Roles:
- Program Director, Health Services and Global Research, CIRA
- Research Associate, CIRA
Contact:
Biography:
Dini Harsono is a Program Director at Yale University’s Center for Interdisciplinary Research on AIDS (CIRA), overseeing the center’s initiatives and programs focused on health services and global research. She leads the coordination of CIRA’s international research programs, the HIV, mobility, and displacement initatives, and the Yale Global HIV/AIDS Research Network - a faculty network part of the Yale Institute for Global Health.
Trained in health psychology, her research interests include applying mixed methods approaches to understand the behavioral aspects of human health and the uptake of evidence-based practice to improve health outcomes and access, particularly related to HIV, mental health, and substance use in the resource-limited settings. She has led and published HIV-related literature review projects and is experienced in designing quantitative and qualitative data collection instruments.
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.
CIRA Affiliated Projects:
