Virginia Berridge FRHistS HonFRCP FAcSS
Berridge in October 2004
Born	1946 (age 77–78)
Nationality	British

Virginia Berridge, FRHistS, HonFRCP, FAcSS (born 1946) is a British academic historian and public health expert.^[1][2]

Life

Berridge has a first degree and a PhD in history, both from the University of London, and is a Professor of History and Director of the Centre for History in Public Health at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine.^{[3] [4]}

She worked in the Addiction Research Unit of the Institute of Psychiatry from 1974 to 1979 and at the Economic and Social Research Council from 1986–1987.^[3] From 1979 to 88 she was at the Institute of Historical Research, University of London.^[3][5]

Selected works

• Opium and the People: Opiate Use in Nineteenth-Century England (1987)
• AIDS in the UK: The Making of Policy, 1981–1994 (1996)
• Marketing health: Smoking and the discourse of public health, 1945–2000 (2007)
• Demons: Our Changing Attitudes to Alcohol, Tobacco, and Drugs (2014) ^[6]
• Public Health: A Very Short Introduction (2016)
• The Internationalisation of Tobacco Control, 1950-2010 (2016)
• Infiltrating history into the public health curriculum (2018)