What do we do?
Messagewright is a chemicals policy research and communications consultancy. We deliver analysis which helps organisations acting in the public interest lobby for improvements in chemicals policy, and support companies and policy-makers in understanding the emerging science and policy issues concerning the potential effects of chemicals on health.
If you want to understand, improve or explain chemicals policy, we are here help you do that – by explaining the issues, identifying strategic objectives, assembling the evidence which shows the need for change, and making sure the right people understand and support your cause.
Who are we?
- Messagewright is Paul Whaley and Adam Sawyer, plus our network of freelancers.
Paul has been working with environmental public interest groups for over 7 years, starting as a Greenpeace volunteer in the Czech Republic. He managed communications for the international association Health Care Without Harm Europe for 4 years, including 6 months in Brussels, before beginning work as a freelancer.
Paul specialises in emerging issues around evaluating the effects of chemicals on health, and how this evidence feeds into chemicals policy, and edits Health & Environment, a leading EU blog about chemicals policy.
His main research interest is in how the basic principles of evidence-based medicine, of access to data and use of systematic review, can help resolve controversies about the safety of chemical products.
Adam has run personal fitness and lettings businesses, worked in sales and held a strategy role for a local authority in the UK. His academic background is in biology and he brings exceptional analytical and research skills to our projects.
Happy customers
- Better Value Healthcare: Change management firm selling executive e-learning materials
- ChemSec: Swedish chemicals policy NGO interfacing between regulators, business and charity
- Cancer Prevention and Education Society: Charity promoting environmental health issues
- New Karolinska Solna: Opens in 2016, Europe’s most ambitious green-build hospital project
- Centre for Sustainable Healthcare: Charity working on green issues in healthcare
- SHEBA Database: Knowledge management tool for evidence-based environment policy
Health & Environment
- Máscara de café para o rosto: Deixe seu rosto perfeito com ela! February 18, 2018
- Como estimular a produção de colágeno na pele? Descubra aqui! February 16, 2018
- Qual a importância do colágeno? Saiba aqui porque você precisa dele! January 30, 2018
Chemicals Miniblog
- Increased blood levels of persistent organic pollutants (POP) in obese individuals after weight loss-A reviewMost research in this field, including animal studies, is carried out on a single compound or group of selected compounds, not taking the "cocktail effect" into consideration. This does not reflect the true range of POP to which humans are actually exposed. Few chronic investigations have been published and, in particular, few studies were availabl […]
- Air pollution and cardiovascular mortality with over 25 years follow-up: A combined analysis of two British cohortsAdverse effects of air pollution on cardiovascular disease (CVD) mortality are well established. There are comparatively fewer studies in Europe, and in the UK particularly, than in North America. We examined associations in two British cohorts with >25years of follow-up. Elevated non-significant hazard ratios for CVD mortality were seen with 1991 BS and […]
- Scientists Loved and Loathed by an Agrochemical GiantBut Dr. Cresswell’s initial research for Syngenta did not support the varroosis claims. “We are finding it pretty unlikely that varoosis is responsible for honey bee declines,” he wrote to Syngenta in 2012. An executive wrote back, suggesting that Dr. Cresswell look more narrowly at “loss data” of beehives rather than at broader bee stock trends, “As this ma […]
