University of Kelaniya

Delivery of cardiac rehabilitation through hybrid models and alternative settings by country income classification and decade: Comparisons from the International Council of Cardiovascular Prevention and Rehabilitation’s 2025 Global Audit Update

Objective Cardiac rehabilitation (CR) is an outpatient model of secondary prevention that improves patient outcomes, yet use remains limited. Hybrid/alternative CR addresses these challenges, but global availability, structure, and volumes have not been characterized since the pa...

Spatio-Temporal Statistical Assessment of Water Quality Dynamics in the Kelani River, Sri Lanka: A Data-Driven Framework for Sustainable River Basin Management

The Kelani River is one of the most important freshwater resources in Sri Lanka, supplying drinking water, supporting aquatic ecosystems, and sustaining industrial and agricultural activities. However, increasing anthropogenic pressures have intensified the need for comprehensive...

Scaling up the global Green Bond market: Integrating global policy frameworks with stakeholder perceptions from Australia and the United Kingdom

The Green Bond (GB) market has not been as effective as anticipated in tackling the global climate change crisis. There is a substantive investment gap worldwide in meeting the financing needs of green projects. Thus, this study reviewed key publications of international market p...

The Impact of Macroeconomic Uncertainty on Monetary Policy Transmission in Sri Lanka: Evidence from a Threshold Vector Autoregression (TVAR) Model

This study examines the impact of macroeconomic uncertainty on the effectiveness of monetary policy transmission in Sri Lanka using monthly data from 2001–2025. Over the past two decades Sri Lanka has experienced several episodes of high uncertainty, including the global financia...

Exploring Revenue-Sharing Strategies as a Pathway to Inclusive Growth and Sustainability in Sri Lanka’s Tea Value Chain

Purpose The tea industry, a cornerstone of agricultural economies across Asia and Africa, faces persistent challenges related to unequal value distribution, rising production costs, labour shortages, and climate uncertainty. This study systematically examines revenue-sharing (RS)...

A robust kinetic theory-based model for dengue transmission integrating climatic and socio-economic dynamics

Dengue is one of the most critical mosquito-borne viral diseases that has rapidly spread in recent years. Despite the fact that the first dengue vaccine was licensed in 2015, the vaccine is still in the experimental stage. As a result, the primary prevention strategies are vector...

Women’s perceptions: positive childbirth experiences, mistreatment and obstetric violence in a tertiary-care hospital in Sri Lanka

Sri Lanka has the best obstetric outcome indices among South Asian countries, but progressive medicalization of childbirth has raised concerns about patient-centered care. Positive birth experience is an important indicator of the quality of maternity care. This study is the firs...

Beyond red meat: fish roe-associated reactions in patients with alpha-gal syndrome—a case series from Sri Lanka

Abstract Background Alpha-gal syndrome (AGS) is an IgE-mediated allergy to galactose-α-1,3-galactose (α-Gal), classically presenting with delayed allergic reactions after ingestion of mammalian-derived foods. Fish roe has recently emerged as a potential but under-recognized trigg...

Adaptation and validation of a modified version of the patient health questionnaire (PHQ-9) for a Tamil speaking population in Sri Lanka: a cross-sectional study

The patient health questionnaire (PHQ-9) is a widely used self-administered depression screening tool. Multiple Tamil translations of the PHQ-9 have been developed for different Tamil-speaking populations. This study evaluated the existing Tamil translations for their accuracy, a...

Reliability of ChatGPT in scoring medical undergraduates’ portfolio in professionalism

Artificial Intelligence tools have assumed an important role in medical education including assessment. Evidence supports its capabilities in automated grading/scoring processes in different types of written assessments. To estimate the level of agreement between scores given by...

Leprosy control in Sri Lanka after eliminating the disease as a public health problem: implications for elimination of transmission of infectious diseases

Leprosy was eliminated as a public health problem in Sri Lanka in 1995. In 2001, leprosy control activities in Sri Lanka were integrated into the general health services which transferred the duties performed by the dedicated staff of the Anti-Leprosy Campaign to Dermatologists a...

Curcumin-Based Nanocarriers for Alzheimer’s Disease: A Promising Therapeutic Avenue

Globally, over 55 million people are affected by Alzheimer’s disease (AD), a number that is increasing rapidly and projected to triple by 2050. AD is a type of neurodegenerative disorder for which there is no curative treatment. The accumulation of amyloid-β (Aβ) plaques and the...