HIV, Mobility, and Displacement Program Faculty Lead: Kaveh Khoshnood
Program Director: Dini Harsono
CIRA launched an initiative focused on HIV/AIDS in humanitarian crises in fall 2020 to convene a series of symposia, webinars, and research activities, supported by the Kempf Memorial Fund from the MacMillan Center for International and Area Studies at Yale. The overarching goals were to foster multidisciplinary collaborations and identify key research questions related to the well-being of people with HIV or at risk for HIV and affected by humanitarian crises.
To expand and further the work of the humanitarian crises program, CIRA established the HIV, mobility, and displacement initiatives in 2023 as part of the Clinical and Health Services Research Core, to stimulate and support research and collaborations promoting status neutral HIV-related prevention and care among populations experiencing mobility and displacement.
For questions about this program, contact Dini Harsono (dini.harsono@yale.edu).
Activities:
- Projects
- HIV/AIDS Prevention and Treatment among Refugees and Forcibly Displaced Populations, principal investigators: Kaveh Khoshnood and Luke Davis
- Managing Health during Humanitarian Crises: Resilience, Establishing Health Priorities, and Impact on Health Care Workers, principal investigators: Julia Rozanova and Sheela Shenoi
- Symposia and webinars
- Symposium: Addressing HIV/AIDS in Humanitarian Crises: Perspectives from Lebanon, December 7, 2020, recording
- Symposium: Addressing HIV/AIDS, Mental Health, and Substance Use in Humanitarian Settings, April 4, 2022, recording
- Webinar: Ethics of HIV/AIDS-related Research and Practice in Humanitarian Settings, April 18, 2022, recording
- Workshop: Ethical Considerations for HIV/AIDS Research in Humanitarian Settings, May 19, 2022
- Webinar: Impact of Crises on Healthcare Workers: Current Evidence, Reflections, and Opportunities, December 14, 2023
- Webinar: The Ethics of Conducting Health Research in Humanitarian Settings: Principles, Practice, and Reflections from the Field, April 4, 2024, recording
- Peer-reviewed articles
- Harsono D, Peterson H, Nyhan K, Khoshnood K. Factors associated with HIV acquisition in the context of humanitarian crises: a scoping review protocol. JBI Evid Synth. 2022;20(7):1852-1860. doi:10.11124/JBIES-21-00135, full-text article
- Harsono D, Atre S, Peterson H, et al. A scoping review of factors associated with HIV acquisition in the context of humanitarian crises. AIDS Behav. 2024;28(12):4224-4273. doi:10.1007/s10461-024-04504-x, full-text article
- Garmroudi D, Harsono D, Atre S, et al. Ethical principles and practices in HIV acquisition research in humanitarian crises: a cross-sectional study. J Law Med Ethics. 2026;54(2):143-155. doi:10.1017/jme.2026.10246, full-text article
- Op-eds
- Tehrani, N. Opinion: World AIDS Day means asking who we still leave behind. The Connecticut Mirror, December 1, 2025, full-text article
- Graduate student fellowship
- Hanna Peterson (MPH ‘22)
- Swarali Atre (MPH ‘23)
- Winnie Ho (MPH ‘23)
- Dina Garmroudi (MPH ‘25)
- Jacqueline Jin (Yale-NUS ‘23)
- Nikki Tehrani (MPH ’26)