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Ashini Weerasinghe
Career and Affiliations
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.
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.1)
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.2) 3) 4) 5)
1)
About Us. (2021, August 3). Ontario COVID-19 Science Advisory Table. https://web.archive.org/web/20210803202104/https://covid19-sciencetable.ca/about/
2)
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
3)
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
4)
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
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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