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Virginia Berridge
FRHistS HonFRCP FAcSS
Berridge in October 2004
Born1946 (age 78–79)
NationalityBritish

Virginia Berridge, FRHistS, HonFRCP, FAcSS (born 1946) is a British academic historian and public health expert. She is a Professor of History and Director of the Centre for History in Public Health at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine. Berridge is a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences and the Royal Historical Society, and honorary Fellow of the Faculty of Public Health and of the Royal College of Physicians.

Life

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Berridge has a first degree and a PhD in history, both from the University of London, and is a Professor of History and Director of the Centre for History in Public Health at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine.[1][2] She worked in the Addiction Research Unit of the Institute of Psychiatry from 1974 to 1979 and at the Economic and Social Research Council from 1986–1987.[1] From 1979 to 88 she was at the Institute of Historical Research, University of London.[1][3]

Berridge is an academic historian and public health expert.[4][5] She researches the history of health and health policy.[6] Recently she has published on the harm of e-cigarrettes and the policies around their availability and use.[7] She is Deputy Chair of the London Drugs Commission, which is reporting on cannabis use for the London Mayor, and has served on the Alcohol Education Research Council.[8][9] Alongside Dr Alastair Reid (Girton College), Professor Simon Szreter, (St John’s College, Cambridge), and Professor Pat Thane (King’s College London), Berridge is a founder of History & Policy, which publishes historical research freely online.[10]

Berridge is a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences, a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society and honorary Fellow of the Faculty of Public Health and of the Royal College of Physicians.[2][11][12]

Selected works

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  • Opium and the People: Opiate Use in Nineteenth-Century England (1987)
  • AIDS in the UK: The Making of Policy, 1981–1994 (1996)
  • Marketing health: Smoking and the discourse of public health, 1945–2000 (2007)
  • Demons: Our Changing Attitudes to Alcohol, Tobacco, and Drugs (2014)[13]
  • Public Health: A Very Short Introduction (2016)
  • The Internationalisation of Tobacco Control, 1950-2010 (2016)
  • Infiltrating history into the public health curriculum (2018)

References

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  1. ^ a b c Virginia Berridge; Daphne Christie; Tilli Tansey, eds. (2006). Public health in the 1980s and 1990s: Decline and rise?. Wellcome Witnesses to Contemporary Medicine. History of Modern Biomedicine Research Group. ISBN 978-0-85484-106-6. OL 11612224M. Wikidata Q29581737.
  2. ^ a b "Virginia Berridge | LSHTM". www.lshtm.ac.uk. Retrieved 11 April 2025.
  3. ^ Demons: Our changing attitudes to alcohol, tobacco, and drugs. Oxford, New York: Oxford University Press. 2014. ISBN 9780199604982.
  4. ^ "Professor Virginia Berridge". FEAD - Film Exchange on Alcohol & Drugs. Archived from the original on 9 February 2016. Retrieved 2 August 2018.
  5. ^ "Virginia Berridge". London School of Tropical Medicine. Retrieved 2 August 2018.
  6. ^ "Virginia Berridge". E-International Relations. Retrieved 11 April 2025.
  7. ^ elementary (3 July 2023). "New book on e-cigarettes from History & Policy co-founder, Virginia Berridge". History & Policy. Retrieved 11 April 2025.
  8. ^ "The E-Cigarette Summit UK, 2024". The E-Cigarette Summit UK, 2024. Retrieved 11 April 2025.
  9. ^ "Professor Virginia Berridge". History & Policy. Retrieved 11 April 2025.
  10. ^ "Who we are". History & Policy. Retrieved 11 April 2025.
  11. ^ Sciences, Academy of Social. "Fellows". Academy of Social Sciences. Retrieved 11 April 2025.
  12. ^ "Current Fellows & Members | RHS". royalhistsoc.org. Retrieved 11 April 2025.
  13. ^ Flanders, Judith (16 December 2013). "Demons by Virginia Berridge, review". The Telegraph. Retrieved 1 August 2018.
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