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Centre for Pesticide Suicide Prevention
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Working to reduce the number of pesticide suicides worldwide. A philanthropically funded research and policy initiative at the University of Edinburgh. www.centrepsp.org
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NEW WEBINAR: Living Systems in Recovery. Unpoisoning Ourselves & the Earth.
📅 Thursday, 27 November
⏰ 18:00–19:15 (SAST)
💻 Online via Zoom - Register to join: edin.ac/4adeuXX

This webinar will explore the impact of pesticides on South Africa's soil, food systems & collective health.

#PublicHealth
NEW WEBINAR: Living Systems in Recovery. Unpoisoning Ourselves & the Earth. 📅 Thursday, 27 November ⏰ 18:00–19:15 (SAST) 💻 Online via Zoom - Register to join: https://edin.ac/4adeuXX This webinar will explore the impact of pesticides on South Africa's soil, food systems & collective health. #PublicHealth
November 25, 2025 at 8:22 AM
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NEW BLOG: What if removing dangerous pesticides could save lives? In this blog, Dr Dilli Ram Sharma discusses Nepal’s ban on highly hazardous pesticides, its potential impact in rural communities and why this policy matters.

Read more: 👉 edin.ac/4o1BegV

#PublicHealth #PesticideRegulation
What if removing dangerous pesticides could save lives? Nepal’s ban on highly hazardous pesticides may reduce suicide deaths and reshape farming and mental health in rural areas. Dr. Dilli Ram Sharma explores why this policy matters. 👉 https://edin.ac/4o1BegV
November 20, 2025 at 10:54 AM
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Our film A.T.M - Any Time Money - has been officially selected for two film festivals: Nature Without Borders and the Green Screen Environmental Film Festival! 🌱

🎥 Watch the trailer here: edin.ac/3EqvIUA
📰 Read more: edin.ac/49QrjY6

#ATMFilm #SustainableAgriculture #ClimateAction
Official Trailer: A.T.M - Any Time Money
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November 13, 2025 at 1:01 PM
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Our film A.T.M – Any Time Money, highlighting the power of natural farming, was screened at the CABI National Stakeholder Meeting in New Delhi. Around 35 participants joined and screening led to insightful discussions among officials, NGOs, academics, and partner organisations.
#NaturalFarming
Our film A.T.M – Any Time Money, highlighting the power of natural farming, was screened at the CABI National Stakeholder Meeting in New Delhi. About 35 participants joined and screening led to insightful discussions among officials, NGOs, academics, and partner organisations. Our film A.T.M – Any Time Money, highlighting the power of natural farming, was screened at the CABI National Stakeholder Meeting in New Delhi. About 35 participants joined and screening led to insightful discussions among officials, NGOs, academics, and partner organisations.
November 10, 2025 at 10:52 AM
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Last week, our team met with the West African Pesticide Registration Committee and FriendsOfTheEarth Togo to discuss phasing out Highly Hazardous Pesticides and promoting safer, sustainable farming across West Africa.
#PublicHealth #SaferFarming #WestAfrica
Last week, our team met with the West African Pesticide Registration Committee and Friends Of The Earth Togo to discuss phasing out Highly Hazardous Pesticides and promoting safer, sustainable farming across West Africa. Last week, our team met with the West African Pesticide Registration Committee and Friends Of The Earth Togo to discuss phasing out Highly Hazardous Pesticides and promoting safer, sustainable farming across West Africa.
November 4, 2025 at 10:48 AM
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OFFICIAL RELEASE: The documentary Unmasking Influence is now publicly available! Explore how powerful industries shape science, policy, and public health - and what must be done to prevent harm.
Watch the full film: edin.ac/43Gd2cC
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#GlobalHealth #UnmaskingInfluence
Unmasking Influence - Full Documentary Film
Unmasking influence is about how commercial actors influence policy and public health. Many of the major public health crises we face today are largely driven by…
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November 3, 2025 at 1:37 PM
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Earlier this week we co-hosted a screening of Unmasking Influence at @edinburgh-uni.bsky.social. The film exposes how commercial actors shape health and policy. Huge thanks to our panellists & attendees for an inspiring discussion!
Film release: 3 Nov
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Earlier this week, we has great screening of Unmasking Influence - a film highlights scutproduced by the Commercial Determinants of Health Group. Earlier this week, we were delighted to host a special screening of Unmasking Influence at the University of Edinburgh’s Adam House Theatre. Over 50 people attended the in person screening and we had a very engaging and informative panel discussion and Q&A. We'd like to thank everyone our pannelists - insert names) who attended and their insights made for an inspiring afternoon of reflection and action. Unmasking Influence unveils how powerful commercial actors shape our daily lives — influencing what we eat, see, and believe — often at the expense of health, equity, and sustainability. The film challenges us to confront these forces and to work collectively toward a fairer, healthier future. The film features Dr Keith Tyrell, CPSP’s Head of Global Strategy (formerly Director, Pesticide Action Network UK) and Dr May van Schalkwyk, Research Fellow at CPSP and co-producer of the film, alongside Professor Mark Petticrew at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine. Our thanks to the SPECTRUM Consortium, the Commercial Determinants Research Group, and all those who continue to expose and challenge harmful commercial determinants of health. The film will be released publicly on 3rd November.
October 24, 2025 at 9:32 AM
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NEW BLOG: How a contaminated children’s cough syrup in Madhya Pradesh killed over 20 children. Mounika Bhukya from CPSP explores how this tragedy exposes a global crisis of toxic contamination in medicines.

