Collaborations of National & International Organization..

    

Several members of the academic staff have served and are currently on various committees of the WHO Geneva and South East Asia Region, National Science Foundation (NSF), the Ministry of Health, and the Ministry of Plan Implementation. For example the staff of the Department of Pharmacology act as advisors to the Ministry of Health on registration of drugs and cosmetics. The Department of Forensic Medicine and Toxicology runs the National Poisons Information Centre at the National Hospital of Sri Lanka. Several Faculty members served on the Presidential Task Force on Health Policy Implementation and on committees on Education Reforms and one faculty member on the Presidential Task Force on Prevention of Child Abuse and on Breast Feeding.

 

Several members serve on the council and expert committees of the Sri Lanka Medical Association (SLMA), the Sri Lanka Association for the Advancement of Science (SLAAS), Health Informatics Society of Sri Lanka (HISSL), Sri Lanka Sports Medicine Association (SLSMA) and on councils of professional colleges. Furthermore several Faculty members have over the years served as presidents of these associations and professional colleges.

 

Other institutions, which have been headed by Faculty members, include the National Dangerous Drugs Control Board, State Pharmaceuticals Corporation, State Pharmaceutical Manufacturing Corporation, the Sri Lanka Foundation Institute and the Institute of Indigenous Medicine.

 

The present Dean and a former Dean serves on the University Grants Commission.

 

Members of the Department of Psychological Medicine provide an honorary consultation service to the armed forces and to several non-governmental organizations and provides a Drug Information Service. The department of Forensic Medicine and Toxicology runs the National Poisons Information Centre at the National Hospital of Sri Lanka.