The fifth annual AIDS Science Day to highlight the HIV/AIDS research being conducted at Yale will take place on April 23 from 8:15 a.m. to 4:45 p.m. in Winslow Auditorium, Laboratory of Epidemiology and Public Health, 60 College Street.
The event is sponsored by The Center for Interdisciplinary Research on AIDS (CIRA), and supported through a grant from the National Institute of Mental Health. It will feature research being conducted at Yale, and CIRA's two collaborating institutions, the Hispanic Health Council and the Institute for Community Research.
The keynote panel will be "Politics, Ideology and HIV/AIDS Prevention." Panelists include Judith Auerbach, vice president of public policy at amFAR; Kevin Cranston, director of the HIV/AIDS Bureau in Massachusetts; Ana Oliveira, executive director of the Gay Men's Health Crisis, and Margaret Weeks, associate director of the Institute for Community Research.
Other panel presentations include: "All About Eve: Gender, Power and HIV Risk and Prevention," "Outbreak: Hidden Populations and Emerging Epidemics, Session #1 and #2," and "Analyze This: Clinical Outcomes in HIV."
The event is free and open to the public and will include a continental breakfast. Lunch is for pre-registrants only. To register, please call CIRA at 203-764-4333 or e-mail cira@email.med.yale.edu. On-line registration is available at http://cira.med.yale.edu/whats_new/asd2004.html
Contact
Karen N. Peart
203-432-1322