Ms Nayantara Wijayanandana
Research Student - MPhil/PhD - Epidemiology & Population Health
United Kingdom
I joined LSHTM as a Research Degree Student in January 2016 part-time while working at Sanofi Pasteur as Regional Epidemiologist AMESA (Africa, Middle-East, South Asia) on dengue and meningitis disease burden studies.
My prior health work experience includes working at the Malaria Consortium, The World Bank, Tufts-New England Medical Centre, and the Public Health Department of the Municipal Council in Colombo, Sri Lanka.
I did my MSc at LSHTM in PHDC in August 2007. I also have a MA in Communications & Technology at Georgetown University, and a BA in Biology from Clark University.
As an epidemiologist, I have focused exclusively on infectious disease epidemiology, specifically in Malaria, Dengue, and Meningitis. My research interests have also been in e-Health/mHealth initiatives, surveillance system strenthening, and projects working with community health workers.
Affiliations
Centres
Teaching
DL Tutor for Basic Epidemiology, Basic Statistics, Communicable Disease Control.
DL MSc Project Supervision.
Tutor for SME, STEPH
Research
I am doing my PhD research project on dengue epidemiology in Sri Lanka: I am focusing on the transmission dynamics of dengue looking at the spatial heterogeneity, the transmission intensity, and the impact of population mobility.