4th Annual HIV/AIDS Student Research Day

T
he Centre for AIDS Interdisciplinary Research at Oxford and the Department of Social Policy and Intervention (CAIRO), the Global Economic Governance Programme at University College, the Blavatnik School of Government and the Department of Public Health are organising the 4th annual day on November 26, 2012. All students/University members interested in HIV/AIDS research issues are welcome to participate. For information on last year's event please visit: http://www.cairo.ox.ac.uk/activities.html.

To register, please visit: http://www.tiny.cc/HIVAIDSResearchDay. The poster for the event can be found here.


If you would like to present your research, please submit an abstract via the above link by 15th November 2012.

The Centre for AIDS Interdisciplinary Research at the University of Oxford (CAIRO) is a multidisciplinary and interdivisional initiative. It provides high-quality research evidence to inform policy and programming in prevention, treatment and care of HIV and AIDS. Led by the Department of Social Policy and Intervention and the Department of Public Health, CAIRO brings together specialist researchers and students with an interest in HIV/AIDS from across the Social and Medical Sciences Divisions.

The University of Oxford has been the site of several important contributions to the global fight against HIV/AIDS. CAIRO provides an infrastructure that enables better coordination between researchers across the university, and that stimulates innovative interdisciplinary research and teaching on the HIV/AIDS epidemic.

CAIRO is particularly focused on strong collaborations between policy-makers, practitioners and academics in order to improve integration of evidence into the global fight against HIV and AIDS. CAIRO studies have had major impact on policies such as those of UNAIDS, the World Health Organisation, and several Sub-Saharan African states. The centre has a particular interest in work with highly vulnerable and understudied groups, such as men who have sex with men (MSM) in sub-Saharan Africa, and children who take care of their AIDS-sick parents.

CAIRO is funded by the John Fell Foundation.

KEY MEMBERS

Dr Devi Sridhar Dr Mark BoyesDr Mark Orkin



HIV/AIDS Student Day 2011

The third annual Oxford University Student HIV/AIDS Research Day was held on November 25, 2011 at Wolfson College. More than 60 students and researchers interested in HIV/AIDS participated.

Professor Sarah Rowland-Jones gave the keynote speech, which can be listened to here. Students from the department of Public Health, Social Policy and Intervention, Education and Politics presented their research findings on a variety of topics and HIV/AIDS.


The final programme can be found here. To read more about the organising team, read here.

























-  October 2012:  In cooperation with the Centre for Evidence Based Intervention (CEBI), CAIRO will host Prof. Charlotte Watts of the School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, who will talk on 'Intimate Partner Violence and HIV' and DPhil Candidate Lena Saleh, University of Oxford whose talk will focus on 'Sexual risk in African American men who have sex with men'.

- January 2012: The Brown International Advance Research Institute will host its annual conference on June 9-23 2012. Thanks to generous support from Santander Universities, BIARI will cover the costs of tuition, food and accommodation (in university housing) during BIARI, and also the costs of air travel and ground transportation to Providence. To apply, please visit their website. Applications will start to be reviewed on January 4, 2012 so apply as early as possible if interested.

- 02/11/2011: The 3rd annual Student HIV/AIDS Research Day will take place on November 25, 2011 at Wolfson College. Please register here and submit your abstract or poster by November 11th, 2011.

- 02/11/2011: Call for Intern Applications for Programmatic Internship on Women, Drugs and Criminal Justice at the Harm Reduction International (formerly known as the International Harm Reduction Association). Deadline: November 15th, 2011. Read full details here.

-29/07/2011: Young Carer's article on OVCSupport.net. Click here

-28/07/2011: New policy briefs online now in the papers section. Click here

-30/05/2011: Applications open for UWC-VLIR Post-Doctoral Scholarship: HIV In Context. For information click here

-05/05/2011: New book with CAIRO contributions to be published on November 10th 2011. Education and HIV/AIDS (Education as a Humanitarian Response) examines the relationship HIV/AIDS has with education in different international contexts, from sub-Saharan Africa, Eastern Europe, South-East Asia, the USA, UK, and the Caribbean.

-02/04/2011: New policy briefs online now in the papers section. Click here

-21/03/2011: Call for papers for the Sexuality, AIDS and religion: transnational dynamics in Africa conference at the School of Anthropology, University of Oxford September 28-30 2011. Submission date for abstracts is 1st July 2011. Please follow the link for more information.

-26/02/2011: PhD Opportunity in mathematical epidemiology at SACEMA, Faculty of Sciences, Stellenbosch University, South Africa: The importance of the sexual network structure for the impact of the 'Test & Treat' strategy on the incidence of HIV in South Africa
Please follow the link for more information. The application deadline is March, 11 2011.

-18/02/2011: The Oxford Global Health Group (OGHG) Global Careers Fair is taking place at the Medical Sciences Teaching Centre from 5:45pm to 9pm. Speakers will include Dr. Anita Makin (MSF Sierra Leone), Lord Nigel Crisp (former NHS Chief Executive) and Juliet Bedford (Anthrologica). Please follow the link for the full programme.

- 1/12/2010: The Oxford University Student HIV/AIDS Research Day  was featured on BBC Radio Oxford

-30/11/10: The Oxford University Student HIV/AIDS Research Day  was held at Wolfson College. It was a great success with participants from at least 6 different departments across Oxford University. The programme can be found here

-25/10/10: The Centre for Evidence Based Information in the Department of Social Policy and Social Work is hosting a series of HIV/AIDS-related talks throughout Michaelmas Term in 2010. Please follow the link for dates, speakers, and talk titles

-20/10/2010: For World AIDS Day 2010 the Oxford University Student HIV/AIDS Research Day will be held at Wolfson College on 30/11/2010. Please register here

-17/11/09: In commemoration of World AIDS Day, St Cross College will be hosting a Colloquium focusing on HIV/AIDS. Professor Harold Jaffe will present on "The global HIV/AIDS epidemic" and Jacqueline Papo will present on "Exploring the condom gap." The event will be held at St Cross College (St Cross Room), 5.30-6.30, Tuesday 1st December.

-17/11/09: For World AIDS Day 2009, CAIRO, the Department of Social Policy and Social Work, the Division of Public Health and Primary Care and Wolfson College will be facilitating an interdisciplinary workshop for graduate students and researchers interested in HIV and AIDS at Oxford University. The Oxford University HIV/AIDS Student Workshop will be held on December 2, 2009 at Wolfson College.

-16/09/09: Dr. Lucie Cluver, Dr. Don Operario, and DPhil student Caroline Kuo will be presenting their paper entitled Caring for AIDS-Orphaned Children: Varying Health Vulnerabilities Amoungst Carers at the 2009 AIDS Impact Conference in Botswana.

-16/09/09: The Young Carers Team, with the South African National Department of Social Development, will be presenting a special workshop on Home-Based Care at the AIDS Impact Conference in Botswana.

-16/09/09: The new South African National Action Plan for Orphans and Children Made Vulnerable by AIDS (NAP) has been finalised by the National Action Committee for Children Affected by AIDS. The Young Carers Team have been involved in the writing of the NAP, and we are delighted that this includes a section on care and support of Young Carers.

-16/09/09: Caroline Kuo will also be presenting the paper she co-wrote with Dr. Cluver and Dr. Operario, ""Caring for AIDS-orphaned children: Health outcomes of carers of AIDS-orphaned and other vulnerable children in South Africa" at the American Public Health Association Conference at Pennsylvania, USA on November 7-11, 2009 .




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