Open Philanthropy recommended a grant of £9,871,536 ($12,529,708 at the time of conversion) to the Centre for Pesticide Suicide Prevention (CPSP) for general support. The CPSP aims to reduce deaths from deliberate ingestion of pesticides by identifying the most frequently used pesticides in suicide attempts and advocating for their deregistration. Our global public health policy team believes that banning pesticides with high case fatality rates is likely to lead to a reduction in overall fatalities.
This follows Open Philanthropy’s January 2021 support and falls within its focus area of global public health policy.