Welcome to the new IAEN!
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| Posted | 09/07/2007
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| Description | Welcome to the New IAEN!We are pleased to let you know that the International AIDS Economics Network (IAEN) is in the process of being reorganized. As you may know, there has been a hiatus in the IAEN's activities over the past two years, due largely to a gap in our funding. Although we are still seeking new funding to maintain the network in the coming years, the generosity of a few of our long-term institutional supporters has allowed us to revive the organization and re-establish its place as a leading resource for economists and policy makers involved in the fight against AIDS. During the last IAEN symposium, which took place in Toronto, Canada in August 2006, participants in the symposium nominated a small group of long-standing IAEN members to serve as an interim organizing committee for the network. The committee, whose members are listed below, agreed to serve as IAEN's leadership until replaced by a board elected by IAEN's global membership. The website remains situated at www.iaen.org. However, we have moved from a server at ForumOne, where the site has been located for the last 8 years, to our new server at Boston University. The IAEN would like to thank ForumOne for their many years of support to the network. We would also like to thank Boston University for agreeing to place IAEN on their server and to contribute to the process of making this website useful to economists and policymakers involved in HIV/AIDS. We are working to update the website to assure that it contains the latest information available about reports, publications and tools in the area of HIV/AIDS and economics. In addition to relocating the website, we have also incorporated and registered the IAEN as a not-for-profit, tax exempt organization with 501(c)(3) status in the United States. This status allows us to accept tax deductible donations and to apply for grants from foundations and donors. We have also opened an IAEN bank account. This is important, because following the last meeting of the IAEN in Toronto, a number of individuals and organizations indicated they would contribute start-up funds to the new IAEN. We have already received some of these contributions, which have helped us to revive the website and will cover some of our management costs in the coming year. At last count, the IAEN mailing list included more than 10,000 people from all over the world. Because the website has not been active for some time, however, we are aware that some of our original members are no longer involved in this field, and new potential members may be interested in joining. Our first step toward electing a new leadership, therefore, is to confirm our membership roster. If you wish to become or remain a voting member of the International AIDS Economics Network, please fill in the form on the Members page. Membership is free and ensures that you will receive updates from IAEN and maintain voting priveleges. A new roster of members will be created on 30 September 2007. Only individuals who re-confirm their membership by this date will be invited to nominate and vote for the leadership of IAEN. Your contact details will not be used for any purpose other than the IAEN mailing list and voting roster, nor will they be released to any other individual or organization. As soon as the new membership roster is available, we will send out a call for nominations to the IAEN board. In the meantime, we will be continuing to update the website and plan for future IAEN activities. Please feel free to contact me at steven.forsythe@gmail.com if you have any questions or suggestions about this process or would like to make a contribution to IAEN. Thanks and all the best, Steven Forsythe, PhD On behalf of the IAEN Interim Organizing Committee: John Vincent Fieno, RTI International
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