Pain Pathway

Pain Pathway creator and Principal Investigator

Dr Alexis Palfreyman is a suicidologist and interdisciplinary researcher with 16+ years’ experience in global health, international development, and academia. She’s worked across South(east) and Central Asia, Sub-Saharan Africa and the UK. Her work combines public health and social science approaches to better understand global health problems and explore promising solutions. She has been leading research on self-directed violence among women and girls since 2009.

Pain Pathway Collaborators

This website and Pain Pathway Stories were generously funded by the Naughton Clift-Matthews Global Health Fund and University College London’s Global Engagement Fund. The original research behind the Pathway was part-funded by the UK Economic and Social Research Council and supported by the London School of Economics and Political Science.

Key Research Collaborators

Prof. Nilanthi de Silva

University of Kelaniya Professor and Vice Chancellor

Prof. Anuruddhi Edirisinghe

University of Kelaniya Professor

Dr Piumi Managoda

Ms Chamilya Perera

Departments of Forensics, Medicine (Dr Shaluka Jayamanne), Obstetrics (Professor Prasantha Wijesinghe and Dr Rasika Herath), Psychiatry (Dr Asiri Rodrigo and Professor Shehan Williams), and Public Health (Professor Arunasalam Pathmeswaran and Dr Manuja Perera)

University of Kelaniya's Faculty of Medicine

Regional Director of Health Services (Gampaha)

Dr Tilak Udayasiri and Dr Indika Erandi

Colombo North Teaching Hospital

Administrators, consultants, registrars, house officers and nurses

National Hospital

Consultants & administrators

Public Health Midwives and Nurses and Medical Officers of Maternal and Child Health across Gampaha District

Creative Collaborators

Dr Sarah Barnett

Dr Valentina Iemmi

Harinda Fonseka

Lojini Shanmuganathan

Translations

Shivasankarie Kanthasamy

Translations

Theekshana Devindi

Translations