COVID 19: Impact, Mitigation, Opportunities and Building ResilienceTheme : From Adversity to SerendipityCOVID 19: Impact, Mitigation, Opportunities and Building ResilienceTheme : From Adversity to Serendipity27th 28th January 2021 BMICH, Colombo, Sri Lanka
Workshop on the Post Disaster Role of Media Representatives A one day workshop was held on the 15th of May 2019 at the Ministtry of disaster management, Sri Lanka. The resource persons who spoke at the workshop included Senior Consultant Psychiatrist Prof. Athula Sumathipala, Dr.Kanthi Hettigoda, Dr.Rohan Rathnayake, Dr. Chathiri suraweera, Dr Dhanuja…
Bioethics, Basic & Advanced Courses, 2007 A basic & advanced courses in bioethics was held on 13th January 2007 at Sri Lanka Foundation Institute, Colombo 7 from 9.00am to 12.00noon. Experts from India, Pakistan, Philippines, Bangladesh, Indonesia, Thailand and Sri Lanka were resource persons for this meeting. We trained 100 professionals from 6 Universities…
Global to Local, Conflict & Disaster: Ethical Post-tsunami Research Prof. Sumathipala invited as speaker at the workshop; ‘Global to Local, Conflict & Disaster: Ethical Post-tsunami Research’. Organised by the Transcultural Special Interest Group Conference, Royal College of Psychiatrists, UK; 25th October 2005.
Evidence based Interventions for Disaster related Mental Ill-health
Forensic Genetic Services Symposium on forensic genetic services; held in February 2005. Newspaper Publications
Management of Psychological Effects in Children after Disaster A workshop on the “Management of Psychological Effects in Children after Disaster” was held on the 30th of January 2005 at the Lady Ridgeway Hospital. It was conducted targeting psychiatrists, psychologists, medical officers, paediatricians, community physicians & general practitioners. The workshop was organized by the Institute for…
Ethics of Trauma Research: Lets Prevent Re-traumatising the Traumatised A workshop was held on the 28th January 2005 under the title of ‘Ethics of Trauma Research: Lets Prevent Re-traumatising the Traumatised’. This was held immediately after the Tsunami because we foresaw exploitation of the survivors of tsunami for easy and cheap research.