The 2019 Easter Tragedy On Easter Sunday, 21st April 2019, an extremist group carried out coordinated attacks which targeted Sri Lankan civilians at their places of worship and socialization. While the lives lost did include foreign nationals, the majority were those of locals who were unrelated to the cause of the extremist group.…
Journal ArticleThe association between emotional eating and depressive symptoms: a population-based twin study in Sri Lanka Moritz P. Herle, Carol Kan, Kaushalya Jayaweera, Anushka Adikari, Sisira Siribaddana, Helena M.S. Zavos, Milana Smolkina, Athula Sumathipala, Clare Llewellyn, Khalida Ismail, Matthew Hotopf, Janet Treasure & Frühling Rijsdijk May 2019 Epidemiology and Genomics, Volume 4, Article e4, Pages…
Is counselling compulsory after traumatic events?
Sinhala Article: How can minds troubled by the attacks recover?
Sinhala Article: Just as we repair the churches that fell on Easter Sunday, let us build the psyches that fell with them.
‘Refrain from unethical research’
Sinhala Article: The Easter Sunday terror attack with a psychological approach.
After the carnage; a time to heal.
South Asian Early Development & Research Capacity Building ProjectThe Medical Research Council of the United Kingdom (MRC-UK) launched ‘Confidence in Global Mental Health Research: Institutional “pump-priming” awards to develop new opportunities in Global Mental Health Research’ in July 2017 . Through these awards, the MRC-UK offered a one year grant opportunity to lay the grounds…
