====== Ashini Weerasinghe ======

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**Ashini Weerasinghe** is a Canadian epidemiologist based in [[canada:ontario:Toronto]], [[Ontario]].

===== Career and Affiliations =====

Weerasinghe lists [[Bill Gates]] as an interest on [[LinkedIn]].((//Ashini Weerasinghe.// [[https://www.campfire.wiki/lib/exe/fetch.php?media=pharmaceutical_companies:screencapture-linkedin-in-ashini-weerasinghe-688044105-2022-05-24-22_35_05.pdf|LinkedIn]]. Retrieved May 24, 2022, from https://www.linkedin.com/in/ashini-weerasinghe-688044105/))

==== Cancer Care Ontario ====

Weerasinghe previously worked writing scientific manuscripts and presentations within the Ontario Breast Screening Program at [[Cancer Care Ontario]].

==== Centre for Addiction and Mental Health ====

She has worked as a research coordinator within the Nicotine Dependence Clinic at the [[Centre for Addiction and Mental Health]], where she established, maintained and managed a database of health care practitioners providing smoking cessation counselling in Ontario.

==== Education ====

Weerasinghe holds a master’s degree in epidemiology from the [[Dalla Lana School of Public Health]] at the [[University of Toronto]].

==== Public Health Ontario ====

Weerasinghe is an epidemiologist at [[Public Health Ontario]].((Brunton, N., Russell, K., Booth, G., Hobin, E., Mcgavock, J., Klaprat, N., Swanson, A., Pancoe, D., & Manley, E. (2019). //Abstract #61 (0346_0513_000075).// Child Health Research Days Manitoba. https://web.archive.org/web/20220525054556/https://chrdmb.ca/wp-content/uploads/2018/05/2019-09-13-Final-Abstracts-61.pdf))

==== Ontario COVID-19 Science Advisory Table ====

Weerasinghe is a member of the secretariat of the [[Ontario COVID-19 Science Advisory Table]], including for the Behavioural Science Working Group.((//About Us.// (2021, August 3). Ontario COVID-19 Science Advisory Table. https://web.archive.org/web/20210803202104/https://covid19-sciencetable.ca/about/))

===== Research =====

==== Funding ====

Weerasinghe has received research funding from the [[National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism]] (NIAAA), the [[Health Canada Substance Use and Addictions Program]], the [[Canadian Institutes of Health Research]] (CIHR), [[Heart & Stroke Foundation]], and the [[Canadian Cancer Society]].((Schoueri‐Mychasiw, N., Weerasinghe, A., Stockwell, T., Vallance, K., Hammond, D., Greenfield, T. K., McGavock, J., & Hobin, E. (2020). //Use as directed: do standard drink labels on alcohol containers help consumers drink (ir)responsibly? Real‐world evidence from a quasi‐experimental study in Yukon, Canada.// Drug and Alcohol Review, 40(2), 247–257. https://doi.org/10.1111/dar.13165)) ((Chiarelli, A. M., Blackmore, K. M., Mirea, L., Done, S. J., Majpruz, V., Weerasinghe, A., Rabeneck, L., & Muradali, D. (2019). //Annual vs Biennial Screening: Diagnostic Accuracy Among Concurrent Cohorts Within the Ontario Breast Screening Program.// JNCI: Journal of the National Cancer Institute, 112(4), 400–409. https://doi.org/10.1093/jnci/djz131)) ((Weerasinghe, A., Smith, C. R., Majpruz, V., Pandya, A., Blackmore, K. M., Holloway, C. M. B., Segal-Nadlere, R., Paroschy Harris, C., Hendry, A., Hey, A., Kornecki, A., Lougheed, G., Maier, B.-A., Marchand, P., McCready, D., Rand, C., Raphael, S., Sehgal, N., & Chiarelli, A. M. (2018). //Validity of Administrative Databases in Comparison to Medical Charts for Breast Cancer Treatment Data.// Journal of Cancer Epidemiology, 2018, 1–12. https://doi.org/10.1155/2018/9218595)) ((McGavock, J., Brunton, N., Klaprat, N., Swanson, A., Pancoe, D., Manley, E., Weerasinghe, A., Booth, G. L., Russell, K., Rosella, L., & Hobin, E. (2019). //Walking on Water—A Natural Experiment of a Population Health Intervention to Promote Physical Activity after the Winter Holidays.// International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 16(19), 3627. https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph16193627))