Journal of Tropical Diseases & Public Health

Department of Town and Country Planning, University of Moratuwa, Katubedda, Sri Lanka

Biography

Rangajeewa Ratnayake is the Head of the Department of Town and Country Planning Department at the University of Moratuwa. He is a Chartered?Town Planner and made a fellow in the Institute of Town Planners in 2018. Rangajeewa received his Ph.D. from La Trobe University. His research involves the?sense of safety in urban settings, planning education, and urban informality. He has served on numerous editorial boards, is the co-editor of Bhumi: Planning Journal and has served as a consultant to various public organizations.

Publications

• Review Article   
  Public Health Planning and Citizen Engagement: Exploring the Need and the Sustainability of an Open Source Platform for Dengue Prevention in Sri Lanka
  Author(s): N Wickramaarachchi*, PKS Mahanama, R Ratnayake and NS Bandara
  
  The rise of Information Communication Technology (ICT) has offered the world a new and efficient mechanism to increase active citizen engagement. Growth in open source technology has widened the space for engaging a vast number of citizens limitless of geographical and hierarchical boundaries via crowdsourcing real-time data. Even though there is a boom in using ICTs in connecting and sharing knowledge and information among different stakeholders, still, there is a considerable gap in using open source technology in combating public health issues around the world. As a country with a high internet usage rate, Sri Lanka still shows underutilization of such technologies in monitoring and preventing non-communicable diseases. Dengue is a serious health threat in Sri Lanka which shows the need for active surveillance in prevention. The main objective of the paper is to seek the potential .. View more»
  

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