The African Centre for Suicide Prevention and Research (ACSPR) is committed to generating, disseminating, and applying knowledge and skills in suicide prevention through research, training and resource production. 

The African Centre for Suicide Prevention and Research (ACSPR) exists to conduct culturally relevance research on suicide and euthanasia, train professionals and nonprofessionals in suicidology in order to improve the quality of life of young people women and men on the African continent. ACSPR works in close collaboration with clinical services in the department of psychiatry of Mbarara University of Science and Technology and Mbarara Regional Referral hospital. We are interested in integration of suicide assessment in routine patient assessment, knowledge translation, suicide epidemiology and prevention. We do basic research related to the risk factors, assessment, diagnosis, prevention and the treatment of suicidality.

The ACSPR was established in 2016 as a multi-disciplinary university-based research centre in Eastern Africa. The centre is committed to generating, disseminating, and applying knowledge and skills in suicide prevention through research, training and resource production. The Centre aims at developing effective preventive measures of suicide as well as building evidence-based indigenous working models through practitioner-researcher collaboration. It is the ultimate goal of the Centre to contribute to the formulation of social and health policies in dealing with the problem of suicide in Africa.