Lorway has held a CIHR New Investigator Award in HIV/AIDS Health Services and Population Health Research (2009-2014). He was also PI and Team Leader on a Canadian HIV Vaccine Initiative (CHVI) research program, which explored the acceptability of sex workers and frontline health workers with respect to hypothetical HIV vaccines in China, India and Kenya. Currently he is the PI on a CIHR operating grant that helps local community health workers from the male sex worker community in Nairobi to develop nonintrusive, community-friendly HIV/STI surveillance systems.