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'''Channa Jayasumana''' is a [[Sri Lanka]]n medical academic, politician, Cabinet Minister and is a member of the [[Parliament of Sri Lanka]] for the [[Anuradhapura Electoral District|Anuradhapura District]].
'''Channa Jayasumana''' is a [[Sri Lanka]]n medical academic, politician, Cabinet Minister, and member of the [[Parliament of Sri Lanka]] for the [[Anuradhapura Electoral District|Anuradhapura District]].


== Education ==
== Education ==
Channa Jayasumana was born to a middle-class Sinhalese family in down south, Sri Lanka. Both of his parents were government servants. He studied at the [[Kalutara Vidyalaya]] and was a famous athlete in his school days.
Channa Jayasumana was born into a middle-class Sinhalese family in the down-south, Sri Lanka. Both of his parents were government servants. He studied at the [[Kalutara Vidyalaya]] and was a famous athlete in his school days.
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Jayasumana entered the [[University of Peradeniya]]<ref>{{Cite web |title=Channa Jayasumana MBBS, PhD, FRCP Edin |url=https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=AtQUn2oAAAAJ&hl=en |access-date=2022-10-26 |website=scholar.google.com}}</ref> in 2001 and earned his medical degree( MBBS) in 2007.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Channa Jayasumana MBBS, PhD, FRCP Edin |url=https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=AtQUn2oAAAAJ&hl=en |access-date=2022-10-26 |website=scholar.google.com}}</ref> He has completed his one-year medical internship at Base Hospital, Nawalapitiya, under surgeon WG Jayawickrama and pediatrician Mohomad Nilam Jiffry.


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Jayasumana obtained his Doctorate of Philosophy (PhD) for the thesis ''"Toxicological Aspects of Sri Lankan Agricultural Nephropathy"'' from the Rajarata University of Sri Lanka with foreign training at California State University, Long Beach, USA.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Google Scholar |url=https://scholar.google.com/scholar?hl=en&as_sdt=0,5&q=channa+jayasumana&oq=ch |access-date=2023-05-10 |website=scholar.google.com}}</ref> Professor [https://scholar.google.com/citations?hl=en&user=F1gAWXsAAAAJ Sisira Siribaddana] of Rajarata University, Professor [https://www.csulb.edu/college-of-health-human-services/health-science/page/sarath-gunatilake-md-dr-p-h Sarath Gunatilake] of California State University, and Professor [https://science.kln.ac.lk/depts/chem/index.php/prof-p-a-paranagama Priyani Paranagama] of the University of Kelaniya were his PhD supervisors. Jayasumana is a fellow of the Royal College of Physicians (FRCP) in Edinburgh, UK.
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Jayasumana entered [[University of Peradeniya]]<ref>{{Cite web |title=Channa Jayasumana MBBS, PhD, FRCP Edin |url=https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=AtQUn2oAAAAJ&hl=en |access-date=2022-10-26 |website=scholar.google.com}}</ref> in 2001 and earned his medical degree( MBBS) in 2007.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Channa Jayasumana MBBS, PhD, FRCP Edin |url=https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=AtQUn2oAAAAJ&hl=en |access-date=2022-10-26 |website=scholar.google.com}}</ref> He has completed his one year medical internship at Base Hospital, Nawalapitiya under surgeon WG Jayawickrama and paediatrician Mohomad Nilam Jiffry.


