Governance & Advisory Board

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Directorate

Image	Prof Michael Eddleston	The University of Edinburgh	Co-Director
Image	Prof Indika Gawarammana	University of Peradeniya	Co-Director
Image	Prof Aniruddha Ghose	Chattogram Medical College Hospital	Deputy Director
Image	Prof James Dear	The University of Edinburgh	Deputy Director
Image	Dr Fazle Rabbi Chowdhury	Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujib Medical University	Deputy Director
Image	Ms Shalini Wickramasuriya		Community Engagement & Involvement Lead
Image	Dr Raul Pardíñaz-Solís	The University of Edinburgh	Centre Manager
Image	Dr Suvodip Shaw	The University of Edinburgh	Senior Trial Manager
Image	Dr Fahim Cader Mohamed	South Asian Clinical Toxicology Research Collaboration	Director-South Asian Clinical Research (SACR)

Work Programme Leads

Image	Prof Knut Erik Hovda	Oslo University Hospital	Work Programme 1 (Methanol)
Image	Prof Ashish Bhalla	Institute of Post Graduate Medical Education & Research	Work Programme 1 (Methanol)
Image	Prof Michael Eddleston	The University of Edinburgh	Work Programme 2 (Pesticides)
Image	Dr Jane Brandt Sørensen	University of Copenhagen, Department of Public Health	Work Programme 2 (Pesticides)
Image	Prof Nicholas Buckley	The University of Sydney	Work Programme 3 (Guidelines)
Image	Prof James Dear	The University of Edinburgh	Work Programme 4 (Research Capacity)
Image	Ms Carine Marks	Stellenbosch University	Work Programme 5 (PIC Capacity)
Image	Dr Euan Sandilands	NHS Lothian	Work Programme 5 (PIC Capacity)

Methodology Leads and Governance

Image	Dr Man Li Tse	Hospital Authority Hong Kong	Poison Information Centres Lead
Image	Prof Alice Street	The University of Edinburgh	Qualitative Research Lead
Image	Prof Christopher Weir	The University of Edinburgh	Statistics & Methodology Lead
Image	Prof Flemming Konradsen	University of Copenhagen, Department of Public Health	Health Economics Lead
Image	Dr Ayanthi Karunarathne	Ministry of Health, Sri Lanka	Public Health Lead
Image	Dr Rebecca McDonald	University of Oslo	United Nations Liaison
Image	Dr Jane Brandt Sørensen	University of Copenhagen, Department of Public Health	Social Sciences Lead

Advisory Board

The role of the International Advisory Board includes providing strategic advice and support to the project. The board will ensure that governance procedures are followed, ethical approvals have been obtained, best practice is followed in research conduct, and safeguarding procedures are in place to ensure participant and researcher safety.

Dr Badria Alhatali

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Dr. Alhatali is the head of the poison control section, in the department of environmental and occupational Health, at the Ministry of Health in Sultanate of Oman.

She is a consultant in the emergency medicine at the Royal Hospital and is the Program Director of the Emergency Medicine in the Oman Medical Specialty Board (OMSB).

She is the President of Middle East and North Africa Association of Medical Toxicology (MENATOX) and a member in the EXTRIP group.

She graduated from Oman Medical Specialty Board in 2012, certified by the Arab Emergency Medicine Board. She finished her Post-Doctoral Fellowship in medical toxicology at Emory University and the Georgia Poison Center in Atlanta, USA in 2014.

She developed the poison consultation services in Oman and has lectured in countries around the world, and has numerous awards to her credit. Dr Alhatali true passion for Toxicology is advancing the field in the MENA region.

Dr Harini Amarasuriya

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Dr. Harini Amarasuriya was nominated by the National People’s Power coalition to the 9th Parliament of Sri Lanka in August 2020.

For the past decade, Dr. Amarasuriya served as a senior lecturer in Sociology at the Open University of Sri Lanka. Since 2016, she serves as a Member of the University Grants Commission Standing Committee on Gender Equality and Equity.

