Prof. Kihara Masahiro, MD, PhD, Head of the Department of Global Health and Socio-epidemiology, Kyoto University School of Public Health, Japan and team visited the Research Institute for Health Sciences on 27 January 2015 to meet with Prof. Suwat Chariyalertsak, the Director at the RIHES. The meeting aimed to plan for future collaboration on HIV/AIDS academic research.