Rena Janamnuaysook works as a Program Manager for Implementation Science at the Institute of HIV Research and Innovation (IHRI) in Bangkok, Thailand, where she established the Tangerine Clinic as the first transgender-led health clinic in the region. She manages and provides technical guidance for the development and implementation of HIV research and programs for key populations in Thailand and in Asia. Rena is one of the program fellows of the NIH CHIMERA D43 program which is part of the IeDEA network program to learn to conduct the HIV and mental health implementation research.
She has also worked as Project Management Specialist in HIV Key Populations for the US Agency for International Development and was a co-founder of the Thai Transgender Alliance, the first transgender-owned human rights organization in Thailand. Rena received a master degree in international development from the University of Birmingham, United Kingdom and is currently doing her PhD at Amsterdam Institute for Global Health and Development, University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands.
