Virginia Berridge BA PhD FRHistS Hon FFPH Hon FRCP AcSS

Professor

Room 210 through 209, 15-17 Tavistock Place, London WC1H 9SH, UK

Tel: 020 7927 2269

Fax: 020 7927 2701

Affiliated to: SEHR.

Disciplines: History, Policy analysis.

Research areas: Health policy, Public health history, Research : policy relationship, Science policy, Substance abuse.

Background

Social historian with a first degree and a PhD in history, both from the University of London. I have worked in historical and non-historical settings, at the Addiction Research Unit,(National Addiction Centre) Institute of Psychiatry and the Institute of Historical Research, University of London. I was scientific secretary to the cross department and research council Drug Addiction Research Initiative. I joined the School in 1988 as Co-Director of the AIDS Social History Programme The current School History Centre has developed from that initial programme.

Teaching

I run the History and Health module, which is also available as a short course. I lecture on Principles of Social Research, Health Promotion, Environmental Health Policy, Social Epidemiology and AIDS modules.

Research

My personal research interest is in the changes in post World War Two public health policy. Topic based research includes smoking policy;drug policy (illicit); alcohol policy; the role of the media; and the relationship between evidence, incuding history , and policy. The History Centre which I head works on these issues across a variety of different subject areas.

Selected publications

Berridge, V.; Medicine and the public: the 1962 report of the Royal College of Physicians and the new public health. Bull Hist Med, 2007; 81(1):286-311
Berridge, V.; Multidisciplinary public health: What sort of victory? Public Health, 2007; 121(6):404-8
Berridge, V. The policy response to the smoking and lung cancer connection in the 1950s and 1960s Historical Journal, 2006; 49(4):1185-1209
Berridge, V.; Loughlin, K.; Smoking and the new health education in britain 1950s-1970s. Am J Public Health, 2005; 95(6):956-64
Berridge, V. Marketing Health. Smoking and the discourse of public health in Britain,1945-2000 Oxford University Press (Oxford) 2007 :260
Berridge, V. Making health Policy; networks in research and policy after 1945 Rodopi (Amsterdam) 2005
Berridge,V.; Loughlin,K. Medicine, the market and the mass media; producing health in the twentieth century Routledge
Berridge, V. Changing places: illicit drugs, medicines, tobacco and nicotine in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries in ' Biographies of remedies. Drugs, Medicines and Contraceptives in Dutch and Anglo- American healing cultures ' M. Gijswijt -Hofstra, G. M. Van Heteren, and E. M. Tansey (2002) Rodopi (Amsterdam) 66:11-34

Full publications listing (since 2001)