GHRU Trainee Thilini Chandrasiri, Faculty of Medicine, University of Kelaniya, won the competitive GHR SPARC Award (Short Placement Award for Research Collaboration) and undertook a research collaboration at the Faculty of Medicine, Imperial College London.
GHRU research presented at the CCPSL Academic Sessions
Thilini Chandrasiri presented a comprehensive review paper at the 29th Annual Academic Sessions 2024 of the College of Community Physicians of Sri Lanka
- 27th September 2024
GHRU research presented at the SLMA Congress
Thilini Chandrasiri presented her research at the 137th Anniversary International Medical Congress of the Sri Lanka Medical Association.
- 27th September 2024
Supporting the 3rd NIHR Academy Global Health Research Member event
GHRU Trainee Chahat Arora supported the recent NIHR Members event as a facilitator for the session- Policy Impact in an NIHR Global Research Professorship.
GHRU Trainee awarded The Global Development Hub Fellows Fund
GHRU Trainee Thilak Wanasinghe, Faculty of Medicine, University of Kelaniya, secured a student fellowship under the Global Development Hub Fellows Fund.
- 7th August 2024
GHRU Summer School 2024
GHRU Summer School 2024 took place at NTU, Singapore from the 22nd to 26th July
- 30th July 2024
GHRU Research presented at the ADA’s 84th Scientific Sessions
Dr. R.Guha Pradeepa presented a poster at the American Diabetes Association's 84th Scientific Sessions, organized at Orlando, Florida, USA between June 21-24, 2024.
- 29th July 2024
RESPIRE Stakeholder Engagement Champions meeting
Dr Menka Loomba presented at the RESPIRE Stakeholder Engagement Champions meeting on the 29th May 2024
- 7th June 2024
My research visit to Bangladesh
Dr Wubin Xie, a Senior Research Fellow at Nanyang Technological University, Singapore,
undertook a research visit at BRAC University, Bangladesh, supported by the NIHR 132960.
- 6th February 2024
The ICAI’s visit to unit partners in North India
On the 30 November 2023, the ICAI Team visited the North India Site of the NIHR GHRU on Diabetes and Cardovascular Disease.
- 26th January 2024
Developing Skills and Knowledge through NIHR GHR SPARC Award
Lathika Athuada, a Postdoctoral Researcher from the University of Kelaniya, Sri Lanka, undertook a career placement with Imperial College Business School. The placement was supported by a Short Placement Award for Research Collaboration (SPARC), funded by NIHR Academy.
- 28th October 2023
Visit to Study Sites in Sri Lanka
Petya Atanasova - a PhD student from Imperial College London, working on the determinants of children nutritional choices & behavioral interventions for food behavior change, visited study sites in Sri Lanka.
- 30th August 2023
NIHR GHR CADA-R2-004 awarded to Prof Madawa Chandratilake
Prof Madawa Chandratilake, Cadre Chair and Professor, Faculty Dean, Department of Medical Education, University of Kelaniya, Sri Lanka was awarded the NIHR GHR CADA-R2-004. The award was used to organise a workshop on Communicating Research.
- 29th August 2023
Skill Development of Primary Healthcare (PHC) Teams
A training course designed to enable ASHA workers to acquire the necessary competencies ng to improve the quality of healthcare services provided by PHC teams.
- 19th April 2023
GHRU Supporting World Health Day 2023
For 75 years, the World Health Organisation has been committed to promoting Health for all & serving the vulnerable.
This is the Story of Health.
This is the Story of Health.
- 12th April 2023
Raising awareness of the NIHR global health research portfolio
Representatives from the NIHR visited the NCD Surveillance site in Dinajpur, Bangladesh.
- 30th March 2023
GHRU Trainee research visit to Imperial College London
Ananya Gupta, a PhD student from the LKC School of Medicine, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, undertook a career development placement with the School of Public Health, Imperial College London, supported by the iHealth T2D, COV-Ind-UK and NIHR 132960.
- 24th March 2023
GHRU Postdoctoral research visit
Dr Awais Butt, a regular medical officer at Services Hospital, Lahore, undertook an research visit at LKC School of Medicine, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, supported by the NIHR 132960.
- 24th March 2023
Award for poster presentation
This year the MQScienceFestival challenged researchers to create a 3 minute 'TikTok' poster. This poster ‘Prevalence and predictors for anxiety and depression in residents of Lahore, Pakistan. A community-based surveillance program from LMIC’ by Afshan Shahid, Service Institute of Medical Sciences (SIMS), Pakistan, was awarded 2nd place by the judging panel.
- 28th October 2022
2022 Emerging Leaders cohort: CVD and Infectious diseases
The 2022 Emerging Leaders Seminar took place in Buenos Aires, Argentina and brought together a team of Emerging Leaders from 17 countries across five continents.
- 28th October 2022
Ten Global Health Research Units announced to improve health outcomes for people living in LMICs
The NIHR Global Health Research Unit on Diabetes and Cardiovascular disease in South Asia has been awarded funding under the programmes second call.
- 21st September 2022
Addressing the rise in diabetes and heart disease in South Asia
As rates of diabetes and heart disease rapidly rise among South Asian populations, NIHR-funded researchers are developing unique resources and novel approaches to understand and prevent their key risk factors.
- 17th June 2022
Living near fast food restaurants in South Asia may increase risk of type 2 diabetes
Globally, the prevalence of type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM) is increasing. An NIHR-funded study, published in PLOS Medicine, suggests that living near fast food restaurants increases the risk of developing the condition.
- 27th April 2022
NIHR SPARC with Imperial College Business School
Aarthi Raveendiran, a PhD student from the Madras Diabetes Research Foundation, India undertook a career placement ‘Widening Horizons of Knowledge: Spatial Statistics and Data Analysis in Health Care ’ with Imperial College London supported by a Short Placement Award for Research Collaboration (SPARC), funded by NIHR Academy.
- 30th September 2021