Prof Michael Eddleston
Director
Michael Eddleston is Professor of Clinical Toxicology at the University of Edinburgh. He has worked on pesticide suicides for thirty years, focusing in particular on Sri Lanka. His research has covered the natural history of pesticide poisoning (ie. what happens after people ingest various pesticides), the medical treatment of poisoned patients, and strategies for prevention of deaths from pesticide suicides. He has published extensively on the subject, interacted with the United Nations to bring it to the forefront of global public health, and built up a group of world-leading academic researchers who are passionate about the subject.
Articles
Selected Publications
Noghrehchi F, Dawson AH, Raubenheimer J, Mohamed F, Gawarammana IB, Eddleston M, Buckley NA. Restrictions on Pesticides and Deliberate Self-Poisoning in Sri Lanka. JAMA Network Open. 2024. 1;7(8):e2426209.
Deuster E, Tomenson JA, Mohamed F, Gawarammana I, Buckley NA, Wilks MF, Eddleston M. Dose ingested, vomiting, and outcome in patients ingesting a standard paraquat 20SL formulation. Clin Toxicology. 2023; 61(1):29-38.
Lee YY, Chisholm D, Eddleston M, et al. The cost-effectiveness of banning highly hazardous pesticides to prevent suicides due to pesticide self-ingestion across 14 countries: an economic modelling study. Lancet Global Health 2021, 9: e291-e300.
Buckley NA, Fahim M, Raubenheimer J, Gawarammana IB, Eddleston M, Roberts MS, Dawson AH. Case fatality of agricultural pesticides after self-poisoning in Sri Lanka: a prospective cohort study. Lancet Global Health. 2021; 9(6):e854-e862.
Pearson M, Eddleston M, Konradsen F et al. Effectiveness of household lockable pesticide storage to reduce pesticide self-poisoning in rural Asia: a community-based cluster randomised controlled trial. Lancet 2017, 390: 1863-72.
Knipe DW, Gunnell D, Eddleston M. Preventing deaths from pesticide self-poisoning – learning from Sri Lanka’s success. Lancet Global Health 2017, 5: e651-e652
Dawson AH, Eddleston M, et al. A prospective cohort study of the acute human lethal toxicity of agricultural pesticides – implications for improving regulation and reducing global suicide. PLoS Medicine 2010, 7:e1000357
Eddleston M. Patterns and problems of deliberate self-poisoning in the developing world. Quarterly Journal of Medicine 2000, 93:715-731
Eddleston M, Sheriff MHR, Hawton K. Deliberate self-harm in Sri Lanka – an overlooked tragedy in the developing world. British Medical Journal 1998, 317:133-135
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Queen’s Medical Research Institute
The University of Edinburgh
47 Little France Crescent
Edinburgh
EH16 4TJ