📰 Read: Poison in a Bottle: edin.ac/4nfEG7i

#PublicHealth #GlobalHealth #PharmaSafety
New Blog: Poison in a Bottle. Mounika Bhukya explores the 2025 Madhya Pradesh cough syrup tragedy and its connection to the global patter of toxic contamination in children's medicines.
October 22, 2025 at 9:07 AM
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Join us for a special screening of Unmasking Influence.
📅 Weds 22 October 2025 | in person only
🕐 15.00-17.00
📍 Adam House, Basement Theatre, 3 Chambers Street, Edinburgh, EH1 1HR
🎟️ Register: edin.ac/47eYzWh
📽️ Official trailer: edin.ac/46RWjFm

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Film screening: Unmasking Influence
How commercial actors influence policy and public health
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October 16, 2025 at 1:21 PM
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Preventing suicide by pesticide in Nepal. An interesting opinion article by Dr. Rakesh Ghimire featured in the Nepali Times.

📰 Read it here: edin.ac/3TsgXnO

#WorldMentalHealthDay #SuicidePrevention #PublicHealth #PesticidePoisoning #Nepal
October 14, 2025 at 3:09 PM
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NEW GUEST BLOG (5 of 5): Sherry Kochiyo (CEJAD) reflects on how religion in Kenya shapes stigma, silence & #grief around suicide.

Final post in Breaking the Silence series for #WorldMentalHealthDay.

Read here: edin.ac/48TnbWL
Full series and introduction: edin.ac/46P4XnS

#SuicidePrevention
"BREAKING THE SILENCE: INTRODUCING A SERIES OF BLOGS ON STIGMA, SUICIDE AND GRIEF IN KENYA NEW GUEST BLOG ผาง THE UNIVERSITY EDINBURGH Centre for PESTICIDE SUICIDE PREVENTION Suicide, Grief, Stigma and Shame: The inadvertent role religion plays within communities Sherry Kochiyo explores how religionir Kenyan communities influences the way suicide is experienced, understood and responded to.
October 10, 2025 at 8:19 AM
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NEW GUEST BLOG (part 4 of 5): As part of our 5-part blog series reflecting on suicide, #grief & #stigma in Kenyan communities, Mwikali Mwanzia from CEJAD reflects on how family dynamics, social media & health care system gaps affect how suicide is experienced and understood.

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October 7, 2025 at 7:59 AM
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NEW GUEST BLOG (part 3 of 5): As part of our 5-part blog series reflecting on suicide, #grief & #stigma in Kenyan communities, Lynn Ouya from CEJAD shares a personal and thoughtful reflection on how suicide impacts men and women differently.

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#mentalhealth #suicideprevention
October 1, 2025 at 11:19 AM
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@uct-envhealth.bsky.social is offering a 2-year, part-time Master’s in Chemicals Risk Management. The course is ideal for working professionals.

🗓️ Apply by 31 Oct 2025
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#ChemicalRiskManagement #PostgraduateStudy #EnvironmentalHealth
Professional Master's in Chemical Risk Management at the University of Cape Town
September 30, 2025 at 9:36 AM
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Same pesticide. Different countries. Very different outcomes.

New study reveals what happens when countries try to regulate a toxic and controversial pesticide.

