DrNavoda Liyana Pathirana

The SCANNER team at Deakin University has been named a finalist in the 2025–26 Research Australia Health and Medical Research Awards, a prestigious national recognition spanning Australia's entire health and medical research sector. The team is a finalist in the Frontiers Award, which recognises research breaking new ground in how health challenges are understood and addressed. SCANNER uses artificial intelligence to automatically detect harmful marketing, such as alcohol and unhealthy food advertising, across digital platforms, generating evidence to inform public health policy.

Selected to one of 15 Equity Hothouse Future Leaders Fellows out of 200 applicants (8% success rate) to participate in 2025 Future Leaders Program, hosted by the Planetary Health Equity Hothouse, within the School of Regulation and Global Governance, the Australian National University

Internatioanl Partnership Research Award was awarded to Professor Kathryn Backholer, Oliver Huse, Dr Christina Zorbas, Ella Robinson, Dr Navoda Liyana Pathirana, Dr Cherrie Russell, Dr Erica Reeve and Christine Driessen from Deakin and Dr Vani Sethi and Dr Zivai Murira from UNICEF at Faculty of Health Partnership in Practice Awards 2024

EMCR Awards of Insititute for Health Transformations

Thirteenth International Conference on Food Studies

Faculty of Science, the University of Sydney

Australian Museum

University of Sri Jayewardenepura, Sri Lanka

University of Sri Jayewardenepura, Sri Lanka

Awarded for student with Highest GPA for 3rd and 4th years in Bachelor of Science (Honours) Food Science and Technology, University of Sri Jayewardenepura, Sri Lanka

Abstract reviewer

Abstract reviewer

Abstract reviewer