Nare BandaranayakeSenior Women’s Health Series: Part 1: How does a woman’s socioeconomic position affect her health…For over a century, we’ve understood that the conditions in which people live and work affect their physical and mental health. However…Oct 15, 2022Oct 15, 2022
Nare BandaranayakeBreaking down the Delta VariantIt seems we hear of a news report of a newly discovered Delta COVID19 case in Sri Lanka almost on a daily basis. Resulting in the question…Aug 5, 2021Aug 5, 2021
Nare BandaranayakeLet’s meet the new vaccines on the block: Sinopharm & SputnikWith the COVID third wave in Sri Lanka arriving at the same time as the need for the AstraZeneca second jab, there has been some public…Aug 5, 2021Aug 5, 2021
Nare BandaranayakeVariants, variants, but what does it mean?When COVID19 hit Sri Lankan shores in March 2020, very few of us thought that this would be something that’d last months, let alone years…Aug 5, 2021Aug 5, 2021
Nare Bandaranayake200 million doses later: How have the vaccines fared in the real world?By now, most of us have received a link to register for Sri Lanka’s mass COVID19 vaccination rollout. Whilst some of us have jumped on…Aug 5, 2021Aug 5, 2021
Nare BandaranayakeConfused over AstraZeneca news? We break it down in one minute!AstraZeneca, long regarded as the problem child of the COVID vaccines, is plagued again by negative news. So what’s happened? What does it…Aug 5, 2021Aug 5, 2021
Nare BandaranayakeVaccine safety: Three (scientific) reasons why they are safeWith the impending mass COVID19 vaccination rollout in Sri Lanka, there are murmurs about vaccines causing allergic reactions or even…Feb 13, 2021Feb 13, 2021
Nare BandaranayakeUnderstanding Post Traumatic Stress Disorder: How to HelpWith great shock & deep sorrow, we have witnessed the unfolding of horrific events since Easter Sunday in Sri Lanka. Along with the rest…Jan 31, 2021Jan 31, 2021
Nare BandaranayakeVaccines: Busting the myths and laying out the scienceClose to a year into the pandemic, vaccines seem to be on everyone’s mind. It is nothing short of a tremendous feat that we now have not…Jan 26, 2021Jan 26, 2021