Centre for History in Public Health

Enhancement Award, "Enhancing History in Public Health, the Centre for History in Public Health at the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine".

Funder:	Wellcome Trust
Date:	2004-2012
Staff:	Virginia Berridge and Martin Gorsky
Description:	Infrastructure funding for administration, teaching development., public engagement and workshops, conferences and seminars.

Constructing the Patient Consumer: Patient Groups and Health Consumerism, 1960-1991. University Award

Funder:	Wellcome Trust
Date:	2007-2012
Staff:	Virginia Berridge, Alex Mold
Description:	This project focuses on the role played by patient groups in the construction of the patient as a consumer from the 1960s to the 1990s. It will examine the activities of different organisations that claimed to act on behalf of the patient.

Public Health and Health Services in Post War Britain: Constructing the History, Connecting with Policy

Funder:	Wellcome Trust
Date:	1st October 2009 - 30th September 2014
Staff:	Professor Virginia Berridge, Dr Martin Gorsky, Dr Alex Mold, Professor Nicholas Mays, and Mrs Victoria Cranna
Description:	This award supports a number of projects on the post-war history of public health and health services. It also funds a range of activities including public health walks, research seminars, conferences and public engagement

Addictions and Lifestyles in Contemporary Europe - Reframing Addictions

Funder:	EU - FP7 Humanities
Date:	April 2011 - March 2016
Staff:	Professor Virginia Berridge and Dr Alex Mold
Description:	This project is investigating the history of addiction across several different European countries. Specific research is also being carried out on the history of addiction in the UK

Medical History and Humanities Fellowship. African Historical Demography Using Parish Registers

Funder:	Wellcome Trust
Date:	October 2011 - September 2014
Staff:	Dr Sarah Walters
Description:	This project will see the digitisation of the parish registers of baptisms, marriages and burials from five parishes in five countries in Africa established from the late nineteenth century. A relational database will be produced from the linked data and trends in fertility, marriage, mortality and migration will be estimated. Qualitative sources such as missionary records and oral history will also be used to write the micro-demographic history of these parishes.

Metropolitan Medical Officers: Local Leadership, Democracy and Shaping Environments for Health in London, 1919 - 1939

Funder:	Wellcome Trust
Date:	October 2012 - September 2014
Staff:	Dr Jane Seymour
Description:	This project is funded by the Wellcome Library, which intends to digitise the entire extant run of annual reports of Medical Officers of Health (MOsH) from 1872 to 1974, starting with London. This project, which focuses on the capital in the interwar period, utilises the digitised archive to interrogate these texts in ways not previously possible. I will be examining the role of MOsH in leading local public health work, as well as their interest and success in combatting environmental and economic causes of ill-health, and the extent to which they were engaged in and supported or frustrated by local democratic processes.

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