Shashika Bandara is a Senior Lecturer at the Department of Global Population Health focused on social and structural determinants of health. His research and advocacy focus largely on global health policy and governance. He received his doctoral degree from McGill University and his master’s from Duke University.

Prior to joining Monash Malaysia, Shashika completed his post-doctoral fellowship at the Department of Global Public Health in the School of Population and Global Health at McGill University where he conducted research and was a lead instructor in global health courses. His research topics included examining consensus building in global health and strengthening global health education using an equity lens. He also co-led McGill University’s research on policy exemplars addressing structural discrimination to improve health in collaboration with the Lancet Commission on Racism, Structural Discrimination and Global Health. He was also an executive council member of McGill Global Health Program.