Centre for Kidney Research team members

Hasantha Gunasekera

PhD Student, School of Public Health, University of Sydney
Tel: +61 2 9845 1464
Email:hasanthg@chw.edu.au

Hasantha is a general paediatrician with an interest in International Public Health and Australian Indigenous Health. He has just submitted his PhD thesis entitled "Epidemiology and management of otitis media in Indigenous and non-Indigenous children" which was supported by an NHMRC scholarship. His PhD forms part of the SEARCH (Study of Environment on Aboriginal Resilience and Child Health). SEARCH has NHMRC funding to follow-up a cohort of urban Aboriginal children for 5 years (possibly 20 years funding permitting!) and will focus on specific child health issues such as otitis media and its management. SEARCH has currently enrolled over 200 children and performed baseline measurements on over 50 children. His other research interests include the public health, general paediatrics, and refugee health.

Hasantha maintains his clinical skills with regular locum work around the country, and as a Staff Specialist General Paediatrician at The Children's Hospital at Westmead. He also helps to run the Diploma in Child Health & International Postgraduate Paediatrics Certificate, which provides postgradate paediatric education to healthcare practitioners all over Australia, the Pacific, and many parts of Asia, including China, Hong Kong, Cambodia, Vietnam and India. He has recently been appointed as a junior Sub Editor for the Journal of Paediatrics and Child Health, the national paediatric journal.

He is well on his way to achieving his goal of dining in every restaurant in Sydney before he dies.