Pioneers in public health: lessons from history

The public health movement involved numerous individuals who made the case for change and put new practices into place.

However despite a growing interest in how we understand history to inform current evidence based practice, there is no book focusing on our progressive pioneers in public health and environmental health.

This book seeks to fill that gap. It examines carefully selected public and environmental health pioneers who made a real difference to the UK's health, some with international influence.

Many of these pioneers were criticised in their life-times, yet they had the strength of character to know what they were doing was fundamentally right and persevered, often against many odds.