L Gayani Tillekeratne

Assistant Professor of Medicine, Division of Infectious Diseases

Assistant Research Professor, Global Health

Gayani Tillekeratne, MD MSc is an Assistant Professor in the Division of Infectious Diseases and at the Duke Global Health Institute. Her work focuses on the improving the diagnosis and management of acute respiratory tract infections globally, with the goal of improving antimicrobial use for these infections. She is co-director of the Ruhuna-Duke Centre for Infectious Diseases in Sri Lanka and works with colleagues in Southeast Asia and East Africa. She is a co-investigator in several US clinical trials for COVID-19 vaccines and therapeutics. She co-instructs a course on Infectious Disease Epidemiology in Global Settings.

Courses

GLHLTH 777

Infectious Disease Epidemiology in Global Settings – Surveillance, Prevention, & Control

Projects

ACTIV-1 (COVID-19 therapeutic trial)
United States
RADx-UP CDCC (COVID-19 diagnostics)
United States
Partnership for Enhancing Antimicrobial Use in Resource-Limited Settings (PEARL)
Kenya, Sri Lanka, Tanzania
Surveillance for severe dengue in southern Sri Lanka
Sri Lanka
Novel Diagnostics to Improve Antimicrobial Stewardship for Acute Respiratory Tract Infections in Resource-Limited Settings
Sri Lanka
A One Health approach to antibiotic-resistant Enterobacteriaceae in South Asia
Sri Lanka
Antibiotic-resistant Enterobacteriaceae in community-acquired urinary tract infections, southern Sri Lanka
Sri Lanka

Publications

Ko ER, Henao R, Frankey K, Petzold EA, Isner PD, Jaehne AK, et al. Prospective Validation of a Rapid Host Gene Expression Test to Discriminate Bacterial From Viral Respiratory Infection. Jama Netw Open. 2022 Apr 1;5(4):e227299.
Bodinayake CK, Nagahawatte AD, Devasiri V, Dahanayake NJ, Wijayaratne GB, Weerasinghe NP, et al. Outcomes among children and adults at risk of severe dengue in Sri Lanka: Opportunity for outpatient case management in countries with high disease burden. Plos Negl Trop Dis. 2021 Dec;15(12):e0010091.
Meredith HR, Kularatna S, Nagaro K, Nagahawatte A, Bodinayake C, Kurukulasooriya R, et al. Colonization with multidrug-resistant Enterobacteriaceae among infants: an observational study in southern Sri Lanka. Antimicrob Resist Infect Control. 2021 Apr 30;10(1):72.
Rolfe R, Kwobah C, Muro F, Ruwanpathirana A, Lyamuya F, Bodinayake C, et al. Barriers to implementing antimicrobial stewardship programs in three low- and middle-income country tertiary care settings: findings from a multi-site qualitative study. Antimicrob Resist Infect Control. 2021 Mar 25;10(1):60.
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