| Cultures in Context: HIV and Substance Abuse Research in the Southeast -- June 12-13, Nashville, TN |
Author: Jon Merz
Date: 05-01-08 22:36
Cultures in Context: HIV and Substance Abuse Research in the Southeast
June 12-13, 2008 at Meharry Medical College, Nashville TN
Meharry Medical College (Nashville, TN) hosts a conference,
Cultures in Context: HIV and Substance Abuse Research in the Southeast,
the impact of race, gender, age, sexual orientation, religion and the rural/urban divide in the southeastern United States
June 12-13, 2008.
Treatment and prevention of HIV involves interactions among biological, behavioral and cultural variables. Researchers must respond to these complex interactions amid scientific, regulatory, and political constraints. This conference will address complex cultural features that influence HIV and substance abuse research, prevention, treatment and policy. Leading researchers in both biologic and behavioral prevention of HIV and substance abuse from across the country will present current data and strategies, with opportunities for discussion among colleagues and communities.
Topics include:
Demographic Matching of Subject and Researcher: Does it Matter?
Religion: Help or Hindrance to Prevention or Treatment?
Research in Rural Environments: How is it Different?
Vaccines: Is There a Future?
Microbicides: Can they Work? Will it Matter?
Putting the Community in Community-based Participatory Research
Issues of Policy and Funding: Who Decides and Why?
Sponsored by the Program in Clinical and Research Ethics, Meharry Medical College
Funded by the National Institutes of Health, Grant # 5T15HL07568
Visit our website at http://www.mmc.edu/education/medical/ethics/events.html for more information, or inquire to Carey Szetela, cszetela@mmc.edu.
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