Centre for History in Public Health (CHiPH)
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CHiPH is part of @LSHTM and at the forefront of historical research into public health and health services
15-17 Tavistock Place, London
Joined June 2011
Details of some of our upcoming seminars are now available - topics including the UK postcode lottery, Aboriginal health activism, HIV screening and vaccination in the American Colonial Philippines! Get those dates in your diary: https://t.co/DPFPQ0FrMF
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Join us on Thursday online or in person for our next seminar, with Kalman Rotstein: 'The Punjab Vaccination Campaign and the Mulkowal Tragedy, 1902-1906': 📅Thursday 21st November ⏰12.45-14.00 UK time 📍LSHTM room G24 and online https://t.co/zgpXLL8GVl
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The seminar paper discusses the plague vaccines and serums of the scientist Haffkine in the late 1890s. It then turns to a campaign disaster in India where deaths from a contaminated vaccine led to
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Join us tomorrow for our lunchtime seminar, with Adedamola Adetiba of @MancHSTM: 'Nigeria and the quest for a global antimicrobial resistance surveillance system' 📅Thurs 14 Nov ⏰12.45-14.00 📍LSHTM room LG8 and online ⬇️all welcome, info below! https://t.co/4sVIcsyWmZ
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Since the 1980s the World Health Organisation (WHO) has promoted Antimicrobial Resistance (AMR) surveillance programmes. These have been in form of the Gonococcal Antimicrobial Surveillance Programme
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"HIV and AIDS Archives: collections, research and responses" A free online workshop from @UkNatArchives featuring our centre founder Virginia Berridge 📅 3 December ⬇️ register via the link! https://t.co/z02xThmrWx
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A free online symposium bringing together researchers and practitioners who have worked with HIV and AIDS related collections.
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In Part 3 of the Hospital Charity takeover, @Han_Blythe analyses United Sheffield Hospitals’ annual reports and explores the boundary between charity and state-funded healthcare in the first decades of the NHS
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In Part 3 of the Hospital Charity takeover, Hannah Blythe analyses United Sheffield Hospitals’ annual reports and explores the boundary between charity and state-funded healthcare in the first deca…
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The 2024 Outstanding Book Award goes to Janet Weston for Looking After Miss Alexander from @McGillQueensUP, a beautifully written micro-history which elucidates important ideas about care, intellectual disability and the role of the historian in these stories. Congrats Janet!
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This week the Border Crossings project (featuring Centre members Martin Gorsky and @Han_Blythe, & former member @agnesjuliet) is hosting a takeover of @the_polyphony on the gift relationship in healthcare charity! First blog now live:
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Ellen Stewart and Francesca Vaghi introduce a 6-part takeover on the culture and consequences of charitable giving in healthcare
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Seminar this week: all welcome! Dr Lioba Hirsch, "(Post)colonial worldbuilding, healthcare and diasporic/African repair in and around the door of (no) return" 📅Thur 17 Oct, 12.45 UK time 📍LG81 Keppel Street & online ⬇️Follow the link below for info! https://t.co/y9o20KSiDm
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There are maps to the door of no return and there are maps to Connaught Hospital in Freetown, Sierra Leone. They are not alike. The former are metaphorical and exist mainly in our Black diasporic
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Join us on Thursday for the first seminar in our series on medical history in Africa: 'Empire, race, and medical achievement: the Smith-Easmon medical dynasties' 📅Thurs October 11 ⌚12.45-14.00 UK 📍LG81, LSHTM Keppel St (and online) ⬇️Details via link https://t.co/malMq0Myu4
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@mcgillu On Oct 17th Join Prof Weston's talk on how+why road safety came to be seen as a ‘public health’ issue in Britain, &the battle that took place concerning the morality of legislating about seatbelts, helmets, &drunk-driving. @RGHLMcGill @MaxBellSchool
https://t.co/WqoNS1IcD8
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Today! Join us at lunchtime in London or online
Our first seminar of the new academic year! From Historical Atrocities to Contemporary AI Ethics: Historically Informed Perspectives on Responsibility in Health Care 📅Thursday 3rd October ⌚12.45-14.00 UK time 📍LG81, LSHTM Keppel Street (and online) https://t.co/51ClNj4oDd
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Our first seminar of the new academic year! From Historical Atrocities to Contemporary AI Ethics: Historically Informed Perspectives on Responsibility in Health Care 📅Thursday 3rd October ⌚12.45-14.00 UK time 📍LG81, LSHTM Keppel Street (and online) https://t.co/51ClNj4oDd
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Understanding, developing, and advocating for the arts and humanities within public health research, training, and practice
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Congratulations to our former centre member Lioba on the publication of her book, and if you're in Edinburgh this week, get yourself along to the launch!
Hi #Edinburgh folks! I’m doing a book launch with the exceptional @katuchabento at @Lighthousebks on Thursday 19/09/24 at 7 o’clock! Would be lovely to see you there! https://t.co/1RZJ2GuSvW
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*Call for mid-career researchers interested in applying for prestigious fellowships* We'd love to hear from historians of global health, and humanities researchers working on health inequalities or/and planetary health 📅Deadline 30 Sept ⬇️⬇️⬇️ https://t.co/jmG6zA7E4H
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Call for mid-career researchers interested in applying for prestigious fellowships | LSHTM
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*Call for mid-career researchers interested in applying for prestigious fellowships* We'd love to hear from historians of global health, and humanities researchers working on health inequalities or/and planetary health 📅Deadline 30 Sept ⬇️⬇️⬇️ https://t.co/jmG6zA7E4H
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Call for mid-career researchers interested in applying for prestigious fellowships | LSHTM
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"New perspectives on charity and the mixed economy of healthcare." Join us for this 2 day conference in October! All welcome but registration required: ⬇️ https://t.co/Lfvjtuya6D
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The collaborative project entitled ‘Border Crossings: Charity, the State and Health Care Since 1948’ was funded by Wellcome and run by PI Professor John Mohan (University of Birmingham), and CIs
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The first in a mini-series of blogs on the theme Public Health Humanities, British historian and Senior Research Associate at the University of Bristol Jessica Hammett discusses menopause and the MenoMakers craft group https://t.co/kcX1eOELn4
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Delighted to report that Centre director Janet Weston received the @law_soc J Willard Hurst Prize Honorable Mention, for her book 'Looking after Miss Alexander' - out now with @McGillQueensUP! #histmed #legalhistory #twitterstorians
Congratulations to our 2024 LSA Award Winners! Attending the LSA Annual Meeting? Celebrate honorees at the Award Ceremony on Thursday, June 6th, 4:45pm - 6:30pm at Hyatt Regency Denver room Centennial E-H. #LSA2024 View the full list of winners here: https://t.co/VFzAW4MqVy
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