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Jayasumana was a pioneering academic staff member of the Faculty of Medicine and Allied Sciences, Rajarata University of Sri Lanka. He joined the Rajarata University medical faculty as a junior lecturer in 2008 and was promoted to the post of senior lecturer in 2015. Jayasumana became a professor in pharmacology in 2016 at the age of 36. He broke the record for the youngest medical professor in Sri Lanka, which was earlier held by Professor Senaka Bibile. Bibile became a medical professor in 1958 at the age of 38.<ref>{{Citation |title=Seneka Bibile |date=2023-02-11 |url=https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Seneka_Bibile&oldid=1138732795 |work=Wikipedia |access-date=2023-04-26 |language=en}}</ref>
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Jayasumana obtained his Doctorate of Philosophy (PhD) for the thesis ''"Toxicological Aspects of Sri Lankan Agricultural Nephropathy"'' from the Rajarata University of Sri Lanka with a foreign training at California State University, Long Beach, USA<ref>{{Cite web |title=Google Scholar |url=https://scholar.google.com/scholar?hl=en&as_sdt=0,5&q=channa+jayasumana&oq=ch |access-date=2023-05-10 |website=scholar.google.com}}</ref>. Professor [https://scholar.google.com/citations?hl=en&user=F1gAWXsAAAAJ Sisira Siribaddana] of Rajarata University, Professor [https://www.csulb.edu/college-of-health-human-services/health-science/page/sarath-gunatilake-md-dr-p-h Sarath Gunatilake] of California State University, and Professor [https://science.kln.ac.lk/depts/chem/index.php/prof-p-a-paranagama Priyani Paranagama] of the University of Kelaniya were his PhD supervisors. Jayasumana is a fellow of the Royal college of physicians (FRCP) in Edinburgh, UK


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Jayasumana was the head of the Department of Pharmacology at the [[Rajarata University of Sri Lanka]] from 2015 until he entered parliament.
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Jayasumana was a pioneering academic staff member of the Faculty of Medicine and Allied Sciences, Rajarata University of Sri Lanka. He joined Rajarata University medical faculty as a junior lecturer in 2008 and promoted to the post of senior lecturer in 2015. Jayasumana became a Professor in Pharmacology in 2016 at the age of 36. He broke the record for youngest medical professor in Sri Lanka which was earlier held by Professor Senaka Bibile. Bibile became a medical professor on 1958 at the age of 38.<ref>{{Citation |title=Seneka Bibile |date=2023-02-11 |url=https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Seneka_Bibile&oldid=1138732795 |work=Wikipedia |access-date=2023-04-26 |language=en}}</ref>

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Jayasumana was the head of the Department of Pharmacology at the [[Rajarata University of Sri Lanka]] from 2015 until he entered the parliament.


== Research ==
== Research ==
He has done extensive research on drinking water, occupational exposure to pesticides and its association with chronic kidney disease highly prevalent in rural farming communities.<ref>{{Cite journal|last1=Jayasumana|first1=Channa|last2=Paranagama|first2=Priyani|last3=Agampodi|first3=Suneth|last4=Wijewardane|first4=Chinthaka|last5=Gunatilake|first5=Sarath|last6=Siribaddana|first6=Sisira|date=2015-01-18|title=Drinking well water and occupational exposure to Herbicides is associated with chronic kidney disease, in Padavi-Sripura, Sri Lanka|journal=Environmental Health|volume=14|issue=1|pages=6|doi=10.1186/1476-069X-14-6|issn=1476-069X|pmc=4417209|pmid=25596925}}</ref> Together with his doctoral advisor, [[Sarath Gunatilake]] at California State University, Long Beach, Prof. Jayasumana was awarded the [[AAAS Award for Scientific Freedom and Responsibility]] offered by American Association of Advancement of Science in 2019 for this work, citing "challenging circumstances."<ref>{{cite web | title = Recipients of the AAAS Award for Scientific Freedom and Responsibility | url = https://www.aaas.org/awards/scientific-freedom-and-responsibility/recipients | access-date = 2021-10-28 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20210817025417/https://www.aaas.org/awards/scientific-freedom-and-responsibility/recipients | archive-date = 2021-08-17}}</ref> It is the highest achievement by a Sri Lankan scientist to date.
He has done extensive research on drinking water, occupational exposure to pesticides, and their association with chronic kidney disease, which highly prevalent in rural farming communities.<ref>{{Cite journal|last1=Jayasumana|first1=Channa|last2=Paranagama|first2=Priyani|last3=Agampodi|first3=Suneth|last4=Wijewardane|first4=Chinthaka|last5=Gunatilake|first5=Sarath|last6=Siribaddana|first6=Sisira|date=2015-01-18|title=Drinking well water and occupational exposure to Herbicides is associated with chronic kidney disease, in Padavi-Sripura, Sri Lanka|journal=Environmental Health|volume=14|issue=1|pages=6|doi=10.1186/1476-069X-14-6|issn=1476-069X|pmc=4417209|pmid=25596925 |doi-access=free |bibcode=2015EnvHe..14....6J }}</ref> Together with his doctoral advisor, [[Sarath Gunatilake]] at California State University, Long Beach, Prof. Jayasumana was awarded the [[AAAS Award for Scientific Freedom and Responsibility]] offered by the American Association for the Advancement of Science in 2019 for this work, citing "challenging circumstances."<ref>{{cite web | title = Recipients of the AAAS Award for Scientific Freedom and Responsibility | url = https://www.aaas.org/awards/scientific-freedom-and-responsibility/recipients | access-date = 2021-10-28 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20210817025417/https://www.aaas.org/awards/scientific-freedom-and-responsibility/recipients | archive-date = 2021-08-17}}</ref> It is the highest achievement by a Sri Lankan scientist to date.


