Why would you like to be on the NCDA Board of Directors?

I have a passion to design and implement innovative activities for NCD prevention and control in the global level and I believe that NCDA Board is the most suitable place for me to share my ideas and experience. Hope I can add value to the NCDA through the experience I gained as an academic, professional and activist with my previous work in local, regional, and global level especially in the field of alcohol, tobacco and other drug control and prevention. I strongly believe that there will be an opportunity to design innovative activities to prevent deaths and disabilities caused by NCD when I become a Board member of NCDA by using my work experience of community interventions, research and policy advocacy. I will be able to strengthen NCDA Board with my ability to work in different sectors such as community-based organizations, government institutions and corporate sector which will enriched NCD programmes in the future, As a good team player, I am eager to share my knowledge and experience with other directors to strengthen the NCD control mission in the global level.

What makes you a good candidate for the NCDA Board of Directors?

I am excited to contribute to the NCDA vision to control NCD’s in the global level by adding my last 30 years’ experience of working towards NCD prevention and control. As a representative of a developing country in the Asian region I believe that I can contribute to face the challenge of NCDs in the region.

I gained the knowledge and experience working with different contexts, cultures, and communities. I will be able to strengthen the existing NCDA programmes and design new interventions in the future. The results I achieved specially conceptualization, designing and implementing targeting young people will be an added advantage to the NCDA work in the coming years. I have actively engaged in community activities, research and policy advocacy in past may years in the local regional and global level. Through the achieved results in all the three areas I can contribute to improve the future interventions of NCDA.

Biography

Currently working as the consultant to alcohol and drug information centre (ADIC) Sri Lanka. Working as a visiting lecturer at University of Colombo Sri Lanka. Vice president of the largest alcohol prevention network Movendi International and a Board member of Global Alcohol Policy Alliance (GAPA). Closely engage with NCD alliance in Sri Lanka from the inception. Studied social work in India and Health promotion in Canada.

Have been actively engaged in NCD control work since 1995. especially the interventions focus on young population. Have done intensive interventions as an activist in the field and policy advocacy for alcohol and tobacco and other drug control. Have experience in working with the government institutions, corporate sector and extensively work with community-based organisations.