Mr Ruwan Ratnayake

Research Student - MPhil/PhD - Epidemiology & Population Health

London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine
Keppel Street
London
WC1E 7HT
United Kingdom

Email
Ruwan

I am an epidemiologist working on public health in humanitarian crises. I focus on the surveillance and control of cholera and epidemic diseases, policy guidance, spatial and mathematical modelling, and merging modern analytical methods with field epidemiology to solve problems. I also work on topics relating to noncommunicable diseases and community health in emergencies.

Affiliations

Department of Infectious Disease Epidemiology and International Health

Faculty of Epidemiology and Population Health

Research

cholera, humanitarian assistance, surveillance in crises, non-communicable disease management in crises, disease dynamics

Research Area

Disease control

Conflict

Infectious disease policy

Natural disasters

Modelling

Outbreaks

Surveillance

Epidemiology

GIS/Spatial analysis

Mathematical Modelling

Operational research

Implementation science

Disease and Health Conditions

Non-communicable diseases

Infectious diseases

Country

Congo

Cameroon

Zimbabwe

Syrian Arab Republic

Selected Publications

Disruption to water supply and waterborne communicable diseases in northeast Syria: a spatiotemporal analysis

Tabor, R; Almhawish, N; Aladhan, I; Tarnas, M; Sullivan, R; Karah, N; Zeitoun, M; RATNAYAKE, R; Abbara, A;

2023

Conflict and Health

Implementation of targeted cholera response activities, Cameroon.

Ouamba, JP; Mbarga, NF; Ciglenecki, I; RATNAYAKE, R; Tchiasso, D; Finger, F; Peyraud, N; Mounchili, I; Boyom, T; Yonta, C; Nwatchok, L; Mouhamadou, M; Ekedi, C; Marcel, J; Luquero, F; Ekah, F; Amani, A; Tamakloe, M; Boum, Y; Esso, L;

2023

Bulletin of the World Health Organization

Rapidly adapted community health strategies to prevent treatment interruption and improve COVID-19 detection for Syrian refugees and the host population with hypertension and diabetes in Jordan.

RATNAYAKE, R; Rawashdeh, F; AbuAlRub, R; Al-Ali, N; Fawad, M; Bani Hani, M; Zoubi, S; Goyal, R; Al-Amire, K; Mahmoud, R; AlMaaitah, R; Parmar, PK;

2022

International health

Heavy-tailed sexual contact networks and monkeypox epidemiology in the global outbreak, 2022.

Endo, A; Murayama, H; ABBOTT, S; RATNAYAKE, R; PEARSON, CA B; EDMUNDS, WJ; FEARON, E; FUNK, S;

2022

Science (New York, N.Y.)

Effectiveness of case-area targeted interventions including vaccination on the control of epidemic cholera: protocol for a prospective observational study.

RATNAYAKE, R; Peyraud, N; Ciglenecki, I; Gignoux, E; Lightowler, M; Azman, AS; Gakima, P; Ouamba, JP; Sagara, JA; Ndombe, R; Mimbu, N; Ascorra, A; Epicentre and MSF CATI Working Group,; Welo, PO; Mukamba Musenga, E; Miwanda, B; Boum, Y; CHECCHI, F; EDMUNDS, WJ; Luquero, F; Porten, K; Finger, F;

2022

BMJ Open

What we do know (and could know) about estimating population sizes of internally displaced people.

RATNAYAKE, R; ABDELMAGID, N; Dooley, C;

2022

Journal of Migration and Health

Inference is bliss: Simulation for power estimation for an observational study of a cholera outbreak intervention.

RATNAYAKE, R; CHECCHI, F; JARVIS, CI; EDMUNDS, WJ; Finger, F;

2022

PLoS neglected tropical diseases

Adaptation of a community health volunteer strategy for the management of hypertension and diabetes and detection of COVID-19 disease: a progamme for Syrian refugees in northern Jordan.

RATNAYAKE, R; Rawashdeh, F; Hani, MB; Zoubi, S; Fawad, M; Abualrub, R; Al-Ali, N; Goyal, R; Al-Amire, K; AlMaaitah, R; Parmar, P;