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Professor of History and Health Policy, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine (LSHTM)
Professor Virginia Berridge is a social historian with a first degree and a PhD in history, both from the University of London. She has 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. She was scientific secretary to the cross department and research council Drug Addiction Research Initiative. Professor Berridge joined the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine in 1988 as Co-Director of the AIDS Social History Programme The current School History Centre of which she was first Director, has developed from that initial programme.
Professor Berridge’s 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; HIV/AIDS policy; and the relationship between evidence, incuding history, and policy.