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…
Basic & Advanced Courses in Bioethics
The 2006 Kebithigollewa Tragedy The Kebithigollewa massacre occurred on 15th June 2006 when a Sri Lankan civilian bus was targeted in a claymore attack by a violent terrorist organization. The U.S and the SLMM claimed that a terrorist organization, active within the country at the time, was the perpetrator. The Kebithigollewa incident involved a state…
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.
Symposium on forensic genetic services, from pre-tsunami luxury to post tsunami necessity
Evidence based Interventions for Disaster related Mental Ill-health
The tsunami: A window of opportunity for policy impact On the 26th of December 2004, a magnitude 9.3 Mw earthquake occurred along Northern Sumatra and the Nicobar and Andaman Islands, this resulted in a catastrophic tsunami which affected 12 countries; of these, four countries (Indonesia, Sri Lanka, India and Thailand) were hit the worst. The…
Warning of legal disaster: DSG calls for modern forensic services with DNA
On a DNA trail…..
Forensic Genetic Services Symposium on forensic genetic services; held in February 2005. Newspaper Publications
Ethics of trauma research
A National Plan of Action to support traumatized tsunami survivors is on the table: Helping them to live again Read the Online Article