Items where Author is "Ratnayake, Ruwan"

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A plan for community event-based surveillance to reduce Ebola transmission - Sierra Leone, 2014-2015. (2015) Crowe, Sam; Hertz, Darren; Maenner, Matt; Ratnayake, Ruwan; Baker, Pieter; Lash, R Ryan; Klena, John; Lee-Kwan, Seung Hee; Williams, Candice; Jonnie, Gabriel T; Gorina, Yelena; Anderson, Alicia; Saffa, Gbessay; Carr, Dana; Tuma, Jude; Miller, Laura; Turay, Alhajie; Belay, Ermias; Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)

COVID-19 control in low-income settings and displaced populations: what can realistically be done? (2020) Dahab, Maysoon; van Zandvoort, Kevin; Flasche, Stefan; Warsame, Abdihamid; Ratnayake, Ruwan; Favas, Caroline; Spiegel, Paul B; Waldman, Ronald J; Checchi, Francesco

Heavy-tailed sexual contact networks and monkeypox epidemiology in the global outbreak, 2022. (2022) Endo, Akira; Murayama, Hiroaki; Abbott, Sam; Ratnayake, Ruwan; Pearson, Carl AB; Edmunds, W John; Fearon, Elizabeth; Funk, Sebastian

The ethical contours of research in crisis settings: five practical considerations for academic institutional review boards and researchers. (2019) Falb, Kathryn; Laird, Betsy; Ratnayake, Ruwan; Rodrigues, Katherine; Annan, Jeannie

Country differences in transmissibility, age distribution and case-fatality of SARS-CoV-2: a global ecological analysis. (2021) Favas, Caroline; Jarrett, Prudence; Ratnayake, Ruwan; Watson, Oliver J; Checchi, Francesco

Simple ideas to mitigate the impacts of the COVID-19 epidemic on refugees with chronic diseases. (2020) Fawad, Muhammad; Rawashdeh, Fatima; Parmar, Parveen K; Ratnayake, Ruwan

Considerations for planning COVID-19 treatment services in humanitarian responses. (2020) Garry, Sylvia; Abdelmagid, Nada; Baxter, Louisa; Roberts, Natalie; le Polain de Waroux, Olivier; Ismail, Sharif; Ratnayake, Ruwan; Favas, Caroline; Lewis, Elizabeth; Checchi, Francesco

Ciprofloxacin-resistant Shigella sonnei among men who have sex with men, Canada, 2010. (2011) Gaudreau, Christiane; Ratnayake, Ruwan; Pilon, Pierre A; Gagnon, Simon; Roger, Michel; Lévesque, Simon

Consequences of ongoing civil conflict in Somalia: evidence for public health responses. (2009) Guha-Sapir, Debarati; Ratnayake, Ruwan

Sustaining community event-based surveillance in Sierra Leone. (2017) Higgins, Eilidh M; Polich, Erin; Sahu, Maitreyi; Mearns, Stacey; Ratnayake, Ruwan

Effects of a community scorecard on improving the local health system in Eastern Democratic Republic of Congo: qualitative evidence using the most significant change technique. (2015) Ho, Lara S; Labrecque, Guillaume; Batonon, Isatou; Salsi, Viviana; Ratnayake, Ruwan

A mixed-methods investigation to understand and improve the scaled-up infection prevention and control in primary care health facilities during the Ebola virus disease epidemic in Sierra Leone. (2021) Ho, Lara Shiu-Yi; Ratnayake, Ruwan; Ansumana, Rashid; Brown, Hannah

The burden of diabetes and use of diabetes care in humanitarian crises in low-income and middle-income countries. (2019) Kehlenbrink, Sylvia; Smith, James; Ansbro, Éimhín; Fuhr, Daniela C; Cheung, Anson; Ratnayake, Ruwan; Boulle, Philippa; Jobanputra, Kiran; Perel, Pablo; Roberts, Bayard

Event-based surveillance at health facility and community level in low-income and middle-income countries: a systematic review. (2019) Kuehne, Anna; Keating, Patrick; Polonsky, Jonathan; Haskew, Christopher; Schenkel, Karl; Le Polain de Waroux, Olivier; Ratnayake, Ruwan

"We and the nurses are now working with one voice": How community leaders and health committee members describe their role in Sierra Leone's Ebola response. (2017) McMahon, Shannon A; Ho, Lara S; Scott, Kerry; Brown, Hannah; Miller, Laura; Ratnayake, Ruwan; Ansumana, Rashid

