Royal Institute of Public Health merged in 2008 with the Royal Society for Health to form

Royal Society for Public Health Royal Society for Public Health (RSPH) is an independent, multi-disciplinary charity dedicated to the improvement of the public's health. RSPH helps inform policy and practice, working to educate, empower and support communities and individuals ...

(RSPH).

History

The institute was the amalgamation of a few societies. The Metropolitan Association of Medical Officers of Health was an English society of metropolitan

Medical Officer for Health A medical officer of health, also known as a medical health officer, chief health officer, chief public health officer or district medical officer, is the title commonly used for the senior government official of a health department, usually at a ...

established on 3 April 1856. In 1869 "Metropolitan" was dropped from the title, and in 1873 it became the Society of Medical Officers of Health, and in 1989 it became the Society of Public Health.

Timeline

Presidents

Past presidents include: * John Simon, first presidentMichael Warren
1850-1899
A Chronology of State Medicine, Public Health, Welfare and Related Services in Britain: 1066 - 1999. *

Lawson Soulsby, Baron Soulsby of Swaffham Prior Ernest Jackson Lawson Soulsby, Baron Soulsby of Swaffham Prior (23 June 1926 – 8 May 2017) was a British microbiologist and parasitologist. In 1990 he was made a Conservative life peer and sat in the House of Lords until his retirement in ...

Nora Wattie Nora Wattie (1900–1994) MBChB (Aberdeen), DPH (Cambridge) was a pioneer of social medicine, setting up Glasgow’s internationally renowned ante-natal care service (both before and after the creation of the National Health Service). Throughou ...

Publications

* ''Public Health'' (journal), now owned by

Previous publications

* ''

Journal of State Medicine The ''Journal of Public Health'' is a quarterly peer-reviewed public health journal. It was originally established in 1892 as the ''Journal of State Medicine'' by the Royal Institute of Public Health and has undergone several renames during its h ...

'' * ''

Health & Hygiene Health, according to the World Health Organization, is "a state of complete physical, mental and social well-being and not merely the absence of disease and infirmity".World Health Organization. (2006)''Constitution of the World Health Organiza ...

References

External links

Data for Societies Founded from 1850 to 1859

Archives of the Royal Institute of Public Health and Hygiene at the Wellcome LibraryRoyal Society for Public Health
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