International Research Program Faculty Lead: Luke Davis, MD, MAS
Program Director: Dini Harsono, MSc
CIRA promotes international HIV research through a number of initiatives that aim to advance and disseminate our investigators' global work, explore strategies to adapt successful evidence-based practices from global settings to use in the US (“reciprocal innovation”, “global-to-local solutions”) and vice versa, and facilitate international research synergy and collaborations in low-resource, highly-affected areas and populations. With a focus on HIV equity, CIRA supports research that can have substantial impact on the global HIV epidemic utilizing key research skills shown to improve equity: implementation science, community-engaged research, HIV service integration, and digital health.
For questions about our international research initiatives and presentation opportunities, contact Dini Harsono (dini.harsono@yale.edu).
International research portfolio
Click here to view CIRA's international active research portfolio with links to project abstracts (updated April 19, 2022). CIRA organizes research-in-progress presentations with an emphasis on high-impact implementation research, networking opportunities to foster collaborations, and dissemination of updates on CIRA international research initiatives. Recording and slides of recent presentations can be accessed in the video archive.
International Visiting Fellow Program
The primary purpose of the International Visiting Fellow Program is to support CIRA investigators engaged in HIV research in an international setting to bring an established or prospective research partner to CIRA and Yale for a short visit. The program prioritizes visiting fellows from a country in regions with the highest burden of HIV/AIDS.
Collaboration with other international research programs at Yale
CIRA supports global health research partnerships across Yale schools and departments and works closely with the Yale Institute for Global Health. CIRA leads the coordination of the Yale Global HIV/AIDS Research Network (GARNER), co-sponsors HIV research-focused guest lectures and events, and organize discussions on funding opportunities to support international collaborative HIV-related research and training proposal development and submission.
HIV/AIDS in Humanitarian Crises
Launched in fall 2020, this initiative aims 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 in the US and globally. Building on this work, CIRA is expanding the program focus in 2023-2028 to populations experiencing mobility and displacement. For more information, visit the program webpages: 1) Humanitarian Crises, and 2) Mobility and Displacement.
