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Hon.
(Prof.)
Channa Jayasumana
MP
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
Incumbent
Assumed office
20 August 2020
Personal details
Born (1980-01-08) January 8, 1980 (age 44)
NationalitySri Lankan
Political partySri Lanka Podujana Peramuna
Other political
affiliations		Sri Lanka People's Freedom Alliance
EducationKalutara Vidyalaya

Channa Jayasumana is a Sri Lankan medical academic, politician, Cabinet Minister and is a member of the Parliament of Sri Lanka for the Anuradhapura District. He belongs to the Sri Lanka Podujana Peramuna.[1] He studied at the Kalutara Vidyalaya. Channa was a famous athlete in his school days. He holds professional qualifications MBBS from University of Peradeniya, PhD[2] and FRCP Edin.[3] He is a pioneering academic staff member of the Faculty of Medicine and Allied Sciences, Rajarata University of Sri Lanka. Channa joined Rajarata University as a junior lecturer on 2008. He was the professor in pharmacology at the Rajarata University of Sri Lanka before entered in to politics.

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.[4] Together with his doctoral advisor, Sarath Gunatilake, 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."[5] He has authored 30 papers in indexed International journals. Channa 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.[6] [7]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.

Channa secured 133,980[8], a recorded number of preferential votes in the Parliamentary election held on August 2020 from the Anuradhapura electoral district and entered in to the 16th parliament of Sri Lanka.

He was appointed state minister of Pharmaceutical Production, Supply and Regulation in 2020.[9]

Following the mass resignation of the Sri Lankan cabinet in the wake of the 2022 Sri Lankan protests, he was appointed as the Minister of Health by President Gotabaya Rajapaksa on 18 April 2022.[10][11]

Personal Life

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's brother is an Engineer. His twin sisters graduated in accountancy and working in the state sector.

References

  1. ^ "Channa Jayasumana". Archived from the original on 2020-10-27. Retrieved 2021-10-28.
  2. ^ "Channa Jayasumana MBBS, PhD, FRCP Edin". scholar.google.com. Retrieved 2022-10-26.
  3. ^ "Channa Jayasumana MBBS, PhD, FRCP Edin". scholar.google.com. Retrieved 2022-10-26.
  4. ^ 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. doi:10.1186/1476-069X-14-6. ISSN 1476-069X. PMC 4417209. PMID 25596925.{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: unflagged free DOI (link)
  5. ^ "Recipients of the AAAS Award for Scientific Freedom and Responsibility". Archived from the original on 2021-08-17. Retrieved 2021-10-28.
  6. ^ Ioannidis, John P. A. (2022-10-10). "September 2022 data-update for "Updated science-wide author databases of standardized citation indicators"". 4. doi:10.17632/btchxktzyw.4. {{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires |journal= (help)
  7. ^ "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.
  8. ^ "2020 GE: Anuradhapura District preferential votes". www.adaderana.lk. Retrieved 2022-10-26.
  9. ^ "Sri Lanka President appoints cabinet ministers, state ministers". EconomyNext. 2020-08-12. Retrieved 2020-08-13.[dead link‍]
  10. ^ Krishnasai, C. "Sri Lankan president appoints 17 cabinet ministers amid calls for govt ouster". WION News. Retrieved 20 April 2022.
  11. ^ "President appoints 17 new Cabinet ministers". Ada Derana.lk. Retrieved April 20, 2022.


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