Virginia Berridge

Virginia Berridge is Professor of History at The London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine. She is head of the Centre for History in Public Health, and headed the Wellcome Trust-funded 'Science speaks to policy' programme of research of which this book is an outgrowth. Her publications are on recent public health; drug, alcohol and smoking policy; the history of HIV/AIDS; and the relationship between research and policy.

Virginia Berridge is Professor of History at The London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine. She is head of the Centre for History in Public Health, and headed the Wellcome Trust-funded 'Science speaks to policy' programme of research of which this book is an outgrowth. Her publications are on recent public health; drug, alcohol and smoking policy; the history of HIV/AIDS; and the relationship between research and policy. See less