Student Resources

Useful links

Ministry of Health and affiliated institutions

• Antimalaria Campaign http://www.malariacampaign.gov.lk/index.php/en/
• Epidemiology Unit https://www.epid.gov.lk/web/
• Family Health Bureau http://fhb.health.gov.lk/index.php/en/
• Health Promotion Bureau https://www.hpb.health.gov.lk/en
• Ministry of Health and Indigenous Medical Services http://www.health.gov.lk/moh_final/english/
• National Cancer Control Programme Sri Lanka https://www.nccp.health.gov.lk/
• National Dengue Control Unit http://www.dengue.health.gov.lk/   
• National Programme for Tuberculosis Control & Chest Diseases http://www.nptccd.info/
• National STD/AIDS Control Programme  https://www.aidscontrol.gov.lk/index.php?lang=en
• Northern Provincial Ministry of Health   https://np.gov.lk/health-ministry/
• Occupational Health Unit, Ministry of Health http://eohfs.health.gov.lk/occupational/index.php?lang=en

 

Professional colleges, associations, and research institutions

• College of Community Physicians of Sri Lanka  https://ccpsl.org/
• Institute for Health Policy http://www.ihp.lk/
• Institute of Policy Studies https://www.ips.lk/
• Jaffna Medical Association https://thejma.lk/
• Sri Lanka Medical Association https://slma.lk/

 

International health and medelopment agencies

• Asian Pacific Academic Consortium for Public Health http://www.apacph.org/wp/
• Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation http://www.gatesfoundation.org/
• GAVI Alliance http://www.gavi.org/
• The Global Fund http://www.theglobalfund.org/en/
• UNAIDS http://www.unaids.org/
• United Nations Children’s Fund Headquarters http://www.unicef.org/
•                           Sri Lanka Office http://www.unicef.org/srilanka/   
• United Nations Development Programme Headquarters https://www.undp.org
•                           Sri Lanka Office http://www.lk.undp.org/
• United Nations Population Fund
•                         Headquarters  https://www.unfpa.org/
•                         Sri Lanka Office http://srilanka.unfpa.org/
• World Health Organization
•                          Headquarters http://www.who.int/en/
• WHO Regional Office for South-East Asia http://www.searo.who.int/about/en/
•                         Sri Lanka Office http://www.searo.who.int/srilanka/en/ 
• World Bank http://www.worldbank.org
•                      World Bank Sri Lanka https://www.worldbank.org/en/country/srilanka

 

Academic resources

Journals 

• American Journal of Public Health https://ajph.aphapublications.org/
• Jaffna Medical Journal https://jmj.sljol.info/
• Journal of the College of Community Physicians of Sri Lanka https://jccpsl.sljol.info/
• Journal of the Ceylon College of Physician http://jccp.sljol.info/
• Journal of the Postgraduate Institute of Medicine http://jpgim.sljol.info/
• PLOS Medicine https://journals.plos.org/plosmedicine/
• Sri Lanka Journal of Child Health http://sljch.sljol.info/
• Sri Lanka Journal of Diabetes Endocrinology and Metabolism (SJDEM) http://sjdem.sljol.info/
• Sri Lanka College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologist http://sljog.sljol.info/
• Sri Lanka Journals Online https://www.sljol.info/
• Sri Lanka Journal of Psychiatry http://sljpsyc.sljol.info/
• Sri Lanka Journal of Sexual Health and HIV Medicine http://joshhm.sljol.info/
• Sri Lankan Journal of Infectious Diseases http://sljid.sljol.info/
• Sri Lankan Journal of Medical Administration http://sljma.sljol.info/
• The Lancet http://www.thelancet.com/
• The BMJ  https://www.bmj.com/
• The New England Journal of Medicine http://www.nejm.org/

Databases 

• Cochrane search engine http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/cochranelibrary/search
• PubMed https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/

• WHO Data http://www.who.int/gho/en/
• WHO Global Health Observatory https://www.who.int/data/gho/data/indicators
• WHO Library Database WHOLIS https://kohahq.searo.who.int/
• World Bank Data http://data.worldbank.org/
• World Bank E-Library http://elibrary.worldbank.org/

Other data resources

• Annual Reports of the Family Health Bureau http://fhb.health.gov.lk/index.php/en/resources/annual-report
• Department of Census and Statistics http://www.statistics.gov.lk/
• Epidemiology Unit http://www.epid.gov.lk/web/index.php?lang=en
• Family Health Bureau http://fhb.health.gov.lk/index.php/en/
• Ministry of Health, Nutrition and Indigenous Medicine
•           Annual Health Bulletin  http://www.health.gov.lk/moh_final/english/others.php?pid=110
•          List of publications http://www.health.gov.lk/moh_final/english/others.php?pid=127
•           National Health Accounts http://www.health.gov.lk/moh_final/english/others.php?pid=123
• WHO Statistics 2020  https://www.who.int/data/gho/whs-2020-visual-summary

Writing resources

• Purdue Online Writing Lab https://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/
• University of Oxford – Plagiarism https://www.ox.ac.uk/students/academic/guidance/skills/plagiarism