Others

Workshops and training

• Invited speaker at the 1^st International Conference Series on 3R’s Research & Progress Advances in Animal Models and Cutting-Edge Research in Alternatives, November 19^th & 20^th 2020, Hyderabad, TS, India
• Key organiser and Resource person at the workshop on ‘Establishing a culture of care through harmonization of Ethics Review’, UoC, Jan 2020.
• Invited Speaker at the Seminar on ‘One-welfare’ at the University of Sabaragamuwa, Sri Lanka
• Invited speaker at the International Course on Laboratory Animal Science, Malaysia 2019: FELASA Category B (MICLAS) (19th – 30th August 2019)
• Represented Sri Lanka on invitation at the ‘International Workshop on Tackling Diet Related Non-communicable Diseases in Asia: a Regional Approach to Improve Response Capacities’ organized by the National Institute of Hygiene and Epidemiology and the International Development Research Center, Canada at Hanoi, Vietnam, 19-22 November 2018.
• Coordinator/Resource person – Certificate Course on Postgraduate Research, RPFC, Faculty of Medicine, Colombo. 2018
• Resource person at the Pre-seminar-Workshop on Bioethics in Animal Research at the 1^st ILAVA-IALAS-PRC IPB Joint International Seminar on Laboratory Animal Science in Bogor, Indonesia, 23 July 2018.
• Resource person at the 1^st international conference on Medical Humanities, 2018
• Represented Sri Lanka on invitation at the ‘Intensifying Food Systems and Health: Emphasis on Antimicrobial use in Agricultural Systems’ from 4-6 April 2018 at Jaipur, Rajasthan, India.
• Coordinator/resource person – workshops for Research trainers and trainees, organized by Research Promotion and Facilitation Center (RPFC), Faculty of Medicine, Colombo 2014-2017.
• Resource person/ organizing committee member – 1^st international conference on Medical Humanities, Colombo, Sri Lanka, July 2018.
• Organizing Secretary – Annual Research Symposium, Faculty of Medicine, University of Colombo, 2017.
• Organizing Chair – 1^st SLAYS Forum ‘Research for Impact: March of the Young Scientists’ and 1^st SLAYS 3MT Thesis competition, 2017.
• Coordinator/resource person – workshops for Research trainers and trainees, organized by Higher Education for the Twenty-first Century (HETC), Faculty of Medicine, Colombo 2012-2014.
• Organizing Chair – 5^th Annual Scientific Sessions of SLALAS ‘3Rs and beyond: Joining forces towards alternatives to animal experimentation’, 2017.
• Organizing Co-secretary – 1^st Symposium of the College of Biochemists of Sri Lanka, 2016.
• Participated (through selection) at the ‘Training workshop on Developing Leadership Talents of Women in Science, Technology and Innovation, 18-22 July 2016, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.
• Resource person – workshop on “International certificate course on laboratory animal science”, Organized by the Faculty of Medicine, University of Colombo in collaboration with the Utrecht University, Netherlands, December, 2011.
• Resource person – Certificate course in Laboratory animal sciences, Organized by SLALAS, 2015-2018 (Organizer 2017 and 2018)