Dr.Jeevani Dahanayake is a senior lecturer at the Department of Dravyaguna Vignana and Swastha vritta (Ayurveda Pharmacology, Pharmaceutics and Community Medicine), Faculty of Indigenous Medicine, University of Colombo. She educated in Devi Balika Vidyalya, Colombo and entered the IIM in 1998 and obtained BAMS with honours pass from University of Colombo in 2004.
Dr. Dahanayake joined as an academic member of the Institute of Indigenous Medicine, University of Colombo in 2008. She completed her postgraduate studies; Master of Phillosophy (MPhil) in 2010. She was accredited as a teacher in Higher Education by Staff Educational Development Association (SEDA), United Kingdom in 2009 and holds a Postgraduate Diploma in Counseling from Faculty of Education, University of Colombo. She obtained her PhD at Faculty of Graduate Studies, University of Colombo in 2024. Further she trained in Traditional Chinese Medicine Practical Technology at Xiyuan Hospital of the Chinese Academy of Chinese Medical Sciences, Beijing, China in 2023.
In her research approaches, she has presented several research papers on traditional medicine, Ayurveda Pharmaceuticals, pharmacology and therapeutics, drug standardization and medicinal plants at national and international conferences.