Personal Particulars
Full Name: Dr. Nadarajah Sivarajah
Present address: 47/3, Adiyapatham Road
Thirunelvely
North
Jaffna,
Sri Lanka
Tel:
021 222 8759
Mobile:
0777 562 715
Present
post: Visiting Lecturer
Faculty
of Medicine
University of Jaffna
Date of birth: 12.04.1938. Age: 80 years
Marital
status: Married
with no dependent children
Place
of birth: Negombo
– Sri Lanka.
Secondary
education:
St.
Mary’s College, Negombo (1948 to
1954)
Ananda
College, Colombo (1955
to 1958)
QUALIFICATION
HIGHLIGHTS
Professional
qualifications:
|
Qualification
|
Year
|
University
|
|
MBBS
|
1965
|
University of Ceylon
|
|
DTPH
|
1976
|
London School of Hygiene and Tropical
Medicine, University of London
|
|
MD (Community Medicine)
|
1985
|
University of Colombo
|
|
Board Certified Consultant in Community
Medicine
|
1985
|
Post-Graduate Institute of Medicine,
Colombo Community
Medicine
|
|
FCCPSL
|
2014
|
College of the Community Physicians
of Sri Lanka
|
WORK
HISTORY
1965 to
1969 Worked in the Ministry of Health, Sri Lanka as a District Medical Officer
at District Hospital, Ampara and Mawathagama. Most of the work involved
clinical patient management and Hospital management with over 30 staff members
1970 to
1981. Worked as a Medical Officer of
Health in Kegalle, Vavuniya, Manipay, Anuradhapura, Kayts and as Port Health
Officer in Colombo
1981 to
2003 Worked as lecturer, Senior Lecturer and as Head of the Department of
Community Medicine at University of Jaffna
2003 to 2013
as Consultant Coordinator, Word Health Organization, Jaffna Field Office
Current
Positions Held
·
Chairman,
Board of Management, CANE Hospice, Chunnakam 2008 to date
·
Secretary
& Director (Academic), Institute of Medical Sciences, Manipay 2012 to date
·
Member
Advisory board, Green Memorial Hospital, Manipay – 2015 to date
·
Member,
Board of Trustees, AHEAD Trust, Jaffna 2012 to date
·
President,
Association for Rehabilitation of the Disabled, Jaffna – 1992 to date
·
Visiting
Lecturer, Faculty of Medicine, University of Jaffna – 2003 to date
·
Member Board
of the Faculty of Graduate studies, University of Jaffna
Other
posts held
·
President
Jaffna District Action Committee of the Family Planning Association of Sri
Lanka, 1980 -1981
·
Vice
President, Jaffna Medical Association, 1982 -
1985
·
President,
Jaffna Medical Association, 1986/87
·
District
Superintendent, St. Johns Ambulance Association of
Sri Lanka
·
Founder
member & President, Association for Health &
Counseling, Jaffna, 1992/93
·
Founder
Member &President, Association for Rehabilitation for
Disabled, Jaffna, 1992 to date
·
Founder
member and Asst. Secretary, & President, Jaffna
Science Association Jaffna 1992/93
·
Member, WHO Environmental Epidemiology Network, WHO Geneva.
·
Chairman
Section C of the Jaffna Science Association, Jaffna 1995/96/97/98
·
Editor
Jaffna Medical Journal, 1988 to 2003
·
Editor “Suhamanchari”
A journal for paramedical workers, funded by UNICEF.1993 to 2003
·
Lecturer in Community Health at Nurses
Training schools
1977 - at
NTS Anuradhapura [Sinhala medium]
1981 - at
NTS Jaffna [Tamil medium]
1982 - - do -
1987 - - do -
1998 - - do –
·
President
Jaffna Science Association (JSA), 2001/02
·
President
Association for Health Education & Development (AHEAD), 2002
·
President, Association for
Rehabilitation of the Disabled
·
Chairman,
Board of Management CANE Hospice 2006 to date
·
Trustee,
AHEAD Trust
·
Trustee
and Academic Director, Institute of Medical Sciences 2013 to date
Organizer (Activity Manager) and
Resource person for the following WHO sponsored workshops:
·
Workshop on Curriculum Development for teachers in Siddha Medicine held at the
Faculty of Medicine, Jaffna. July 4 - 8, 1988.
