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    Dini Harsono, MSc

    Program Director, Health Services and Global Research

    Additional Titles

    Researcher, General Internal Medicine

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    Program Director, Health Services and Global Research

    Researcher, General Internal Medicine

    Biography

    Dini Harsono is a program director at the Center for Interdisciplinary Research on AIDS (CIRA), Yale School of Public Health, and a researcher in the Partnerships in HIV and Substance Use Research with Community-Informed eXpertise (PHOENIX) Lab, Department of Internal Medicine, Yale School of Medicine.

    She oversees the coordination of CIRA's programs that support HIV health services and global research, including the Clinical and Health Services Research Core, international research programs, the Yale Global HIV/AIDS Research Network, and the HIV, mobility, and displacement initiatives. As a researcher, she applies mixed methods approaches in support of studies and clinical trials that aim to improve outcomes across the HIV and addiction care cascades.

    Before coming to Yale, Dini held research and programmatic roles in the UK and Indonesia working in the fields of addiction, mental health, and HIV prevention. She earned her MSc in Psychological Approaches to Health at University of Leeds, and Bachelor in Psychology at Universitas Indonesia.

    Last Updated on July 30, 2026.

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    Overview

    Trained in health psychology, Dini is a social and behavioral researcher with a primary interest in identifying and addressing socio-ecological factors affecting the uptake of evidence-based HIV and substance use prevention and treatment programs. She is also interested in ethical research practices that promote equity in research participation and collaboration. She has extensive experience in designing and implementing qualitative and mixed methods research projects, and has served as an investigator in studies funded by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and other sources. She mentors undergraduate and graduate students, training fellows, junior faculty, and community partners in conducting literature reviews, pilot studies, and implementation evaluation projects.

    Other Projects

    • Managing health during humanitarian crises: Resilience, establishing health priorities, and impact on health care workers (2023-2025)

    Principal investigators: Drs. Julia Rozanova and Sheela Shenoi

    Funding: The Edward J. and Dorothy Clarke Kempf Memorial Fund, Yale MacMillan Center

    • HIV/AIDS in humanitarian crises (2020-2022)

    Principal investigators: Drs. Kaveh Khoshnood and Luke Davis

    Funding: The Edward J. and Dorothy Clarke Kempf Memorial Fund, Yale MacMillan Center

    • Project CIRCLE: CIRA international HIV research capacity and collaboration: An exploratory study (2019-2021)

    Principal investigators: Dr. Kaveh Khoshnood and Ms. Dini Harsono

    Funding: No funding

    Medical Research Interests

    Community Health Services; Ethics; Global Health; Health Care Quality, Access, and Evaluation; HIV; Program Evaluation; Public Health; Telemedicine

    Public Health Interests

    Behavioral Health; Conflict and Health; COVID-19; Ethics; Global Health; Qualitative Methods; Mental Health; HIV/AIDS; Substance Use, Addiction

    Research Projects

    Research at a Glance

    Yale Co-Authors

    Frequent collaborators of Dini Harsono's published research.

    Publications

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    Academic Achievements & Community Involvement

    Activities

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      International AIDS Society

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    Locations

    • Center for Interdisciplinary Research on AIDS

      Academic Office

      135 College Street, Ste 200

      New Haven, CT 06510

    Events

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