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SRC Director, Jim Wolf, interviewed on WFYI's Sound Medicine Barabara Lewis interviews Jim regarding his survey on perceptions of an influenza pandemic in Part 3 or her series, "Not If, But When -- Preparing for Pandemic." (Listen to WFYI Broadcast) IRSI Workgroups Promote International Partnerships China / Sun Yat-Sen University - Meili Niu (SYSU), Visiting Associate Professor in SPEA and Adjunct Associate Professor of Political Science, has joined IRSI as a Research Associate to help develop the China Studies Workgroup under the leadership of Wan-Ning Bao (Sociology). Sociologists David C. Bell and Carrie Foote have undertaken a study of the behaviors of "gatekeepers" in the transmission of HIV/AIDS among heterosexual partners. Titled, Networks of Heterosexual Risk and HIV, this NIH-Funded project will extend over five years, during which Dr. Bell and his team will conduct interviews with HIV-positive individuals and their HIV-negative partners to determine motivations for risk-reducing behaviors. Study findings will inform interventions for preventing HIV among partners at risk of infection. (see PROJECTS) Kenya / Moi University - During the 2008-09 academic year Eunice Kamaara (Moi U) will work on various SSRN* initiatives with Jeanette Dickerson-Putman (Anthropology), including the editing and preparation of papers from the 2007 IU-MU International Symposium on Social Science Perspectives to HIV and AIDS in East Africa for publication. Harrison Maithya (Moi U) was in residence at IUPUI for 10 days in September 2008 to receive advanced training in anthropological data analysis methods in preparation for a collaborative study of HIV/AIDS orphan caregivers in Western Kenya in January 2009. (* Social Science Research Network, a core collaboration of the IUPUI-Moi U. Strategic Partnership.) WIPs -- Work-in-Progress Seminars
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