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Palitha Abeykoon is a Senior Adviser at the Sri Lankan Ministry of Health and formerly a WHO Special Envoy for COVID-19 Preparedness and Response. He is a member of the WHO/World Bank Global Preparedness Monitoring Board and the WHO Academy Quality Committee.
Palitha previously held roles with WHO as health workforce advisor in Nepal and Indonesia as well as regional roles including Director of Health Systems Development. He is currently a Member of National Medicines Authority of Sri Lanka.
Past roles included chair or the Sri Lankan National Authority on Tobacco and Alcohol. He was awarded the Dr. Fred Katz Award of the Australia and New Zealand Association of Medical and the Lifetime Award for contribution to Public Health by the Asia Pacific Academic Consortium for Public Health.