Professor Virginia Berridge

Research: Public health history in general; specifically recent epidemics HIV/AIDS ; swine flu 2009 ; policy and science/ expertise ; oral history.

I am currently contributing, with colleagues, to a British Academy report for the Chief Scientist covering health and wellbeing, issues of governance and trust in relation to public health crises in the recent past.

See https://www.lshtm.ac.uk/aboutus/people/berridge.virginia for more information.

Relevant publications include:

AIDS in the UK: the making of policy 1981-1994 (Oxford: Oxford University Press,1996)

Making Health Policy. Networks in research and policy after 1945 (editor and author) (Brill/Rodopi,2005)

Public Health: A Very Short Introduction (Oxford : Oxford University Press,2016)

'The problems of commissioned oral history: the swine flu "crisis" of 2009', Oral History Autumn 2019, 86-94 (with Suzanne Taylor)