In 2016, she served as a member of the Public Representations Committee on Constitutional Reforms in Sri Lanka (PRC). She was Secretary of the Open University Teachers Association (2012-2013), Assistant Secretary (2014-2015) and Secretary (2016) of the Federation of University Teachers Association.

In 2014, Dr. Amarasuriya was the lead author on the National Human Development Report for Sri Lanka, and also participated in drafting the National Youth Policy of Sri Lanka that year. She has published on politics, social justice, discrimination, youth social exclusion, women, child labour, institutionalised child-care, early marriage, well-being, and intellectual property.

Professor Dag Jacobsen

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Professor Jacobsen is the Director of the Department of Acute Medicine at Oslo University hospital. This department consists of a MICU (10 beds), Observation unit (17 beds) and the Norwegian centre for CBRNE medicine. He is a board certified toxicologist (NAVF) and a specialist in clinical pharmacology, internal medicine & cardiology and has extensive clinical and research experience in acute/intensive medical care – including clinical toxicology.

His research focus on acute poisonings and intensive care, in particular regarding acid/base-disturbances, toxic alcohols and use of elimination procedures in poisoned patients. He has been the Medical director for the National Poisons Information Centre for more than 30 years – and is still on call here.

During the years 1990-2000 he worked part time with the IPCS/WHO/EU programme on evaluation of antidotes and in consolidating poisons information centres in the developing world.

Dr Nanda Kishore Kannuri

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Dr Nanda Kishore is an anthropologist with over 20 years of work experience, including action research, program management in social development, academic research, teaching and consultancy. He worked for national and international development organizations before moving to Indian Institute of Public Health Hyderabad, Public Health Foundation of India in 2009.

Dr Kannuri currently holds adjunct appointment at IIT Hyderabad, IIPH Shillong, and Dalla Lana School of Public Health, University of Toronto and Guest Faculty at ICMR School of Public Health, National Institute of Epidemiology, Chennai.

He is keen to apply anthropological approaches and ethnographic methods to research on contemporary issues in public health. His research areas of his interest include Socio-cultural and ecological factors of health and well-being, Mental health, Health policy & systems research, Technology for health, Applied Medical Anthropology, Tribal Health, Multi species ethnography, Community based participatory research approaches, Human Centred design, Citizen Science and Public Health and Sustainable Development.

Dr Katy Newell-Jones

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Dr Katy Newell-Jones is an independent consultant in global health, education and community participation. With over 30 years’ experience supporting community engagement and capacity building of health, social care workers and community members in low- and middle-income countries. Katy has worked for the NGO sector as Programme Director for Feed the Minds UK, and in higher education, holding a National Teaching Fellowship from the Higher Education Academy and an honorary research fellowship at the Nuffield Department of Medicine, Oxford.

Katy has interest in participatory community research and the adoption of evidence-based approaches to bring about attitudinal and behavioural change. She has undertaken ethnographic research on attitudes, beliefs and practices associated with harmful traditional practices and facilitated workshops to promote critical analysis to bring about change. Katy is a lead author for Ethical considerations in research on female genital mutilation (WHO 2021) and provided technical assistance for the development of Person-centred communication for female genital mutilation prevention: a facilitator’s guide for training health-care providers (2022).

Mr Fredrick Otieno

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Fredrick Otieno is a project officer at the Centre for Environmental Justice and Development (CEJAD), a public interest organization based in Kenya that is promoting sound management of chemicals and wastes.

At CEJAD, he leads implementation of projects on pesticides’ risk reduction, working with communities, and policy makers at the national, regional as well as international level. He is coordinating HHPs risk reduction activities at national and regional levels in the EAC and Southern African Development Community (SADC) in collaboration with Centre for Pesticide Suicide Prevention (CPSP), Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) and EAC Secretariat and Southern African Pesticide Regulators Forum (SAPReF).

Previously, he worked with the Environmental Compliance Institute (ECI) where he assisted in developing air quality management strategies in Rwanda, Kenya and Ethiopia, and harmonizing vehicle emissions and fuel standards in the East Africa Community (EAC) region. He holds a Master’s Degree in Chemicals Risk Management from the University of Cape Town, South Africa.

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