Expertise in: Migration Health, Health Equity & Planetary Health

Dr Santhushya Fernando, a specialist in public health, is a Senior Lecturer in Medical Humanities at the Faculty of Medicine, University of Colombo, and a researcher on arts & humanities and health, inequality, and planetary health.  She has worked in the Cheddikulam IDP camp in post-war Sri Lanka and led the incorporation of an internal migration health module into a medical curriculum at Rajarata University, Sri Lanka. Her many publications include co-authoring “Montage of Sexuality in Sri Lanka,” published by the UNPFA, and a chapter in the Routledge Handbook of Contemporary Sri Lanka on COVID-19, politics, and social justice.