Our Team
Meet our team
Pamod Amarakoon is a Director of HISP Sri Lanka. He started his career as a medical doctor and proceeded to obtain two Masters level qualifications in the domains of Biomedical Informatics and Health Administration. Specialising further in the domain of Health Informatics, he obtained the doctorate (Doctor of Medicine degree) in Health Informatics in the year 2020. He also serves in the capacity of a Lecturer in Health Informatics at Postgraduate Institute of Medicine, University of Colombo, Sri Lanka and has obtained Postgraduate Certificate in Medical Education. His research interests include public health informatics and mHealth. He has been instrumental in leading DHIS2 implementations in last 8 years in Sri Lanka and is the tech lead of the flagship project in nutrition in Sri Lanka, District Nutrition Monitoring System which has received many awards at local, regional and global level including the prestigious World Summit Award. He is an experienced implementer and a trainer in DHIS2 at global level. He has involved in implementing DHIS2 based implementations in several countries in the Asia region including Sri Lanka, Timor-Leste and Pakistan. He has also been involved in performing information system country assessment in Libya in 2018. He has been serving in the capacity of DHIS2 consultant in Timor-Leste from year 2017 to date supporting the National malaria programme of the Ministry of health. He played a pioneering role in establishing COVID-19 surveillance system in Sri Lanka based on DHIS2 platform, the meta data and experience of which was shared with the global DHIS2 community which laid the foundation of producing DHIS2 metadata toolkit for COVID-19 which is currently being used in more than 50 countries across the globe. In addition, he also serves as a council member and Assistant Treasurer of Sri Lanka Medical Association and the Perinatal Society of Sri Lanka. He is an Executive Vice President in Health Informatics Society of Sri Lanka supporting digital health strengthening efforts in Sri Lanka.
Roshan Hewapthirana obtained his basic degree in Medicine and proceeded to obtain his masters degree in IT. He has been supporting implementation of health information systems in Sri Lanka for more than 12 years. He completed his PhD at University of Oslo and proceeded to become a senior lecturer at University of Colombo. He has been playing a pioneering role in establishing DHIS2 in Sri Lanka and also currently serves as a director in HISP Sri Lanka. He has been involved in country assessment of Information Systems in Sri Lanka and Myanmar supported by the Asian Development Bank. He also served as a member in the University of Oslo team supporting the implementation of DHIS2 in Pakistan from year 2017. It was also a key contributor and and an implementor of District Nutrition Monitoring System from its inception to the date.
