Prof Dileep De Silva

Department of Community Dental Health, Faculty of Dental Sciences

dileepdesilva@dental.pdn.ac.lk

+94 081 239 7320

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Prof Dileep De Silva

Chair Professor of Community Dentistry
PhD in Healthcare Management
MBA – University of Colombo- 1999/2000
Doctor of Medicine (MD)- Community Dentistry
MSc- Community Dentistry
Master of Surgery (Oral Surgery-,Part 1) Post Graduate Institute of Medicine University of Colombo 2004
BDS (Hons) Peradeniya, Sri Lanka

Biography

hair Professor of Community Dentistry and Specialist in Health Finance

Research Awards, Grants & Patents:

National Apex award under Health and Medicine category (awarded by the Organization of Professional Associations-OPA for professional excellence ) Sri Lanka- 2013
Merit Award for publications- National Research Council of Sri Lanka 2015
Australia Awards Fellowship-Monash University 2017/18
Goodeve Medal for the Best paper published in the Journal of the Operational Research Society (JORS) in 2015. ( J Oper Res Soc 66:1566-1577) . Title of the paper “How many dentists does Sri Lanka Need? Modelling to inform policy decisions” Awarded by the Operational Research Society. The Goodeve Medal is awarded in recognition of the most outstanding contribution to the philosophy, theory or practice of Operational Research, published in the Journal of the OR Society (JORS) or OR Insight (ORI), within the relevant year.
World Prize Finalist- For the application of System Dynamics for Health Development in a developing country. Awarded by the International Federation of Operational Research Societies(IFORS) -2011
Winner of The Asia Pacific Action Alliance on Human Resources for Health (AAAH) award 2020

Research Interests

Health Finance and Health system research

Ongoing Research Projects

Publications

How many dentists does Sri Lanka need? Modelling to inform policy decisions. Dileep De Silva, Sally Brailsford. Journal of the Operational Research Society (2015) 1–12
Analysing public sector institutional capacity for health workforce governance in the South-East Asia region of WHO. Giorgio Cometto, Dileep De Silva et al. Human Resources for Health 2019 17:43 https://human-resources-health.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s12960-019-0385-1
How many Medical specialists do Ministry of Health- Sri Lanka need by 2025: Use of system dynamics modelling for policy decisions. De Silva MDK Ceylon Medical Journal 2017; 62:141- 148 DOI: http://doi.org/10.4038/cmj.v62i3.8517
Mercury levels in hair samples of dentists: A comparative study in Sri Lanka De Silva, Dileep, Ekanayake, Sagarika, Gamage, Nandasena, Jayasinghe, Ruwan, Gamage, Sachindra, Usoof, Rinzee, Wijesekera, Anjana Journal of Investigative and Clinical Dentistry 2017; e12302.l DOI: 10.1111/jicd.12302 13.
Estimation of provider cost and the out of pocket expenditure for cataract surgery at a base hospital. C Perera, D De Silva, L.R.P Perera. Ceylon Medical Journal 2016; 61(4):200 http://doi.org/10.4038/cmj.v61i4.8395