Head-Department of Applied Nutrition/Senior Lecturer
Wayamba University of Sri Lanka, Sri Lanka
Dr. Kumari M. Rathnayake obtained her B.Sc. Special Degree in Nutrition with a first class honours from Wayamba University of Sri Lanka, M.Phil in Food and Nutrition from University of Peradeniya and PhD in Human Nutrition from Department of Food and Nutritional Sciences, University of Reading, UK. She has been awarded Commonwealth Scholarship on merit basis to pursue her PhD in UK. She started her academic career as a Lecturer in the Department of Applied Nutrition, Wayamba University of Sri Lanka and currently she is working as the Senior lecturer/Head of the Department of Applied Nutrition, Wayamba University of Sri Lanka with 17 years of experience as a university academic and a registered Nutritionist attached to a leading state university in Sri Lanka offering one and only undergraduate degree in Nutrition. She has strong publication record in the field of public health and clinical Nutrition with added experience in working with UN agencies and Ministry of Health, Sri Lanka. Further, she had served the council of the Nutrition Society of Sri Lanka as a council member and a Joint Secretary.