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Dini Harsono, MSc

Program Director, Health Services and Global Research

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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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Research

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

Research Projects

Research at a Glance

Yale Co-Authors

Frequent collaborators of Dini Harsono's published research.

Publications

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2025

2024

2023

2022

Academic Achievements & Community Involvement

Activities

  • activity

    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