• National Institute of Health Research, UK
  • Member, Global Health Research Selection Panel, (2017- to date)

• World Health Organization:
  • Member, SEARO Regional Director’s Technical Advisory Committee (2015- to date)
  • Temporary Advisor and Team Leader, project to Estimate the Global Burden of Snakebite (2007-2008)
  • Facilitator, Bi-Regional Workshop on Production, Control and Regulation of Antivenoms, Jakarta, Indonesia, May, 2008
  • Temporary Adviser, South East Asia Regional Office, on “Hepatitis and the way forward in South East Asia Region”, New Delhi, India, June, 2010
  • Invited Expert, International WHO-ICF Consensus on Inflammatory Bowel Diseases, Nottwil, Switzerland, June, 2010
  • Temporary Adviser, SEARO, to develop “Guidelines for the management of snakebite in the South East Asia Region”, New Delhi, India, June, 2016

• Wellcome Trust:
  • Chairman (2009-2014), Independent Scientific Advisory Board, Mahidol–Oxford –Wellcome Trust Tropical Medicine Research Programme, Thailand-Laos. (Member - 2008)
  • Member, Centres for Global Health Research Themed Strategic Awards Committee, London, 2012
  • Invited participant, Wellcome Trust Advanced Courses and Scientific Conferences programme on, “Mechanisms to reverse the public health neglect of snakebite victims”, Cambridge, September 2015

• Member, Council of the Asia Pacific Association of Gastroenterology (1998-2008).

• Asia Pacific Association for the Study of the Liver:
  • Member, Working Party on Portal Hypertension (2005-2011)
  • Member, Working Party on Acute on Chronic Liver Failure (2008-2013)

• Asia Pacific Association of Gastroenterology:
  • Member, Working Group on Inflammatory Bowel Disease (2008-)
  • Member, Asia Pacific Working Party on Non-Alcoholic Fatty Liver Disease (2006)
• Member, Advisory Board, University of Medical Sciences of Bhutan (2015-2018).

• Kofi Annan Foundation, Geneva
  • Invited Expert, “Snakebites in Africa: Challenges and Solutions”, December 2016

• Senior Advisor, South Asian Clinical Toxicology Research Collaboration (2011-2017).

Prof. I.D.G.Kitulwatte attached to the Department of Forensic Medicine is involved in a project where her consultancy is provided to the WHO and the Family Health Bureau in "In-depth analysis on the post-mortems reports conducted on the maternal deaths reported to MDSR system (2011 - 2020)".  The objective of the review is to evaluate the standards of the post mortem reports conducted on the maternal deaths reported to MDSR system during the period.  Ultimately it is expected to improve the quality of the post mortem examinations and reporting regarding maternal deaths which can influence positively on prevention of maternal deaths in Sri Lanka.

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