Awards and Grants

Awards and grants

  • 2017
    Vice Chancellors Award
    Vice Chancellors Award for Research Excellence, Postgraduate Institute of Medicine, University of Colombo
  • 2016, 2015, 2010
    President’s Award
    President’s Award for Scientific Publications, Presidential Secretariat and National Research Council, Sri Lanka 2016, 2015, 2010
  • 2008
    Research Award
    Research Award for Foreign Students, Second Place,
    Graduate School of Medicine, University of Tokyo, Japan.2008
  • 2017
    World Summit Awards
    World Summit Awards `{`Health and Wellbeing`}` 2017. District Nutrition Monitoring System (DNMS). DNMS a mobile App to track nutritional status of children in three districts in Sri Lanka. (This App was developed by Health Informatics Society of Sri Lanka (HISSL) and I was a member of the implementation team). 2017
  • 2017
    Commonwealth Digital Health Awards
    Commonwealth Digital Health Awards 2017. Commonwealth Award for Reproductive Health Category for Electronic Reproductive Health Management Information System (eRHMIS). (I supervised this project and involved in implementation).
  • 2016
    e-Swabhimani Award
    e-Swabhimani Award 2016. National Best e-Content Award in the eHealth Category was won by the District Nutrition Monitoring System (DNMS). This App was developed by the Health Informatics Society of Sri Lanka (HISSL) and I was a member of the implementation team.
  • 2016
    Commonwealth Digital Health Awards
    Commonwealth Digital Health Awards 2016. Commonwealth Award for mHealth for Lower- and Middle-Income Countries (LMICs) for District Nutrition Monitoring System (DNMS). (This App was developed by Health Informatics Society of Sri Lanka (HISSL) and I was a member of the implementation team).
  • 2016
    mBillionth Award
    mBillionth Award for District Nutrition Monitoring System (DNMS) `{`Best mobile application in early stage`}` 2016. (This App was developed by Health Informatics Society of Sri Lanka (HISSL) and I was a member of the implementation team).
  • 2008
    Honjo International Scholarship
    Honjo International Scholarship Foundation scholarship, Japan 2008
  • 2007
    Otsuka Toshimi Scholarship
    Otsuka Toshimi Scholarship Foundation scholarship, Japan 2007
  • 2007
    Asia 21 Foundation scholarship
    Asia 21 Foundation scholarship, Japan 2007
  • 2017
    Colombo University Research Grant
    Colombo University Research Grant (Principal Investigator)2017
  • 2015
    Informatics Education Grants
    Informatics Education Grants, USA (Principal Investigator) 2015
  • 2013
    Sri Lanka Medical Association Research Grant
    Sri Lanka Medical Association Research Grant (Principal Investigator) 2013
  • 2013
    Grant-in-Aid for Young Scientists from the Ministry of Education
    Grant-in-Aid for Young Scientists from the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology, Japan. (Co-Investigator) 2013
  • 2012
    US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) Injury Mini-grant
    US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) Injury Mini-grant through TEPHINET, USA. (Principal Investigator) 2012
  • 2008
    Fuji Xerox Setsutaro Kobayashi Memorial Fund
    Fuji Xerox Setsutaro Kobayashi Memorial Fund, Japan (Principal Investigator)
  • 2008
    Study Group for Trauma System Development at the International Medical Center of Japan
    Study Group for Trauma System Development at the International Medical Center of Japan, Japan (Co-Investigator)2008
  • 2007
    Web-Based Injury Surveillance System
    Web-Based Injury Surveillance System, Nagaoka University of Technology, Japan (Co-Investigator)