Jayasumana has authored 30 papers in indexed International journals. Further he is an author of the chapter “chronic tubulointerstitial nephritis” in Oxford Text book of Medicine. Prof. Jayasumana is included to the world’s top 2% scientists identified by stanford university in both 2021 and 2022.<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Ioannidis |first=John P. A. |date=2022-10-10 |title=September 2022 data-update for "Updated science-wide author databases of standardized citation indicators" |url=https://elsevier.digitalcommonsdata.com/datasets/btchxktzyw/4 |language=en |volume=4 |doi=10.17632/btchxktzyw.4}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |date=2022-10-20 |title=Two Professors from the Rajarata University of Sri Lanka are among the world’s top 2% of scientists for the 2nd consecutive time - Rajarata University of Sri Lanka |url=https://www.rjt.ac.lk/two-professors-from-the-rajarata-university-of-sri-lanka-are-among-the-worlds-top-2-of-scientists-for-the-2nd-consecutive-time/ |access-date=2022-10-26 |language=en-US}}</ref> The list was created by Professor John P. A. Ioannidis from Stanford University and his research team. It contains a publicly available database of 100,000 top scientists that provides standardised information on citations, h-index, co-authorship-adjusted hm-index, citations to papers in different authorship positions, and a composite indicator. Jayasumana’s contribution to the field of nephrology and toxicology with his post doctoral supervisor Prof [https://scholar.google.be/citations?user=EBTbo8MAAAAJ&hl=nl Marc de Broe] of the University of Antwerp, Belgium is highly recognised on many international platforms.
Jayasumana has authored 30 papers in indexed international journals. Further, he is an author of the chapter “''chronic tubulointerstitial nephritis''” in the Oxford Text book of Medicine. Prof. Jayasumana is included in the world's top 2% scientists identified by Stanford University in both 2021 and 2022.<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Ioannidis |first=John P. A. |date=2022-10-10 |title=September 2022 data-update for "Updated science-wide author databases of standardized citation indicators" |url=https://elsevier.digitalcommonsdata.com/datasets/btchxktzyw/4 |language=en |volume=4 |publisher=Elsevier BV |doi=10.17632/btchxktzyw.4}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |date=2022-10-20 |title=Two Professors from the Rajarata University of Sri Lanka are among the world's top 2% of scientists for the 2nd consecutive time - Rajarata University of Sri Lanka |url=https://www.rjt.ac.lk/two-professors-from-the-rajarata-university-of-sri-lanka-are-among-the-worlds-top-2-of-scientists-for-the-2nd-consecutive-time/ |access-date=2022-10-26 |language=en-US}}</ref> The list was created by Professor John P. A. Ioannidis from Stanford University and his research team. It contains a publicly available database of 100,000 top scientists that provides standardised information on citations, h-index, co-authorship-adjusted hm-index, citations to papers in different authorship positions, and a composite indicator. Jayasumana's contribution to the field of nephrology and toxicology with his postdoctoral supervisor Professor [https://scholar.google.be/citations?user=EBTbo8MAAAAJ&hl=nl Marc de Broe] of the University of Antwerp, Belgium is highly recognised on many international platforms.
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Channa Jayasumana is the author of seven books. In addition to medicine, his contributions are in the fields of history and philosophy.

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Channa Jayasumana authors seven books. In addition to medicine, his contributions are in the fields of history and philosophy.


