Dr Wasana Kalansooriya is a Research Associate in Health Economics at King’s College London. She holds a PhD from the City, University of London. Her bachelor’s and master’s degrees from Economics and the PhD from Health Economics. Her research interest is on food security, demand system analysis, cost of illness, out-of-pocket healthcare expenditures and health related labour market outcomes of people with long-term illness. She has done research using national-level longitudinal data in Low- and Middle-income countries and in the UK.

Her current research focuses on the resource use for formal and informal care by stroke survivors, and the outcomes with early support discharge of stroke survivors.