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Flashback 2021
Year 2021 Another eventful year has passed by and we would like to summarize the events, achievements and work of DoCM in the year 2021. DoCM academic staff had several important milestones in 2021. Dr Gayani Amarasinghe has been promoted […]
DoCM members received top Awards in the first-ever RUSL Research Excellence Awards Ceremony
Most Outstanding Senior Researcher, Researcher with the Highest H-Index and Researcher with the Highest Citations Prof Agampodi, chair professor of the department, was awarded the Most Outstanding Researcher (total score 1461), Researcher with the highest H-Index (23) and the Researcher […]
A new Policy Brief on Assessing Household Food Insecurity
Background COVID-19 pandemic has multifaceted impact on health, nutrition and wellbeing of families, specially those who are already living with poverty. In 2020, World Food Programme’s Nutrition-Sensitive Food Assistance for Assets Program in Sri Lanka has conducted a baseline survey […]
Prof Suneth Agampodi is listed among the World’s Top 2% Scientists.
Stanford team have created a publicly available database of over 100,000 top scientists. This list provides standardized information on citations, h-index, co-authorship adjusted hm-index, citations to papers in different authorship positions and a composite indicator. Separate data are shown for […]
RAPCO researchers receive two more awards
Since its launch, Rajarata Pregnancy Cohort has received many national awards. The most recent addition to this list was for the research paper titled “Do You Know Why She is Worried?”: Fear Inducing Factors as Perceived by Pregnant Women in […]
New guidelines for the diagnosis and investigation of anaemia in pregnancy
New threshold values for anaemia in second and third trimesters of pregnancy The most recent circular issued by the Family Health Bureau, Sri Lanka has changed the previous guideline on thresholds for anaemia in pregnancy. The previous guideline recommended a […]
Two new research papers on maternal health and leptospirosis
DoCM researchers has published two new papers in leading international peer reviewed, indexed journals this week. The first paper is on the household food insecurity (HFI). The team or researchers led by Pro.Thilini Agampodi has validated a simple self applied […]
Dr.Dinesha Jayasundara received the Tissa Vitarana Gold Medal for Microbiology
Consistent performance… Dr.Dinesha Jayasundara, MPhil trainee of the DoCM and lecturer, department of Microbiology, FMAS, RUSL has received the prestigious Tissa Vitarana Gold Medal for Post Graduate Diploma in Medical Microbiology. Previously, she scored the highest aggregate in the selection […]
RUSL Researchers officially launched the ECLIPSE project
Ensuring partnership with all stakeholders ECLIPSE is entirely based on the concept of community engagement and involvement (CEI). This local ECLIPSE community involves a wide range of stakeholders. The ECLIPSE launch event was a formal introduction and launch of the […]
Dr.Nuwan Darshana Wickramasinghe to deliver the F A Wickramasinghe Oration
Dr.Nuwan Wickramasinghe. MBBS, MSc, (Community Medicine, MSc(Applied Epidemiology, MD (Community Medicine, will deliver the prestigious F A Wickramasinghe Oration of the Sri Lanka College of Community Physicians this year. Dr. Nuwan Darshana Wickramasinghe is a Board Certified Specialist in Community […]