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| 29 Sep 2021 |
| Strengthening Developing Member Countries Capacity in Elderly Care |
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The "Country Diagnostic Study On Long-Term Care In Sri Lanka", is one of six country diagnostic studies, prepared under the ADB technical assistance 9111: Strengthening Developing Member Countries' Capacity in Elderly Care. The research, analysis and writing was conducted by the research team at the Institute for Health Policy. Other countries in the study are Indonesia, Mongolia, Tonga, Thailand, and Viet Nam. |
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 The publication presents a study on the availability and provision of long-term care (LTC) in Sri Lanka, and it discusses findings from the analysis and offers recommendations for the development of LTC systems in the country.
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| 30 Apr 2020 |
| Blaming the public is an admission of failure - in conversation with Dr Ravindra Rannan-Eliya on Sri Lanka's COVID-19 response |
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A widely shared blog post written by Executive Director & Fellow of the Institute of Health (IHP) Dr Ravindra Rannan-Eliya earlier this week called for fresh thinking in Sri Lanka's approach to containing the COVID-19 as the number of confirmed cases surged past 500. Economynext, part of the Echelon media company interviwed Dr Rannan-Eliya to further clarify what was shared on his blog . |
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| 10 Apr 2020 |
| COVID - 19 Short interview by Hiru TV |
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In a short interview with Hiru TV, Dr Rannan-Eliya shares his views on what needs to be prioratised in the current COVID crisis |
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| 29 Mar 2020 |
| COVID - 19 crisis will not be over soon: prepare for a long slog |
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Dr Ravi Rannan-Eliya, Director IHP, in his article to the Sunday Times, shares five key facts we need to know to understand the future. He further reiterates in the same article that life will not return to normal for at least the next 12 months: our political leaders need to prepare everyone for a long slog. |
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| 26 Mar 2020 |
| COVID - 19 |
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In response to the unprecedented challenge posed by the COVID-19 epidemic, IHP has launched a blog to communicate rapid analysis and comment on developing issues. Our goal is to support public understanding and preparedness. |
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| 7 Nov 2019 |
| Supoort for MOH Global Fund HSS Proposal 2019 |
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IHP is supporting the Ministry of Health draft and submit a proposal to Global Fund for Euros 20 million in funding to support health systems strengthening. |
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 The proposal targets Euros 20 million in rebt repayments that Sri Lanka is to make to a German funder, which Germany has offered to contribute in a debt swap facility to fund further health systems strengthening through the Global Fund.
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| 19 Sep 2019 |
| Senior Fellow Awarded Knight of Grace |
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Dr. Sarath M. Samarage, a Senior Fellow of the Institute for Health Policy, Sri Lanka has been Awarded the Knighthood of the Order of St. John by Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth of Britain In recognition of his devotion and enormous contributions to humanity through the St. John Ambulance Sri Lanka. The triennial Investiture Ceremony was held on Thursday 19th September 2019 in London, Presided by the Grand Prior, His Royal Highness The Duke of Gloucester. |
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| 25 Mar 2019 |
| L4UHC Asia Program Support |
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IHP is partnering and supporting GIZ to deliver the 2019/20 L4UHC Asia program which is training participants from Pakistan, Myanmar and Viet Nam in leadership skills for UHC. |
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 IHP activities include providing technical support and advice on program delivery and development of program materials.
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| 25 Mar 2019 |
| L4UHC Sri Lanka Program 2019 |
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IHP hosted L4UHC participants from Pakistan, Myanmar and Viet Nam for the first part of their 2019/20 UHC leadership training program. |
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 IHP organized and hosted the first event of the Leadership for UHC (L4UHC) Asia program 2019/20 at the Jetwing Blue hotel in Negombo, Sri Lanka, 18-21 March 2019, working with and supporting colleagues from World Bank, WHO, GIZ and P4H. As part of the week's training, IHP organized sensing journey visits for participants to experience at first hand some key elements of SRi Lanka's UHC experience. This included visits to the PGIM training program for medical administrators, a private clinic, a private hospital and a leading quality expert, a government hospital and the GMOA doctors union. Participants were uniformly surprised and impressed by what they saw, much of which was new to them.
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| 24 Mar 2019 |
| Dr. Abeykoon awarded the Gold Medal |
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Dr.A.T.P.L. Abeykoon, Senior Fellow was awarded the Gold Medal for his outstanding scholarly contribution to the field of Demography and Population Studies by the Population Association of Sri Lanka at a ceremony held recently at the University of Colombo. |
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