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Dr Geetha Ranmuthugala - Senior Research Fellow

Telephone: +61 3 5454 8714
Facsimile: +61 3 5454 8719
Email: geetha.ranmuthugala@med.monash.edu.au

Academic Qualifications

  • MBBS (University of Papus New Guinea)
  • Master of Applied Epidemiology (Australian National University)
  • PhD in Epidemiology and Population Health (Australian National University) 

Organisational Affiliations

  • Fellow, Royal Institute of Public Health (UK)
  • Affiliate, RACGP

Research Interests

  • Chronic disease in rural communities (screening and improving care)
  • Quantitative epidemiological research methods
  • Environmental Epidemiology, particularly water quality and health
  • Health Services Evaluation

Grants

  • Risks and Benefits of arsenic mitigation programs in Bangladesh.
    B, Caldwell, J, Caldwell, R. Douglas, G. Ranmuthugala, W.Smith, J. Ng, M, Sim, Md. A. Milton, M.Sinclair, A, Harris, M. Moore.   $1,400,000 – AusAID -October 2001.

Selected Publications

Monographs

  • Falconer IR, Moore MR, Chapman HF and Ranmuthugala G. 2003. Endocrine Disruptors in the Context of Australian Drinking Water. Occasional Paper Number 7. CRC for Water Quality and Treatment, Adelaide, Australia. ISBN 1876616229
  • McGuiness C, Ranmuthugala G, Sibthorpe B, Mira M. Infrastructure spending in 32 Divisions of General Practice 1993/94. National Centre for Epidemiology and Population Health, The Australian National University, Canberra, ACT 0200. Prepared for the Divisions Steering Group, Commonwealth Department of Health, to assist in the review of Divisions of General Practice.

Journal Articles

  • Ranmuthugala G, Abul H Milton,  Wayne Smith, Jack Ng, Malcolm Sim, Keith Dear, Bruce Caldwell.  Intervention trial to assess arsenic exposure from food crops in Bangladesh.  Archives of Environmental Health.  - in press
  • Pilotto L, Hobson P, Burch M, Ranmuthugala G, Attewell R, Weightman W.  Acute skin irritant effects of cyanobacteria (blue-green algae) in healthy volunteers.  Aust N Z J Public Health 2004; 28: 220-4
  • Murshed R, Douglas R, Ranmuthugala G, Caldwell B. 2004. Clinicians' roles in management of arsenicosis in Bangladesh: Interview study. BMJ., 328 (7438). p 493.
  • Ranmuthugala G, Pilotto L, Smith W, Vimalasiri T, Dear K, Douglas R. Chlorinated drinking water and micronuclei in urinary bladder epithelial cells. Epidemiology. 2003; 14: 617-622.
  • Ranmuthugala G, Karr M, Mira M, Causer J, Alperstein G, Jones M. Opportunistic sampling from early childhood centre: A substitute for random sampling to determine lead and iron status of pre-school children?  ANZJPH 1998; 22(4): 512-514.
  • Hellard M.E, Sinclair M.I, Ranmuthugala G. Pilotto L.S, Padiglione A, Robertson B.E, Fairley C.K.  Beyond Coliforms:  Measuring Human Health   Water (Journal Australian Water and Wastewater Association)   1997; 24 (5) 26 - 28.
  • Ranmuthugala G, McInness E, Mira M, Atkin N, Rendalls S, Kennedy P. A comparison of stated versus actual GP participation rates in the general practitioner pre-discharge project. Australian Family Physician  1997; Vol 26; suppl. 2.  104 - 108.
  • Mira M, Alperstein G, Karr M, Ranmuthugala G, Causer J, Niec A, Lilburne A.  Haem iron intake in 12-36 month old children depleted in iron: case-control study  BMJ  1996;312;881-3.