Seminars

Ongoing series that is open to the Yale community and nationally which provides interactive presentations related to ongoing collaborative interdisciplinary work on sex, gender, and alcohol use. Sex and gender are not explanatory variables, and seminars emphasize mechanisms underlying sex differences in alcohol use. Both Yale and internationally known researchers are invited to speak on sex, gender, and alcohol. Seminars are presented in-person and by Zoom for the audience.

This didactic is open to the Yale community and nationally which provides a structured didactic on the ABC’s of sex, gender, and alcohol science. Attendees benefit from this 6-month long course providing a foundational overview on alcohol, and sex and gender differences in alcohol. Example topics include: pharmacokinetics and pharmacodynamics, health-risks and consequences, risk factors of initiation and maintenance, neuroadaptation, withdrawal neurotoxicity and symptoms, stress-reactivity, psychiatric co-morbidities, stigma, social determinants of health, cultural factors, epidemiology, pharmacology, prevention, epi/genetics, environmental exposure, behavioral/pharmacological treatment approaches, and policy. Sex and gender are addressed across seminars. Format consists of didactic presentations followed by discussion. Seminars are presented in-person and by Zoom for the audience.