Faculty Member
Susitha Wanigaratne PhD, MHSc, BSc
- Email Address(es)
- susitha.wanigaratne(at)sickkids.ca
- Office Address
- Sick Kids Research Institute 686 Bay Street, 11th floor
- Division(s)/Institute(s)
- Epidemiology Division
- Position
- Adjunct Lecturer
- SGS Status
- Associate (Restricted) Member
- Currently Accepting Doctoral Students?
- No
Research Interests
- social epidemiology
- immigrant and refugee health
- community engaged research
- maternal, infant and child health
- population-based data
Dr. Susitha Wanigaratne, PhD is a Senior Research Associate at the Edwin S.H. Leong Centre for Healthy Children at the SickKids Research Institute, a Fellow at ICES and an Adjunct Lecturer at the Dalla Lana School of Public Health. As a social epidemiologist her work examines immigration as a structural and social determinant of health. She is interested in community-based participatory research methods which fuse the lived experience and perspectives of community members with the power of analytics from population-based administrative health and social data. Her aim is to contribute to and help facilitate positive social change which improves the health and well-being of immigrant and migrant communities. She holds a PhD in Epidemiology and a Masters of Health Science in Epidemiology and Community Health from the Dalla Lana School of Public Health at the University of Toronto.