lisa.scholin@ed.ac.uk

Lisa trained in public health science and research methods and started her career in alcohol policy and spent her early research focused on alcohol use during pregnancy and effective interventions to prevent alcohol-exposed pregnancies, as well as other aspects of alcohol-related harm and policy-related issues. More recently, Lisa worked as a researcher for the Mental Welfare Commission for Scotland where she worked on monitoring the use of mental health and capacity legislation and specific issues related to compulsory psychiatric care, including significantly impaired decision-making as a criterion for compulsory care, ethical challenges to providing remote assessments during Covid-19, and length of short-term detentions. Lisa's current research focuses on data related to pesticide suicide and self-harm, alcohol's role in pesticide self-harm, and commercial determinants of health perspectives to pesticides. She is also exploring communication of health topics, including alcohol use during pregnancy, through news articles and online discussion forums.