HIV/AIDS and Reproductive Health
There will be an upcoming opportunity to learn about data sets available to do population-based research in Vietnam. Jennifer Hirsch, co-director of CPRC's Developmental Infrastructure Core and co-convener of the HIV/AIDS & Reproductive Health SRAG, has some colleagues visiting from Hanoi later in October, and they have agreed to meet with CPRC investigators to walk them through the best of a dozen or so large data sets. They won't be bringing the data sets, but if the meeting piques your interest we can subsequently facilitate access.
The meeting will take place under the general aegis of Sociomedical Sciences' Social Science Training and Research (STAR) Partnership (of which Jennifer Hirsch is PI)– an NICHD-funded social science research capacity-building project which represents a five-year collaboration between faculty at Mailman (primarily though not exclusively in SMS) and researchers at some of Vietnam’s leading research institutions. The overall objective of the STAR partnership is to create a national center of excellence in social science approaches to the study of HIV prevention, treatment, and care in Vietnam. HOWEVER, even if you are not an HIV-research person there are many ways in which the STAR partnership could potentially serve as a platform through which to develop research collaborations. A very densely populated country with one of the world’s highest abortion rates, as well as intense rural-urban migration and economic changes which have the country on track to leave behind ‘developing country’ status as early as 2020, Vietnam provides exciting contexts for population research—and the STAR partnership is committed to providing infrastructural support to help develop collaborations between Columbia faculty and our Vietnamese colleagues.
The STAR Partnership's goal is to facilitate inter-institutional collaborative social science research on Vietnam. We can also, in particular circumstances, incorporate you into our training activities in such a way as to support some short or medium term stays in Hanoi, if that's appealing.
The meeting time is listed below. If you are interested RSVP because the room we have currently reserved only seats 10, and there are currently six people expected. We can move to a bigger room but would need advance notice.
Tuesday, October 20
2:00-3:30pm
Room 555
Department of Sociomedical Sciences
722 West 168th Street