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List of works by Ruwan Ratnayake

"We and the nurses are now working with one voice": How community leaders and health committee members describe their role in Sierra Leone's Ebola response

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Assessing suicidal youth with antisocial, borderline, or narcissistic personality disorder

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Assessment of Community Event-Based Surveillance for Ebola Virus Disease, Sierra Leone, 2015

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Challenges to the surveillance of meningococcal disease in an era of declining incidence in montréal, Québec.

scientific article published on 14 May 2013

Coming together to document mortality in conflict situations: proceedings of a symposium.

scientific article published on 25 February 2009

Conflict and Health: seven years of advancing science in humanitarian crises

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Consequences of ongoing civil conflict in Somalia: evidence for public health responses

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Early detection of cholera epidemics to support control in fragile states: estimation of delays and potential epidemic sizes

scientific article published on 15 December 2020

Effects of a community scorecard on improving the local health system in Eastern Democratic Republic of Congo: qualitative evidence using the most significant change technique

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Estimating the infection and case fatality ratio for COVID-19 using age-adjusted data from the outbreak on the Diamond Princess cruise ship

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Estimating the infection and case fatality ratio for coronavirus disease (COVID-19) using age-adjusted data from the outbreak on the Diamond Princess cruise ship, February 2020

scientific article published on 01 March 2020

Event-based surveillance at health facility and community level in low-income and middle-income countries: a systematic review

scientific article published on 10 December 2019

Examining student perspectives on suicidal behaviour and its prevention in Sri Lanka

scientific article published on 01 September 2009

Heavy-tailed sexual contact networks and monkeypox epidemiology in the global outbreak, 2022

scientific article published on 7 October 2022

How can the sustainable development goals improve the lives of people affected by conflict?

scientific article published in February 2017

Improving Ebola infection prevention and control in primary healthcare facilities in Sierra Leone: a single-group pretest post-test, mixed-methods study

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Integrating community health volunteers into non-communicable disease management among Syrian refugees in Jordan: a causal loop analysis

scientific article published in 2021

Outbreak analytics: a developing data science for informing the response to emerging pathogens.

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Protecting public health in Yemen

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Rebuilding people-centred maternal health services in post-Ebola Liberia through participatory action research

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Rehabilitation challenges for Aboriginal clients recovering from brain injury: a qualitative study engaging health care practitioners.

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Responding to epidemics in large-scale humanitarian crises: a case study of the cholera response in Yemen, 2016-2018

scientific article published on 15 July 2019

Shifting dominance of Shigella species in men who have sex with men

scientific article published on 23 April 2012

Simple ideas to mitigate the impacts of the COVID-19 epidemic on refugees with chronic diseases

scientific article published on 06 May 2020

The Effects of an Integrated Community Case Management Strategy on the Appropriate Treatment of Children and Child Mortality in Kono District, Sierra Leone: A Program Evaluation

scientific article published on 12 June 2017

The burden of diabetes and use of diabetes care in humanitarian crises in low-income and middle-income countries

scientific article published on 14 March 2019

Training in epidemiology and disease control for humanitarian emergencies

scientific article published on November 15, 2010

Understanding the menstrual hygiene management challenges facing displaced girls and women: findings from qualitative assessments in Myanmar and Lebanon

scientific article published on 16 October 2017

What we do know (and could know) about estimating population sizes of internally displaced people

scientific article published in 2022