Damith is completing his PhD in the School of Sport, Exercise and Health Sciences at Loughborough University, UK. He was offered his first degree in Social Statistics in 2008 and earned two masters, M.A. in Economics (2009) and M.Sc. in Applied Statistics (2015), in Sri Lanka. Damith works as a university teacher attached to the Department of Social Statistics, the University of Kelaniya in Sri Lanka. The aim of his PhD program is to identify the impact of socio-economic factors on early child development (ECD) in South Asia with a particular focus on Sri Lanka.
Projects
2023
Drivers of food choice among school-aged children in Fiji
2023-2025
Pic More Veg
2023
Technical assistance on the impact of the crisis on diets in Asia and the Pacific for WFP
2022-2023
Assistance to UNICEF for the development of Maternal Nutrition costed technical operational guidelines and standard operating procedures in Bangladesh
2022-2023
Assistance to UNICEF to conduct a research on the food environment factors affecting young children, adolescents, and mothers’ diets in Fiji
2022
Assistance to UNICEF to conduct a review of policies and programmes in prevention and management of all forms of malnutrition across all life stages in 14 Pacific Island Countries
Researchers
Amal A. Abed
Nutrition, WASH, health education, and MEAL program and research expert
Projects: DIKODA
