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2010
Wellcome Trust Bioethics grant Building capacity in Sri Lanka on veterinary ethics and policy PI Dr Vijitha Perera,
Wellcome Trust Use of BG to explore overlaps between depression and metabolic syndrome in Sri Lanka (The Colombo Twin and Singleton Study (CoTaSS) follow up)

 

2008
The Wellcome Trust A supplementary grant population based twin study on common mental disorders in Sri Lanka
The Wellcome Trust – International  engagement award Multiples and twins engaging in research through cultural activities
Wellcome Trust Master's Fellowship in Public Health and Tropical Medicine  16.      
Wellcome Trust  Bioethics grant Building capacity in Sri Lanka to conduct research into ethical issues in health care and research
 

 

2007
WHO Colombo 
Development, execution and evaluation of a training programme for OPD doctors in Eastern province in Sri Lanka, for identification, treatment and referral of epilepsy, psychosis, severe depression, MUC and heavy alcohol use

 

2006
The World Bank & Ministry of Health, Sri Lanka.  Island wide mental health survey; community and school based, and attitude survey in Sri Lanka.
The Wellcome Trust Bioethics grant – a conference grant for a meeting titled; ‘Disaster related research and ethics for the developing world in global context’
The Wellcome Trust A training grant for a basic and advanced course on bioethics titled ‘Ethics; a friend of research.

 

2005
WHO Colombo
Getting 15 years of research on medically unexplained symptoms into policy and practice; a poster, training manual and workshops in Sri Lanka (including evaluation of training)

 

2004
The Welcome Trust
Bioethics grant. Projects grant (1 year) for the project titled ‘Informed consent in Sri Lanka; current practices, quality of the information leaflets, consent forms and participants understanding of the process.

 

2003
The Welcome Trust
Bioethics grant to hold a Bioethics training workshop in Sri Lanka
The Welcome Trust  A population based twin study on common mental disorders in Sri Lanka.

 

2002
A supplementary funding for the above project

 

2000
The Welcome Trust. An International Research Initiative Grant for 2 years to carry out preliminary work of
establishing a Population based Twin Registry in Sri Lanka.

 

1999
The Welcome Trust  ‘A randomized controlled trial of CBT Vs structured care for patients with medically unexplained symptoms in general medical care in Sri Lanka.   CBT was administered by Primary care doctors.

 

1997
The Welcome Trust
‘A randomized controlled trial of CBT, to test the feasibility of an intervention aimed at improving the management of patients with medically unexplained symptoms
in Sri Lanka’

 

 

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