Centre for History in Public Health

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Centre for History in Public Health

The Centre for History in Public Health is at the forefront of historical research into public health and health services. Historical understanding is of central relevance to an understanding of public health in the present - current developments cannot be understood without a knowledge of the past. Centre events both public health and health services.

Centre for History in Public Health

Events in this series

Problematising prophylaxis: Tuberculosis and the Bacillus Calmette-Guérin (BCG) vaccine in American Colonial Philippines

Solidarity medicine: socialism and local roots of primary health care in China, India and Tanzania

‘Biggest Bacteriological Enterprise the World has yet Seen,’ The Punjab Vaccination Campaign and the Mulkowal Tragedy, 1902-1906.

​​Nigeria and the quest for a global antimicrobial resistance surveillance system, ca. 1980s - present

​​Mosquitoes, malaria and health segregation in Freetown Sierra Leone​

Global health and colonial history

New perspectives on charity and the mixed economy of healthcare

​​(Post)colonial worldbuilding, healthcare and diasporic/African repair in and around the door of (no) return ​

​​Empire, race, and medical achievement: A changing dynamic and the Smith-Easmon medical dynasties​

​​A good mother enters the clinic: How Dutch preventive child health care ordered everyday lives, 1900-1940​

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Nigeria and the quest for a global antimicrobial resistance surveillance system, ca. 1980s - present

Mosquitoes, malaria and health segregation in Freetown Sierra Leone

(Post)colonial worldbuilding, healthcare and diasporic/African repair in and around the door of (no) return 

Empire, race, and medical achievement: A changing dynamic and the Smith-Easmon medical dynasties

A good mother enters the clinic: How Dutch preventive child health care ordered everyday lives, 1900-1940