Geetha Ranmuthugala is an epidemiologist with a track record and interest in health services research, rural health, environmental epidemiology, and Aboriginal Health. Having done her medical training in Papua New Guinea, Geetha practiced as a clinician in rural PNG, Sri Lanka and in Tasmania prior to training as an epidemiologist at the National Centre for Epidemiology and Population Health at the Australian National University. Geetha has a particular interest in research that will inform the delivery of safe and high quality care to rural Australians. MBBS (UPNG), MapplEpi (ANU), PhD (ANU) Epidemiology, health service evaluation, research to inform health service redesign, environmental epidemiology.

When in general practice, involvements with the FRACGP, Universities of Sydney, NSW and Newcastle in student attachments from 1998 to 2012.

Partanen R, Ranmuthugala G, Kondalswamy-Chennakesavan, S, van Driel M. Is three a crowd? Impact of Medical Student Presence in the General Practice Consultation. Med Educ. 2016 Feb;50(2):225-35. Hawke KL, McGuire TM, Ranmuthugala G, van Driel ML. What do consumers want to know about antibiotics? Analysis of a medicines call centre database. Fam Pract. 2016 Feb;33(1):75-81. doi: 10.1093/fampra/cmv083. Epub 2015 Oct 26. Kondalsamy-Chennakesavan S, Eley D, Ranmuthugala G, Chater AB, Toombs M, Darshan D, Nicholson GC. New evidence on growing the rural medical workforce: Positive interaction between longer rural background and longer rural undergraduate training. MJA. 2015 Jan 19;202(1):41-5. Black EB, Ranmuthugala G, Kondalsamy-Chennakesavan S, Toombs MR, Nicholson GC, Kisely S. A systematic review: Identifying the prevalence rates of psychiatric disorder in Australia's Indigenous populations. Aust N Z J Psychiatry. 2015 May;49(5):412-429. Tang R, Ranmuthugala G, Cunningham F. Surgical Safety Checklists: A review. ANZ Journal of Surgery. 2014 Mar;84(3):148-54. Spangaro J, Zwi A, Adogu C, Ranmuthugala G, et al. What evidence exists for initiatives to reduce risk and incidence of sexual violence in armed conflict and other humanitarian crises? A systematic review. PLOS ONE . 2013 May 15;8(5):e62600. doi: 10.1371. Cunningham FC, Ranmuthugala G, Plumb J, et al. Networks in healthcare, their structures, characteristics and effectiveness. A systematic review. BMJ Quality and Safety 2012;21(3):239-49. Cunningham FC, Ranmuthugala G, Westbrook JI, Braithwaite J. Net benefits: assessing the effectiveness of clinical networks in Australia through qualitative methods. Implement Sci. 2012 Nov 2;7:108. doi: 10.1186/1748-5908-7-108. Ranmuthugala G, Plumb JJ, Cunningham F, et al. How and why are communities of practice established in the healthcare sector? A systematic review of the literature. BMC Health Services Research 2011 Oct 14;11:273. Ranmuthugala G, Brown L, Lidbury BA. Respiratory syncytial virus - the unrecognised cause of health and economic burden among young children in Australia. Communicable Diseases Intelligence. 2011;35(2):177–184. Nepal B, Brown L, Ranmuthugala G, Percival R. A comparison of the lifetime economic prospect of women informal carers and non-carers, Australia, 2007. Australian Journal of Social Issues.2011;46(1):91-108. Ranmuthugala G, Cunningham FC, Plumb JJ, Long J, Georgiou A, Westbrook JI, Braithwaite J. A realist evaluation of the role of communities of practice in changing healthcare practice (Study protocol) Implementation Science 2011, 6:49. Ranmuthugala G, Brown L, Thurecht L, Lymer S. Validating self-reported private health insurance status in the National Health Survey 2004-05. Australian New Zealand Journal of Public Health. 2010;34(6):572-577. Nepal B, Brown L, Ranmuthugala G. Modelling the impact of modifying lifestyle risk factors on dementia prevalence in Australian population aged 45 years and over, 2006 2051" Australasian Journal on Ageing, 2010; Vol 29(3):111–116. Braithwaite, J., Westbrook, J., Ranmuthugala, G., et al. The development, design, testing, refinement, simulation and application of an evaluation framework for communities of practice and social-professional networks. BMC Health Services Research. 2009;9(1):162 Ranmuthugala G, Nepal B, Brown L. Impact of home-based long-term care on informal carers. Australian Family Physician.2009;38(8):618-620. Nepal B, Brown L, Ranmuthugala G. Years of life lived with and without dementia in Australia, 2004-2006: a population health measure. Aust N Z J Public Health. 2008 Dec;32(6):565-8. Spencer R, Cardin A, Ranmuthugala G, Somers G, Solarsh B. Influences on medical students' decisions to study at a Rural Clinical School. Australian Journal of Rural Health.2008;16(5), 262-268. Nepal B, Ranmuthugala G, Brown L, Budge M. Modelling costs of dementia in Australia: evidence, gaps, and needs. Australian Health Review. 2008; 32 (3): 479-487. Ranmuthugala G, Brown L, Lymer S, Thurecht S. Hospital admissions in the NHS and hospital separations in the NHMD: What is the difference? Australian New Zealand Journal of Public Health. 2008;32:276 - 281. Ranmuthugala G. Ensuring the delivery of quality health care (letter to the editor). Australian Health Review. 2008 Feb 1;32(1):5-6. Wright AA, Ranmuthugala G, Jones J, Disler P, Maydom B, Charnley C, Kronus R, et al. Rural Organisation of Acute Stroke Team (ROAST) project. Internal Medicine Journal. 2008 Jan;38(1):32-7. Ranmuthugala G, Humphreys J, Solarsh B, et al. Where is the evidence that rural exposure increases uptake of rural medical practice? Australian Journal of Rural Health. 2007;15(5):285-8. Review Ranmuthugala G, Humphreys J, Solarsh B, Walters L, Wakerman J, Dunbar JA, Solarsh G. Identifying the aspects of rural exposure that influence medical students to take up rural practice. Medical Education (Letter to the editor). 2007 Jul;41(7):718. Milton AH, Smith W, Dear K, Sim M, Ranmuthugala G, Lokuge K, et al. Randomised intervention trial to assess two arsenic mitigation options in Bangladesh. J. Environ. Sci. Health, Part A. 2007;A42(12): 1897 – 1908.