📄 Paraquat at 63: What works and what doesn't 👉 edin.ac/4nObuVG

#PublicHealth #PesticidePolicy #ChemicalSafety #ResearchImpact
New Study by the Centre for Pesticide Suicide Prevention, University of Edinburgh, highlights global efforts to regulate deadly pesticide.
September 25, 2025 at 3:10 PM
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Last week, our colleagues supported a stakeholder workshop in Abuja, Nigeria, to support phasing out Highly Hazardous Pesticides that are linked to poisoning, deaths, and food safety concerns.
🙏Thank you to all working to protect lives & promote safer farming.
#PesticideSafety #PublicHealth #Nigeria
September 23, 2025 at 12:21 PM
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NEW BLOG: Hellen Mbaya from the Centre for Pesticide Suicide Prevention shares insights from the #GlobalFrameworkOnChemicals meeting in Uruguay, with a focus on phasing out #highlyhazardouspesticides to reduce poisonings and suicides worldwide.

📝 Read more: edin.ac/4gxMgse
September 18, 2025 at 1:48 PM
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Our film A.T.M (Any Time Money) screens this Sunday, 21 Sept, 2–5pm at @whitechapelgallery.bsky.social, London, as part of the #PowerofFoodFest

Featuring films on food & climate plus discussion with Just FACT mobiliser and artist Hussina Raja.

Info: edin.ac/4n3KSzX
Trailer: youtu.be/TJWSUgdxpH0
Power of Food with Just FACT - Whitechapel Gallery
Join us for a film screening of the documentary Any Time Money and short films by grassroots collectives on food and climate issues as part of the Power of Food Festival across Tower Hamlets from 18 –...
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September 15, 2025 at 10:06 AM
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NEW BLOG SERIES: Breaking the Silence.

On #WorldSuicidePreventionDay, the CEJAD team shares reflections on suicide, grief & stigma in Kenya.

In the first blog, Fredrick Otieno reflects on #HerNameWasSita screening, a new film journey & the need for open conversations.

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September 10, 2025 at 9:48 AM
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We are really pleased to see that Our World in Data highlights pesticide regulation as a powerful but overlooked suicide prevention strategy.

Evidence from Asia shows major impact -without hurting crop yields.

Read more 👉 edin.ac/4g5xtoe

#SuicidePrevention #GlobalHealth #PesticideRegulation
Our World in Data article about how bans on highly toxic pesticides could be an effective way to save lives from suicide
September 5, 2025 at 9:05 AM
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NEW BLOG: The pesticide industry is a powerful commercial actor shaping science and policy, yet it’s been largely overlooked in #PublicHealth.

Dr @maizie333.bsky.social shares key insights from a recent scoping review.

Read more 👉 edin.ac/4mJoo73

#HealthPolicy #Pesticides #CommercialDeterminants
Dr May van Schwalkwyk from the Centre for Pesticide Suicide Prevention and Global Health Policy Unit at the University of Edinburgh shares insights into how the pesticide industry shapes policy and science and its impact on people's health and the planet.
September 4, 2025 at 10:16 AM
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Join @afro.who.int public webinar on
🧠 Preventing Suicide & Self Harm in #Africa: #StartTheConversation
📅 10 Sept 2025
🕚 11AM–1PM (UTC+1)
🌍 Zoom: lnkd.in/gAmTW8aM
🎧 Interpretations in English & French

Topics: limiting toxic pesticides & more 👇

#WSPD #SuicidePrevention #MentalHealthAfrica
August 28, 2025 at 1:17 PM
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Can a dog die from pesticide exposure? Sadly, yes.
In #Brazil, 81% of 250 poisoning cases were dogs & many of them were linked to #pesticides.
On #InternationalDogDay, we’re highlighting how pesticides not only kill people but they also harm the animals we love and care about.
August 26, 2025 at 11:26 AM
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Here are some highlights from the world premiere of A.T.M. – Any Time Money in Hyderabad yesterday. A film on #naturalfarming, #soilhealth & #futurefood systems. There were great panel discussions after the screening.

Read the insights 👉 edin.ac/3IPchXi

#SustainableAgriculture #ClimateAction
World Premiere of A.T.M. Any Time Money in Hyderabad, India on Monday 28th July. Its a film about natural farming, soil health and the future of our food
July 29, 2025 at 3:04 PM
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SAVE THE DATE: World Premiere A.T.M. (Any Time Money) – a new film exploring #naturalfarming, #soilhealth & #FoodFutures.

📅 28 July | 🕓 4–6 PM IST
📍 CESS, Begumpet, Hyderabad
🎟️ Register now: edin.ac/4m2dGrO

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#SustainableAgriculture #ATMFilm #IndiaFarmers #Agroecology
World Premiere Screening: A.T.M - Any Time Money
Join us for a powerful film screening & discussion on natural farming, food, and our future.
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July 21, 2025 at 7:17 AM