March CCHRPP Seminars
CCHRPP partners at SUNY Downstate Health Sciences University are hosting a weekly seminar series on Thursdays from 12-1pm. Please join us for the following March Zoom seminars.
Five Questions with Faculty: Professor Emeritus Gus Birkhead
Guthrie (Gus) Birkhead, MD, MPH is Emeritus Professor in the Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics. Until 2015, Dr. Birkhead worked at the New York State Department of Health for 27 years. Throughout his career, Dr. Birkhead worked in the Bureau of Communicable Disease Control, was the director of the NYSDOH AIDS Institute and director of the NYSDOH Center for Community Health (CCH), which included the state’s communicable disease, chronic disease, maternal and child health, nutrition and local public health services programs. Dr. Birkhead was also Deputy Commissioner and Director of the Office of Public Health, which included responsibility for the AIDS Institute, the CCH, the Center for Environmental Health and the Wadsworth Center Public Health Laboratory.
FEBRUARY 18, 2021 ZOOM EVENT: Ending the Epidemic Post 2020 Election Cycle: Advancing an Equitable and Diverse HIV Agenda in a Divided and Hostile Political Landscape
Please join us on Thursday, February 18th from 12-1pm for the February CCHRPP Zoom seminar, featuring Darrell P. Wheeler, PhD, MPH:
Ending the Epidemic Post 2020 Election Cycle: Advancing an Equitable and Diverse HIV Agenda in a Divided and Hostile Political Landscape.
Research finds people diagnosed with HIV in New York State were more than twice as likely to die from COVID-19
New research out of UAlbany and the AIDS Institute found that through the middle of 2020, people diagnosed with HIV infection were significantly more likely to contract, be hospitalized with and die from COVID-19.
February CCHRPP Seminars
CCHRPP partners at SUNY Downstate Health Sciences University are hosting a weekly seminar series on Thursdays from 12-1pm. Please join us for the following February Zoom seminars.
UAlbany, Tri-County Community Partnership Inc. Receive $286,000 Grant to Evaluate Drug Dependency Reduction Program
ALBANY, N.Y. (January 14, 2021) – Associate Professor Tomoko Udo and Tri-County Community Partnership have received $286,000 from the Center for Drug Policy and Prevention to evaluate Hope Not Handcuffs -Hudson Valley (HNH-HV), a program of the Partnership that aims to connect persons seeking help to address substance use disorder (SUD) with viable treatment options.
JANUARY 21, 2021 ZOOM EVENT: THE INTERSECTION OF HIV AND COVID IN NYS
Join us for the first CCHRPP seminar of 2021:
The Intersection of HIV and COVID in NYS
Thursday, January 21, 2021
12 – 1 p.m.
Presented by James Tesoriero, PhD
Director, Center for Program Development, Implementation, Research and Evaluation
New York State Department of Health AIDS Institute
Zoom link
December 10, 2020 ZOOM EVENT: CRITICAL RACE THEORY AND ENGAGEMENT WITH HIV PATIENTS ALONG THE CONTINUUM OF CARE
Join us for the final CCHRPP seminar of 2020, hosted by CCHRPP partners at SUNY Downstate.
John Conley Division of Medical Ethics and Humanities at SUNY Downstate Medical Center
Public Health Research Seminar
Critical Race Theory and Engagement with HIV Patients Along the Continuum of Care
Thursday, December 10, 2020
12-1pm
Presented by Marya Gwadz, PhD
Associate Dean for Research, Professor, Silver School of Social Work; Associate Director, Center for Drug Use and HIV Research; School of Global Public Health, New York University