== Politics ==
== Politics ==
Jayasumana was an active member of several student unions at [https://www.pdn.ac.lk University of Peradeniya]. As an student union leader, he actively involved with Sri Lankan politics in the presidential election held on 2005. Jayasumana contested for the parliamentary election held on August 2020 for the Anuradhapura electorate in North Central province and secured 133,980,<ref>{{Cite web |title=2020 GE: Anuradhapura District preferential votes |url=http://www.adaderana.lk/news.php?nid=66280 |access-date=2022-10-26 |website=www.adaderana.lk |language=en}}</ref> a recorded number of preferential votes. Following the election victory he entered in to the 16th parliament of Sri Lanka.
Jayasumana was an active member of several student unions at the [https://www.pdn.ac.lk University of Peradeniya]. As a student union leader, he was actively involved with Sri Lankan politics in the presidential election held on 2005. Jayasumana contested the parliamentary election held in August 2020 for the Anuradhapura electorate in North Central Province and secured 133,980,<ref>{{Cite web |title=2020 GE: Anuradhapura District preferential votes |url=http://www.adaderana.lk/news.php?nid=66280 |access-date=2022-10-26 |website=www.adaderana.lk |language=en}}</ref> a recorded number of preferential votes. Following the election victory, he entered the 16th parliament of Sri Lanka.


Jayasumana has been appointed as state minister of Production, Supply and Regulation of Pharmaceuticals in August 2020.<ref>{{Cite web|date=2020-08-12|title=Sri Lanka President appoints cabinet ministers, state ministers|url=https://economynext.com/sri-lanka-president-appoints-cabinet-ministers-state-ministers-72858,%20https://economynext.com/sri-lanka-president-appoints-cabinet-ministers-state-ministers-72858/|access-date=2020-08-13|website=EconomyNext}}{{Dead link|date=October 2021}}</ref> Following the mass resignation of the Sri Lankan cabinet in the wake of the [[2022 Sri Lankan protests]], he was appointed as the cabinet [[Minister of Health (Sri Lanka)|Minister of Health]] by President [[Gotabaya Rajapaksa]] on 18 April 2022.<ref>{{cite web |last1=Krishnasai |first1=C. |title=Sri Lankan president appoints 17 cabinet ministers amid calls for govt ouster |url=https://www.wionews.com/south-asia/sri-lankan-president-appoints-17-cabinet-ministers-amid-calls-for-govt-ouster-471796 |website=WION News |access-date=20 April 2022}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=President appoints 17 new Cabinet ministers |url=http://www.adaderana.lk/news/81891/president-appoints-new-17-member-cabinet |website=Ada Derana.lk |access-date=April 20, 2022}}</ref>
Jayasumana has been appointed as the state minister of Production, Supply and Regulation of Pharmaceuticals in August 2020.<ref>{{Cite web|date=2020-08-12|title=Sri Lanka President appoints cabinet ministers, state ministers|url=https://economynext.com/sri-lanka-president-appoints-cabinet-ministers-state-ministers-72858,%20https://economynext.com/sri-lanka-president-appoints-cabinet-ministers-state-ministers-72858/|access-date=2020-08-13|website=EconomyNext}}{{Dead link|date=October 2021}}</ref> Following the mass resignation of the Sri Lankan cabinet in the wake of the [[2022 Sri Lankan protests]], he was appointed as the cabinet [[Minister of Health (Sri Lanka)|Minister of Health]] by President [[Gotabaya Rajapaksa]] on 18 April 2022.<ref>{{cite web |last1=Krishnasai |first1=C. |title=Sri Lankan president appoints 17 cabinet ministers amid calls for govt ouster |url=https://www.wionews.com/south-asia/sri-lankan-president-appoints-17-cabinet-ministers-amid-calls-for-govt-ouster-471796 |website=WION News |date=18 April 2022 |access-date=20 April 2022}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=President appoints 17 new Cabinet ministers |url=http://www.adaderana.lk/news/81891/president-appoints-new-17-member-cabinet |website=Ada Derana.lk |access-date=April 20, 2022}}</ref> Prof. Channa Jayasumana was elected as the Chair of the Caucus of Medical Parliamentarians Sri Lanka during its inaugural meeting held in Parliament of Sri Lanka on 25.04.2024 <ref>{{Cite web |title=Parliament of Sri Lanka - News - Prof. Channa Jayasumana elected as the Chair of the Caucus of Medical Parliamentarians Sri Lanka |url=https://www.parliament.lk/news-en/view/4019 |access-date=2024-07-04 |website=www.parliament.lk |language=en-gb}}</ref>