Implementation of targeted cholera response activities, Cameroon. (2023) Ouamba, Jean Patrick; Mbarga, Nicole Fouda; Ciglenecki, Iza; Ratnayake, Ruwan; Tchiasso, Dora; Finger, Flavio; Peyraud, Nicolas; Mounchili, Iscander; Boyom, Thierry; Yonta, Cyrille; Nwatchok, Liliane; Mouhamadou, Moustapha; Ekedi, Christine; Marcel, Johne; Luquero, Francisco; Ekah, Faustin; Amani, Adidja; Tamakloe, Modeste; Boum, Yap; Esso, Linda

Integrating community health volunteers into non-communicable disease management among Syrian refugees in Jordan: a causal loop analysis. (2021) Parmar, Parveen K; Rawashdah, Fatma; Al-Ali, Nahla; Abu Al Rub, Raeda; Fawad, Muhammad; Al Amire, Khaldoun; Al-Maaitah, Rowaida; Ratnayake, Ruwan

Outbreak analytics: a developing data science for informing the response to emerging pathogens. (2019) Polonsky, Jonathan A; Baidjoe, Amrish; Kamvar, Zhian N; Cori, Anne; Durski, Kara; Edmunds, W John; Eggo, Rosalind M; Funk, Sebastian; Kaiser, Laurent; Keating, Patrick; de Waroux, Olivier le Polain; Marks, Michael; Moraga, Paula; Morgan, Oliver; Nouvellet, Pierre; Ratnayake, Ruwan; Roberts, Chrissy H; Whitworth, Jimmy; Jombart, Thibaut

Building capacity to address emerging problems in developing countries: intentional self-poisoning and pesticides. (2008) Ratnayake, Ruwan

What we do know (and could know) about estimating population sizes of internally displaced people. (2022) Ratnayake, Ruwan; Abdelmagid, Nada; Dooley, Claire

Inference is bliss: Simulation for power estimation for an observational study of a cholera outbreak intervention. (2022) Ratnayake, Ruwan; Checchi, Francesco; Jarvis, Christopher I; Edmunds, W John; Finger, Flavio

Assessment of Community Event-Based Surveillance for Ebola Virus Disease, Sierra Leone, 2015. (2016) Ratnayake, Ruwan; Crowe, Samuel J; Jasperse, Joseph; Privette, Grayson; Stone, Erin; Miller, Laura; Hertz, Darren; Fu, Clementine; Maenner, Matthew J; Jambai, Amara; Morgan, Oliver

Coming together to document mortality in conflict situations: proceedings of a symposium. (2009) Ratnayake, Ruwan; Degomme, Olivier; Guha-Sapir, Debarati

Conflict and Health: seven years of advancing science in humanitarian crises. (2014) Ratnayake, Ruwan; Degomme, Olivier; Roberts, Bayard; Spiegel, Paul

Highly targeted spatiotemporal interventions against cholera epidemics, 2000-19: a scoping review. (2020) Ratnayake, Ruwan; Finger, Flavio; Azman, Andrew S; Lantagne, Daniele; Funk, Sebastian; Edmunds, W John; Checchi, Francesco

Early detection of cholera epidemics to support control in fragile states: estimation of delays and potential epidemic sizes. (2020) Ratnayake, Ruwan; Finger, Flavio; Edmunds, W John; Checchi, Francesco

Improving Ebola infection prevention and control in primary healthcare facilities in Sierra Leone: a single-group pretest post-test, mixed-methods study. (2016) Ratnayake, Ruwan; Ho, Lara S; Ansumana, Rashid; Brown, Hannah; Borchert, Matthias; Miller, Laura; Kratz, Thomas; McMahon, Shannon A; Sahr, Foday

Integrated community case management: quality of care and adherence to medication in Beneshangul-Gumuz Region, Ethiopia. (2014) Ratnayake, Ruwan; Najjemba, R; Kiapi, L; Demissie, SD; Gossaye, T; Engida, M; Degefie, T; Legesse, H; Lemma, AF; Getachew, H; Gebrie, M

Effectiveness of case-area targeted interventions including vaccination on the control of epidemic cholera: protocol for a prospective observational study. (2022) Ratnayake, Ruwan; Peyraud, Nicolas; Ciglenecki, Iza; Gignoux, Etienne; Lightowler, Maria; Azman, Andrew S; Gakima, Primitive; Ouamba, Jean Patrick; Sagara, Joseph Amadomon; Ndombe, Rollin; Mimbu, Nana; Ascorra, Alexandra; Epicentre and MSF CATI Working Group; Welo, Placide Okitayemba; Mukamba Musenga, Elisabeth; Miwanda, Berthe; Boum, Yap; Checchi, Francesco; Edmunds, W John; Luquero, Francisco; Porten, Klaudia; Finger, Flavio