·
Workshop on Health problems among school children for In-service Advisors and
Hygiene teachers (of the Ministry of Education) held at the Faculty of
Medicine, Jaffna. February 5 - 9, 1990.
·
Workshop on Teaching and Assessment for teachers in the University of Jaffna
held at the Faculty of Medicine, Jaffna. June 9 - 13, 1997.
Consultancies and Research projects
undertaken
|
Nature of work
|
Organization
|
|
An evaluation of the Rural Sanitation Programme of the German Agency
for technical Cooperation (GTZ) in Vavuniya and Mullaitivu districts of Sri
Lanka, 1985.
|
GTZ
|
|
A study
of Women and Children in the Urban
Underprivileged sector of the Jaffna Municipality 1986. Published book
31pp.
|
UNICEF
|
|
Carried out survey of Nutritional status of children under
36 months in Jaffna District (Jaffna District Nutrition Survey) 1993
|
Council of NGOs, SCF (UK), Red Barna
& FORUT
|
|
Plan
for Rehabilitation of Jaffna. Published as Chapter on Health in The Dawn of a new Era published by
Resettlement & Rehabilitation
Authority for the North. 1998
|
RRAN
Ministry of Health, Sri Lanka
|
|
A
survey of School-aged children in the Jaffna District. Mimeograph document
prepared. 1998.
|
SCF (UK) & UNICEF
|
|
Psychological
needs of children in Jaffna Peninsula. Mimeograph document prepared for the
Association for Health & Counseling 1998. 35pp
|
CIDA
|
|
Cancer
Care in Jaffna. Mimeograph document prepared for CANE Sri Lanka. 1999. 20 pp
|
CANE Sri Lanka
|
|
Preparation of Northeast Emergency
Rehabilitation Project, 2001
|
ADB
|
|
Evaluation of Oxfam & SCUK, Sri
Lanka, 2001.
|
DFID, British High Commission,
Bangkok
.
|
|
Evaluation of UNFPA Project:
Improvement in access & quality of Reproductive Health Services to
Populations affected by conflict, 2001
Sectoral report on the settlement,
reconstruction & development programme (Jaffna Plan – 2002)
Prepared Report on Sri Lankan Tamil
refugees living in Tamil Nadu, India: a participatory Nutrition, health and
Socio-economic survey for Dan Church Aid (DCA) funded by Europian Commission
Humaniatarian office- ECHO.(2003)
Prepared Manual for Trainers in
School-Based health and psycholosocial programme for children (in grade 6-8)
for Sri Lanka Red Cross society and Danish Red Cross society (2004)
Assessment of Reproductive Health
Needs in Jaffna District (survey report) submitted to Population Services
Lanka, Colombo (2010)
Carried out evaluation of HSDP
Project of World Bank, for Research and Intelligence unit as Health
Consultant (2011)
Prepared Report on Psychosocial
service providers in the Northern Province for UNICEF (Colombo)
Evaluation of Kavery Kalamantram’s
activities of the Leprosy Mission , England and Wales, 2013
|
UNFPA
Kachcheri Jaffna
European Commission Humanitarian
Office (ECHO)
SLRCS & Danish Red Cross
PSL
RIU
UNICEF
Leprosy
Mission, England & Wales
|
Scholarships & Fellowships
|
Granter
|
Place of Fellowship or Scholarship
|
Period
|
|
WHO
|
To Follow Post-Graduate Diploma in
Public Health
|
September 1975 to May 1976 [9 months]
|
|
WHO
|
Study tour of Port Health Services in
Cairo, Alexandria, Bombay, Calcutta, New Delhi & Madras
|
May 1976 to June 1976
[6 weeks]
|
|
WHO
|
Primary Health Care & Appropriate Technology conducted by
the Royal Thai Government, Bangkok, Thailand
|
April 7 – 17, 1981
[10 days]
|
|
WHO
|
Study of Primary Health Care
Education at, Christian Medical College, Vellore, All India Institute of
Medical Sciences at New Delhi, & St. John’s Medical College, Bangalore
|
14.03.1999 to 11.04.1999
[4 weeks]
|
|
NUFU
|
Nutrition Research Institute,
University of Oslo, Norway
|
15.09.1995 to 15 12 1995
[3 months]
|
Dr. N Sivarajah
July 13, 2018
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