== Personal life ==
== Personal life ==
[[File:ASY 0291.jpg|thumb|347x347px| ''Channa & Ruwi'']]
[[File:ASY 0291.jpg|thumb|347x347px| ''Channa & Ruwi'']]
Channa is a Buddhist. In 2014 He married '''Ruwi Jayasumana''' sales executive of a leading private sector business firm, later turned in to an entrepreneur. They have a son and two daughters.
Channa is a Buddhist. In 2014, he married '''Ruwi Jayasumana,''' sales executive of a leading private sector business firm, later turned into an entrepreneur. They have a son and two daughters.


Channa's brother is an engineer. His twin sisters graduated in accountancy at University of Sri Jayawardanapura and are working in the state sector.
Channa's brother is an engineer. His twin sisters graduated in accountancy at the University of Sri Jayawardanapura and are working in the state sector.


==References==
==References==
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Hon.
Prof.
Channa Jayasumana
චන්න ජයසුමන
சன்ன ஜயசுமன
Minister of Health
In office
18 April 2022 – 9 May 2022
PresidentGotabaya Rajapaksa
Prime MinisterMahinda Rajapaksa
Preceded byKeheliya Rambukwella
State Minister of Production, Supply and Regulation of Pharmaceuticals
In office
12 August 2020 – 3 April 2022
PresidentGotabaya Rajapaksa
Prime MinisterMahinda Rajapaksa
Member of Parliament
for Anuradhapura District
In office
20 August 2020 – 24 September 2024
Personal details
Born (1980-01-08) January 8, 1980 (age 44)
NationalitySri Lankan
Political partySarvajana Balaya
Other political
affiliations		Sri Lanka Podujana Peramuna
(2019 – 2024)
EducationKalutara Vidyalaya, University of Peradeniya
OccupationProfessor in Pharmacology, Medical Doctor, Researcher

Channa Jayasumana is a Sri Lankan medical academic, politician, Cabinet Minister, and member of the Parliament of Sri Lanka for the Anuradhapura District.

Education

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Channa Jayasumana was born into a middle-class Sinhalese family in the down-south, Sri Lanka. Both of his parents were government servants. He studied at the Kalutara Vidyalaya and was a famous athlete in his school days. Jayasumana entered the University of Peradeniya[1] in 2001 and earned his medical degree( MBBS) in 2007.[2] He has completed his one-year medical internship at Base Hospital, Nawalapitiya, under surgeon WG Jayawickrama and pediatrician Mohomad Nilam Jiffry.

Jayasumana obtained his Doctorate of Philosophy (PhD) for the thesis "Toxicological Aspects of Sri Lankan Agricultural Nephropathy" from the Rajarata University of Sri Lanka with foreign training at California State University, Long Beach, USA.[3] Professor Sisira Siribaddana of Rajarata University, Professor Sarath Gunatilake of California State University, and Professor Priyani Paranagama of the University of Kelaniya were his PhD supervisors. Jayasumana is a fellow of the Royal College of Physicians (FRCP) in Edinburgh, UK.

Jayasumana was a pioneering academic staff member of the Faculty of Medicine and Allied Sciences, Rajarata University of Sri Lanka. He joined the Rajarata University medical faculty as a junior lecturer in 2008 and was promoted to the post of senior lecturer in 2015. Jayasumana became a professor in pharmacology in 2016 at the age of 36. He broke the record for the youngest medical professor in Sri Lanka, which was earlier held by Professor Senaka Bibile. Bibile became a medical professor in 1958 at the age of 38.[4]

Jayasumana was the head of the Department of Pharmacology at the Rajarata University of Sri Lanka from 2015 until he entered parliament.

