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World No Tobacco Day 2023: Grow food not tobacco

By Andre Burbidge · May 31, 2023 · Uncategorised · No comments

31 May 2023 is World No Tobacco day. While much has been written about the harmful effects of using tobacco and public health interventions to combat this, the theme this year moves to the growing of tobacco, hence the slogan “grow food, not tobacco”, a theme which dovetails with the…

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Book display : Twenty years of the Centre for History in Public Health

By Martyn Post · February 20, 2023 · Archives, Books · No comments

The Library is celebrating twenty years of the Centre for History in Public Health with a book display, highlighting a number of items in the library collection which focus on subjects around health history and public health history.

The Centre was formed in 2003, but has its origins in late…

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No Smoking Day: LSTHM and the link between smoking and lung cancer

By Victoria Cranna · March 11, 2015 · Archives · No comments

March 11th is No Smoking Day and we thought that we would highlight the fact that the link between smoking and lung cancer was made at the School. In 1950, Richard Doll, a member of the MRC Statistical Research Unit based at LSHTM and Austin Bradford Hill, Director of the…

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World Cancer Day

By Victoria Cranna · February 4, 2014 · Archives · No comments

To support World Cancer Day, we thought that we would highlight some of the collections in the Archives that relate to Cancer. Although this was not a core topic that was researched in the early years of the School, there are a number of collections where there is a wealth…

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