The Effects of an Integrated Community Case Management Strategy on the Appropriate Treatment of Children and Child Mortality in Kono District, Sierra Leone: A Program Evaluation. (2017) Ratnayake, Ruwan; Ratto, Jeffrey; Hardy, Colleen; Blanton, Curtis; Miller, Laura; Choi, Mary; Kpaleyea, John; Momoh, Pheabean; Barbera, Yolanda

Access to Care and Prevalence of Hypertension and Diabetes Among Syrian Refugees in Northern Jordan. (2020) Ratnayake, Ruwan; Rawashdeh, Fatma; AbuAlRub, Raeda; Al-Ali, Nahla; Fawad, Muhammad; Bani Hani, Mohammad; Goyal, Ravi; Greenough, P Gregg; Al-Amire, Khaldoun; AlMaaitah, Rowaida; Parmar, Parveen

Adaptation of a community health volunteer strategy for the management of hypertension and diabetes and detection of COVID-19 disease: a progamme for Syrian refugees in northern Jordan. (2021) Ratnayake, Ruwan; Rawashdeh, Fatma; Hani, Mohammad Bani; Zoubi, Saleem; Fawad, Muhammad; Abualrub, Raeda; Al-Ali, Nahla; Goyal, Ravi; Al-Amire, Khaldoun; AlMaaitah, Rowaida; Parmar, Parveen

People-centred surveillance: a narrative review of community-based surveillance among crisis-affected populations. (2020) Ratnayake, Ruwan; Tammaro, Meghan; Tiffany, Amanda; Kongelf, Anine; Polonsky, Jonathan A; McClelland, Amanda

Early Experiences in the Integration of Non-communicable Diseases into Emergency Primary Health Care, Beni Region, Democratic Republic of the Congo. (2021) Ratnayake, Ruwan; Wittcoff, Alison; Majaribu, John; Nzweve, Jean-Pierre; Katembo, Lambert; Kasonia, Kambale; Nzanzu, Adelard Kalima; Kiapi, Lilian; Ngoy, Pascal

Estimating the infection and case fatality ratio for coronavirus disease (COVID-19) using age-adjusted data from the outbreak on the Diamond Princess cruise ship, February 2020. (2020) Russell, Timothy W; Hellewell, Joel; Jarvis, Christopher I; van Zandvoort, Kevin; Abbott, Sam; Ratnayake, Ruwan; CMMID COVID-19 working group; Flasche, Stefan; Eggo, Rosalind M; Edmunds, W John; Kucharski, Adam J

Understanding the menstrual hygiene management challenges facing displaced girls and women: findings from qualitative assessments in Myanmar and Lebanon. (2017) Schmitt, Margaret L; Clatworthy, David; Ratnayake, Ruwan; Klaesener-Metzner, Nicole; Roesch, Elizabeth; Wheeler, Erin; Sommer, Marni

What is the scope for addressing menstrual hygiene management in complex humanitarian emergencies? A global review. (2016) Sommer, Marni; Schmitt, Margaret L; Clatworthy, David; Bramucci, Gina; Wheeler, Erin; Ratnayake, Ruwan

Pilot testing and evaluation of a toolkit for menstrual hygiene management in emergencies in three refugee camps in Northwest Tanzania. (2018) Sommer, Marni; Schmitt, Margaret L; Ogello, Tom; Mathenge, Penninah; Mark, Magdalena; Clatworthy, David; Khandakji, Samanatha; Ratnayake, Ruwan

Responding to epidemics in large-scale humanitarian crises: a case study of the cholera response in Yemen, 2016-2018. (2019) Spiegel, Paul; Ratnayake, Ruwan; Hellman, Nora; Ververs, Mija; Ngwa, Moise; Wise, Paul H; Lantagne, Daniele

Community Event-Based Surveillance for Ebola Virus Disease in Sierra Leone: Implementation of a National-Level System During a Crisis. (2016) Stone, Erin; Miller, Laura; Jasperse, Joseph; Privette, Grayson; Diez Beltran, Juan Cruz; Jambai, Amara; Kpaleyea, John; Makavore, Alfred; Kamara, Mohamed Foday; Ratnayake, Ruwan

How can the sustainable development goals improve the lives of people affected by conflict? (2017) d'Harcourt, Emmanuel; Ratnayake, Ruwan; Kim, Anna

Response strategies for COVID-19 epidemics in African settings: a mathematical modelling study. (2020) van Zandvoort, Kevin; Jarvis, Christopher I; Pearson, Carl AB; Davies, Nicholas G; CMMID COVID-19 working group; Ratnayake, Ruwan; Russell, Timothy W; Kucharski, Adam J; Jit, Mark; Flasche, Stefan; Eggo, Rosalind M; Checchi, Francesco