Vidya Jyothi Professor Vajira H.W. Dissanayake is the Chair and Senior Professor in the Department of Anatomy, Genetics, and Biomedical Informatics and the Dean of the Faculty of Medicine, University of Colombo, Sri Lanka. He is a pioneer in Genetics, Genomics, Biomedical Informatics and Bioethics in Sri Lanka. 

Keynote Speech on:

“Strengthening Health Care with Digital Technologies and Genomics”

Professor Krish Nirantharakumar is the Joint Director for the Centre for Health Data Science and Professor in Health Data Science and Public Health at the Institute of Applied Health Research, University of Birmingham. Krish’s research interest spans across methodology development in epidemiology to clinical research in diabetes, endocrinology, women’s health and multimorbidity. Krish’s unique innovative methodological programme of work, known as “Automated Clinical Epidemiology Studies (ACES)”.

Krish is passionate to support junior staff, particularly from under-represented backgrounds to develop into self-sustaining leaders. His contribution was recognised and highlighted in BMJ as a role model. 

He has made significant achievements in: 1) developing, implementing and evaluating digital technologies for learning health systems and real-world evidence research; 2) clinical and public health themes relating to diabetes epidemiology, women’s health and multimorbidity; and 3) global health.

Keynote Speech on:

“Data and digital technology enabled learning health systems to improve care in low and middle income countries”