Biography

Prof. Pande Putu Januraga is Professor of Public Health and Preventive Medicine at the Faculty of Medicine, Universitas Udayana, Bali, Indonesia, and Adjunct Associate Professor at the Kirby Institute, UNSW Australia. He is the founding Head of the Center for Public Health Innovation (CPHI), Universitas Udayana, a research center with a sustained focus on HIV prevention, key population health, and implementation science in Indonesia.

Through CPHI, Prof. Januraga has led a series of nationally significant HIV program studies directly relevant to PrEP scale-up. These include a UNAIDS-DFAT-funded study on the strategic consolidation of PrEP delivery within the HIV continuum of care (2023), a community-based PrEP delivery models study in partnership with UNAIDS Indonesia (2024-2025), and a national randomized community trial of HIV self-testing among female sex workers across 23 priority districts (UNFPA-Global Fund, 2019-2020). CPHI, in collaboration with OUCRU Indonesia and the HIV AIDS Research Center at Atmajaya University, currently spearheads the PRYSMA Trial (2025-2028), a multi-site Indonesia-UK partnership evaluating doxycycline prophylaxis among MSM and transgender women.

Prof. Januraga also serves as the Lead National Consultant for Indonesia's HIV Joint Program Review 2023-2025 and the Lead Consultant for the Global Fund GC7 and GC8 HIV Funding Requests (2024-2026 and 2027-2029). He chairs JPHIV, the Indonesian Network of HIV Researchers and Academics, and has published over 74 Scopus-indexed articles, including in The Lancet HIV.