Projects

Ongoing Projects

Completed Projects

  • South Asian Early Development & Research Capacity Building Project

    The Medical Research Council of the United Kingdom (MRC-UK) launched ‘Confidence in Global Mental Health Research: Institutional “pump-priming” awards to develop new opportunities in Global Mental Health Research’ in July 2017 . Through these awards, the MRC-UK offered a one…

  • The CODATwins Project

    In 2013, SLTR partnered with an international research project: Collection of a Collaborative Database CODATwins project (CODAT) identifying 67 twin projects in the world which included 54 twin cohorts representing 22 countries, by sharing data of these two waves. ​

  • CoTASS 2 Sub-study: Heart Rate Variability

    Tcolombo Twin and Singleton Follow.up study (CoTaSS 2) is a collaboration between Institute for Research and Development and Kings College London, U K which is being conducted in Colombo CoTaSS 2 is the largest twin Study being conducted in South…

  • CoTASS 2 Sub-study: The Sleep study

    The Sleep sub-study was conducted within the Colombo Twin and Singleton Follow-up Study and determined the contribution of sleep and activity to the prevalence of metabolic syndrome and depression in Sri Lanka. It also aimed help to understand the potential for estimating the…

  • Colombo Twin and Singleton Follow-up Study(CoTASS 2)

    Strong evidence exists which suggests associations between cardiovascular disease, diabetes and depression. The Colombo Twin and Singleton Study follow-up Study (CoTaSS 2) seeks to explore this in the Sri Lankan population and estimate the extent of overlapping genetic and environmental…

  • Colombo Twin and Singleton Study(CoTASS 1)

    Examined the prevalence and heritability of a range of psychiatric disorders and gene-environmental interplay using a twin sample and a comparative singleton sample.