04/11/2017
Though there have been extraordinary advances in HIV/AIDS treatment in the past several years, the disease remains a serious health concern worldwide. Promising developments in HIV vaccines are occurring all...
03/20/2017
Four international HIV researchers will travel to Yale in March and April 2017 as part of the second International Visiting Fellow Program organized by CIRA. The visiting fellows will spend their time at Yale...
02/17/2017
Patients addicted to opioids often seek care in the emergency department (ED). They are more likely to receive addiction treatment, and reduce opioid use long-term if they are started on medication to reduce...
02/07/2017
Paul Cleary, PhD, officially stepped down as the Dean of the Yale School of Public Health (YSPH) upon the arrival of the new Dean, Sten Vermund, last week. Paul will stay on as Director of the Center for...
12/05/2016
December 1, World AIDS Day, is a time to raise awareness about the AIDS pandemic and to mourn those who have died of the disease. The Yale School of Public Health and CIRA joined health experts from around the...
12/05/2016
Elizabeth Cappello joined CIRA as Senior Administrative Assistant on November 21. Liz holds a wide range of responsibilities, coordinating administrative, program and office activities in support of all five...
12/04/2016
Since 2012, CIRA has been circulating a weekly email featuring new publications authored by CIRA affiliates that are obtained from PubMed. Each year the publications are reviewed by the Clinical and Health...
11/21/2016
Dr. Chinekwu Obidoa, assistant professor of global health in Mercer University's College of Liberal Arts and a former fellow with the Research Education Institute for Diverse Scholars (REIDS), was recently...
11/21/2016
All events take place on World AIDS Day, Thursday, December 1Yale University, Noon-1:00 pmSpeaker: Ann Kurth, PhD, CNM, MPH, Dean, and Linda Koch Lorimer Professor, Yale University School of NursingTitle...
11/09/2016
DATE:Thursday, December 1, Noon-1:00 pmLOCATION:Yale School of Public Health, Winslow Auditorium, 60 College Street, New Haven, CTREGISTRATION:Open to everyone. Attendance is free. Register NowTALK TITLE:HIV...
11/08/2016
CIRA currently has two fellowship programs seeking new applicants. Applications for both will start to be reviewed on February 1, 2017.Research Education Institute for Diverse Scholars (REIDS):Research...
10/21/2016
On Oct. 6, Yale's Schools of Medicine and of Public Health hosted a press conference convened by Connecticut Governor Dannel P. Malloy to receive the state's final report and strategic plan on fighting the...
10/21/2016
On average, two people die of drug overdose every day in Connecticut. Although the growing availability of the overdose antidote naloxone has saved many lives, the death toll from opioid overdose is still...
10/10/2016
A Yale School of Public Health researcher and CIRA affiliated scientist is one of the 2016 recipients of the NIH Director’s New Innovator Award. The prestigious award funds the work of investigators who are...
10/09/2016
Dr. Sten H. Vermund, a professor of pediatrics, medicine, health policy, and obstetrics and gynecology at Vanderbilt University, has been named by President Peter Salovey and School of Medicine Dean Dr. Robert...
10/09/2016
Age plays a significant role in the mental and emotional well being of lesbian, gay and bisexual (LGB) veterans of the U.S. military, new research led by the Yale School of Public Health has found.Younger LGB...
10/09/2016
It has been 35 years since the first case of HIV/AIDS was recorded in Connecticut, and since then, Yale has been at the forefront of scientific interventions to address the challenges posed by the epidemic....
09/26/2016
Dr. Amy Justice and colleagues, Drs. David Fiellin, Scott Braithwaite, and Janet Tate received an award from NIAAA to support a Consortium to Improve OutcoMes in HIV/AIDS, Alcohol, Aging, and multi-Substance...
09/25/2016
Robert Heimer, CIRA scientist and Professor at the Yale School of Public Health, was a featured guest on a national public radio program focused on the state of the epidemic, contributions from the research...
09/11/2016
An in-depth review of scientific studies on the criminalization of HIV exposure in the United States has just been published in AIDS Behavior, http://rdcu.be/kcoA. Dini Harsono, Assistant Director for Clinical...
09/10/2016
The Connecticut Opioid REsponse Initiative (CORE) is a strategic plan from Yale experts in response to the state's opioid and overdose epidemics. It recommends:expanding access to effective, medication-based...
09/06/2016
Parents in "blue states" are more likely to vaccinate their teens against Human Papillomavirus, or HPV, and other diseases, new Yale School of Public Health research demonstrates. In a study recently...
08/04/2016
Kim Blankenship (pictured left), CIRA co-founder, and Linda Niccolai (pictured right), Director of CIRA's Development Core, will collaborate on a new study, "Social Determinants of HIV: The Intersecting...
08/04/2016
Erin McBurney, MPH, Senior Administrative Assistant for CIRA, will be leaving the Center on August 19 to join the staff at the Adult and Child Consortium for Health Outcomes Research and Delivery Science (...
07/24/2016
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...
