{"id":2414,"date":"2021-03-21T16:52:53","date_gmt":"2021-03-21T16:52:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/imcedu.com\/new\/?page_id=2414"},"modified":"2025-01-23T03:29:55","modified_gmt":"2025-01-23T03:29:55","slug":"chairman","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.nrc.gov.lk\/index.php\/chairman\/","title":{"rendered":"Chairman"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><section class=\"kc-elm kc-css-470588 kc_row\"><div class=\"kc-row-container  kc-container\"><div class=\"kc-wrap-columns\"><div class=\"kc-elm kc-css-372352 kc_col-sm-6 kc_column kc_col-sm-6\"><div class=\"kc-col-container\"><div class=\"kc-elm kc-css-987160 kc_text_block\"><\/p>\n<h2>Professor Anuji Upekshika Gamage<\/h2>\n<p>Professor Anuji Gamage is a Professor in Public Health at the Department of Paraclinical Sciences, Faculty of Medicine, General Sir John Kotalawela Defence University and a visiting lecturer at the Postgraduate Institute of Medicine, University of Colombo. Before entering academia, was a Community Medicine Specialist at the Ministry of Health. Specializing in Epidemiology, Health Economics, Healthcare financing, Health Policy, and Applied Epidemiology, she is currently working to enhance healthcare efficiency, access, and quality for vulnerable communities.Professor Gamage has significantly contributed to advocacy on prevention\/control of non-communicable diseases (NCDs) and their risk factors, the economic evaluation of health technologies, and healthcare financing strategies. She assumed duties as the Chairperson of the National Research Council, on the 26th of December 2024.<\/p>\n<p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><div class=\"kc-elm kc-css-218889 kc_col-sm-6 kc_column kc_col-sm-6\"><div class=\"kc-col-container\"><div class=\"kc-elm kc-css-826857 kc_shortcode kc_single_image\">\n\n        <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.nrc.gov.lk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Prof.-Anuji-Gamageaaq-1.jpg\" class=\"\" alt=\"\" \/>    <\/div>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/section><section class=\"kc-elm kc-css-105865 kc_row\"><div class=\"kc-row-container  kc-container\"><div class=\"kc-wrap-columns\"><div class=\"kc-elm kc-css-907360 kc_col-sm-12 kc_column kc_col-sm-12\"><div class=\"kc-col-container\"><div class=\"kc-elm kc-css-63525\" style=\"height: 20px; clear: both; width:100%;\"><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/section><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1827,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-2414","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nrc.gov.lk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2414","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nrc.gov.lk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nrc.gov.lk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nrc.gov.lk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nrc.gov.lk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2414"}],"version-history":[{"count":25,"href":"https:\/\/www.nrc.gov.lk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2414\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7435,"href":"https:\/\/www.nrc.gov.lk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2414\/revisions\/7435"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nrc.gov.lk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1827"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nrc.gov.lk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2414"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}