Research

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He has done extensive research on drinking water, occupational exposure to pesticides, and their association with chronic kidney disease, which highly prevalent in rural farming communities.[5] Together with his doctoral advisor, Sarath Gunatilake at California State University, Long Beach, Prof. Jayasumana was awarded the AAAS Award for Scientific Freedom and Responsibility offered by the American Association for the Advancement of Science in 2019 for this work, citing "challenging circumstances."[6] It is the highest achievement by a Sri Lankan scientist to date.

Jayasumana has authored 30 papers in indexed international journals. Further, he is an author of the chapter “chronic tubulointerstitial nephritis” in the Oxford Text book of Medicine. Prof. Jayasumana is included in the world's top 2% scientists identified by Stanford University in both 2021 and 2022.[7][8] The list was created by Professor John P. A. Ioannidis from Stanford University and his research team. It contains a publicly available database of 100,000 top scientists that provides standardised information on citations, h-index, co-authorship-adjusted hm-index, citations to papers in different authorship positions, and a composite indicator. Jayasumana's contribution to the field of nephrology and toxicology with his postdoctoral supervisor Professor Marc de Broe of the University of Antwerp, Belgium is highly recognised on many international platforms. Channa Jayasumana is the author of seven books. In addition to medicine, his contributions are in the fields of history and philosophy.

Politics

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Jayasumana was an active member of several student unions at the University of Peradeniya. As a student union leader, he was actively involved with Sri Lankan politics in the presidential election held on 2005. Jayasumana contested the parliamentary election held in August 2020 for the Anuradhapura electorate in North Central Province and secured 133,980,[9] a recorded number of preferential votes. Following the election victory, he entered the 16th parliament of Sri Lanka.

Jayasumana has been appointed as the state minister of Production, Supply and Regulation of Pharmaceuticals in August 2020.[10] Following the mass resignation of the Sri Lankan cabinet in the wake of the 2022 Sri Lankan protests, he was appointed as the cabinet Minister of Health by President Gotabaya Rajapaksa on 18 April 2022.[11][12] Prof. Channa Jayasumana was elected as the Chair of the Caucus of Medical Parliamentarians Sri Lanka during its inaugural meeting held in Parliament of Sri Lanka on 25.04.2024 [13]

Personal life

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Channa & Ruwi

Channa is a Buddhist. In 2014, he married Ruwi Jayasumana, sales executive of a leading private sector business firm, later turned into an entrepreneur. They have a son and two daughters.

Channa's brother is an engineer. His twin sisters graduated in accountancy at the University of Sri Jayawardanapura and are working in the state sector.

References

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  1. ^ "Channa Jayasumana MBBS, PhD, FRCP Edin". scholar.google.com. Retrieved 2022-10-26.
  2. ^ "Channa Jayasumana MBBS, PhD, FRCP Edin". scholar.google.com. Retrieved 2022-10-26.
  3. ^ "Google Scholar". scholar.google.com. Retrieved 2023-05-10.
  4. ^ "Seneka Bibile", Wikipedia, 2023-02-11, retrieved 2023-04-26
  5. ^ Jayasumana, Channa; Paranagama, Priyani; Agampodi, Suneth; Wijewardane, Chinthaka; Gunatilake, Sarath; Siribaddana, Sisira (2015-01-18). "Drinking well water and occupational exposure to Herbicides is associated with chronic kidney disease, in Padavi-Sripura, Sri Lanka". Environmental Health. 14 (1): 6. Bibcode:2015EnvHe..14....6J. doi:10.1186/1476-069X-14-6. ISSN 1476-069X. PMC 4417209. PMID 25596925.
  6. ^ "Recipients of the AAAS Award for Scientific Freedom and Responsibility". Archived from the original on 2021-08-17. Retrieved 2021-10-28.
  7. ^ Ioannidis, John P. A. (2022-10-10). "September 2022 data-update for "Updated science-wide author databases of standardized citation indicators"". 4. Elsevier BV. doi:10.17632/btchxktzyw.4. {{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires |journal= (help)
  8. ^ "Two Professors from the Rajarata University of Sri Lanka are among the world's top 2% of scientists for the 2nd consecutive time - Rajarata University of Sri Lanka". 2022-10-20. Retrieved 2022-10-26.
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