation Science Network presents When the ParTy Comes to Town: Gay/Bisexual Men's Experiences of Meth and HIV, Locally and Beyond.Monday, October 4th 3:30-5:00 pmRegister...
09/20/2021
CIRA affiliates Julia Rozanova, PhD, and Sheela Shenoi, MD, MPH, have been awarded an R21 from the National Institute on Aging to adapt, tailor and test a peer navigation strategy for supporting older people...
09/19/2021
A comprehensive library of peer-reviewed articles by CIRA affiliates from 2012 to present is now available via Zotero for CIRA community to use (2200+ articles and counting). This library was created to...
09/07/2021
Drs. Tiara Willie and Jaimie Meyer, both former CIRA fellows, are the latest affiliates to successfully turn their CIRA pilot project into a full-scale HIV prevention research project. Willie, an Assistant...
08/09/2021
CIRA member, Sten Vermund, has been named to the Fogarty International Center Advisory Board, his second such tour of duty. The board is comprised of researchers, policymakers and others involved in global...
08/09/2021
To support the development of a multiplayer risk-reduction videogame for Black teen girls, researchers at Yale conducted a study that sheds light on the social media habits of these teens in evaluating and...
07/19/2021
CIRA bids a fond farewell to two of our pre and post-doctoral fellows, while we also welcome three new scholars to our Yale AIDS Prevention Training Program (Y-APT), directed by Dr. Trace Kershaw. We pass on...
07/15/2021
A number of CIRA colleagues and affiliates are highlighting their work at the 2021 IAS Conference on HIV Science taking place July 18-20. All on-demand abstracts and e-posters will be available from July...
07/14/2021
Donna Spiegelman, ScD, founding Director of Yale's Center for Methods in Implementation and Prevention Science (CMIPS), and Eric Velazquez, MD, section chief for Cardiovascular Medicine at the Yale School of...
07/14/2021
The U.S. Department of State recently tapped Yale School of Nursing Associate Dean for Global Affairs & Planetary Health Dr. LaRon Nelson, PhD, RN, FNP, FNAP, FNYAM, FAAN as a Private Sector Advisor for...
06/25/2021
Dr. DeAnne Turner, Assistant Professor at the University of South Florida and former Yale AIDS Prevention Training fellow, has been awarded $25,000 through CIRA's Pilot program to support her research on "...
06/22/2021
Registration is now open for our next New England HIV Implementation Science Network event on Tuesday, July 13, Noon - Telehealth in HIV Prevention & Care: Emerging Approaches. Registration is free and...
06/21/2021
On June 5th, the world marked 40 years since the first five cases of what later became known as AIDS were officially reported. The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's (CDC) Morbidity and...
06/15/2021
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 aims to increase the number and...
06/06/2021
David A. Fiellin, MD, Yale professor of medicine (general medicine), of emergency medicine, and of public health, and director of the Yale Program in Addiction Medicine, was selected by the World Health...
05/17/2021
Join us on Zoom for an international HIV/AIDS research seminar. Presentation will be followed by a discussion with panelists and a Q&A session with the seminar audience. Panelists are Luke Davis, MD,...
05/14/2021
In surveys of 60 LGBTQ community centers across the United States, researchers at the Yale School of Public Health found that these venues provide critical frontline mental health services to a population that...
05/14/2021
As part of its ongoing COVID-19 response efforts, the Biden-Harris Administration will invest $7.4 billion from the American Rescue Plan to recruit and hire public health workers to respond to the pandemic and...
05/03/2021
Futures Without Violence, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), and RALIANCE are thrilled to announce the winner of the 2021 Linda E. Saltzman New Investigator Award, Dr. Nkiru Nnawulezi,...
05/03/2021
Check out this recent blog post written by CIRA predoctoral fellows, Marie-Fatima Hyacinthe and Shannon Whittaker, and published by the Interdisciplinary Association for Population Health Science (IAPHS). The...
05/03/2021
A blue atlas cedar tree, known for its pyramidal form and silvery blue foliage that drapes from expansive branches, was planted by the front entrance of the Yale School of Public Health this month to honor...
05/02/2021
Looking for a new podcast? Delving into everything from black empowerment, drugs, and sex, CIRA affiliates are giving voice to serious issues. Below are several noteworthy options:Black and EMPOWERed...