[Jobs] HIV Prevention Research Ethics & Mentored Research Summer Training Institute for Early Career Investigators]

[Leora Lawton]

From: CELIA FISHER [mailto:fisher at fordham.edu]
Sent: Tuesday, April 26, 2011 10:31 AM
To: Auerbach, Judy
Subject: HIV Prevention Research Ethics & Mentored Research Summer Training
Institute for Early Career Investigators

I would appreciate your help forwarding this e-mail announcement to your early
career investigator colleagues (6 years or less after Ph.D. or post-doc) working in
HIV prevention research. Successful applicants will attend a fully funded summer
training institute and up to $20,000 in research support.

The HIV Prevention Research Ethics Training Institute (RETI) at Fordham University's
Center for Ethics Education, funded by the National Institute on Drug Abuse, is a 5
year program offering early career investigators research ethics training and
financial support for a mentored research project that contributes to
evidenced-based HIV prevention research ethics practices. Applicants must have a
doctoral, medical or equivalent degree in social, behavioral, medical, nursing,
public health or related fields, as well as demonstrated scholarship in HIV
prevention research and 6 years or less of post-doctoral academic experience. For
additional information visit www.Fordham.edu/EthicsInstitute
<http://www.fordham.edu/EthicsInstitute> .

Please do not hesitate to contact me or Erika Harrington, Institute Coordinator, at
EthicsInst at Fordham.edu <mailto:EthicsInst at Fordham.edu>  or (718) 817-0927 if you
have any questions. Thank you very much for your help.

Best regards,

Celia

Celia B. Fisher, Ph.D.
Marie Ward Doty University Chair,
Professor of Psychology, and
Director Center for Ethics Education
Fordham University
Dealy Hall
441 East Fordham Road
Bronx, NY 10458
Fisher at fordham.edu <mailto:Fisher at fordham.edu>
t. (718) 817-3793 f. (212) 759-2009
www.fordhamethics.org <http://www.fordhamethics.org/>

HIV Prevention Research


Ethics Training Institute

Summer Training and Mentored Research
Program for Early Career Investigators




July 24 – August 3, 2011
at Fordham University Center for Ethics Education, New York City
Funded by the National Institutes of Health, National Institute on Drug Abuse

Call for Applications



The HIV Prevention Research Ethics Training Institute (RETI) offers early career
investigators research ethics training and financial support for a mentored research
project that contributes to evidenced-based HIV prevention research ethics
practices. The broad aims of the RETI are to: (1) provide trainees’ with the
knowledge and skills to identify, address, and study key ethical issues in HIV
prevention research; and (2) create and sustain an ongoing information and
collaborative research network infrastructure fostering research, publications,
grant proposals, and pedagogical materials to sustain advancements in national and
international HIV research ethics practices and policies.

RETI Summer Program
RETI fellows are expected to make a 2 year commitment beginning with an intensive
10-day summer program conducted by our interdisciplinary faculty of experts in HIV
research and ethics. Fellows will participate in lectures, discussions and
skill-based exercises to (a) gain knowledge in HIV research recruitment,
confidentiality, informed consent, risk-benefit analysis, and other ethical issues
across diverse populations and (b) research designs and to acquire skills to address
and empirically examine research ethics challenges. Fellows will also meet with
their RETI mentor to begin proposal development. The following summer, trainees will
attend advanced topics seminars, give formal presentations on their mentored
research projects, and meet with new fellow cohorts. Fellows will receive support
for travel, lodging, and meals.

Mentored Research Project
In addition to the Summer Training Program, fellows will work with an RETI faculty
mentor on an original study aimed at examining an ethical issue related to HIV
prevention research. A small grant of up to $20,000 will be provided to each fellow
on the basis of a written mentored research proposal approved by the Institute’s
Multidisciplinary Advisory Board.

Eligibility
Applicants must have: (a) a doctoral, medical or equivalent degree in social,
behavioral, medical, nursing, public health or related fields, (b) demonstrated
scholarship in HIV prevention research; and (c) 6 years or less post-doctoral
academic experience.

Application
· The application form, official transcript from last completed degree, and  current
vitae
· A 300-word description of your HIV research training and experience (description
of projects, populations, community-partnerships) and scholarship (i.e.
publications, presentations at scientific meetings), and immediate and long-term
research and career goals.
· A 300-word statement describing your reasons for interest in the RETI, relevant
research ethics training or experience, and areas of HIV research ethics that you
would like to explore in the mentored research project.
· 2 letters of recommendation.

Deadlines
Applications must be received by May 13, 2011. Applicants will be notified of award
decisions by June 10, 2011. For more information, please contact Dr. Celia B.
Fisher, Institute Director, at EthicsInst at Fordham.edu or (718) 817-3793.


For application and additional information please visit www.Fordham.edu/EthicsInstitute



-- 
Dr. Leora Lawton
Executive Director, Berkeley Population Center
 & Lecturer, Sociology Dept.
112A Survey Research Center
Corner Channing & Bowditch
(510) 643-1270 (office)
(510) 928-7572 (cell)
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