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Guerrilla public health

From safe-use guides to needle exchange schemes, Harry Shapiro reflects on 40 years of drug harm reduction in the UK.

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Picturing mental health

Ron Hampshire created artworks while resident at Netherne psychiatric hospital. What can we learn from them?

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The family food of a kebab van man

Melek Erdal celebrates the physical and mental resilience of her father Yusuf, forged by isolation and dislocation, and reinforced by the distinctive cuisine of his home country, Turkey.

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How the mental health system fails Black people

Accessing mental healthcare as a Black woman can be a challenging experience. Rianna Walcott shares her story, alongside those of three other women, to reveal the barriers she faced.

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  • League ot Nation's course for foreign health officers, 1924.
  • Portrait of A.B. Hill, 1854-1932. President of the Society of Medical Officers of Health, 1911-1912. Photograph in the possession of the Society of Medical Officers of Health.
  • Portrait of W.G. Savage. President of the Society of Medical Officers of Health.
  • Portrait of Edward Seaton; president of the Society of Medical Officers of Health, 1897-1898
  • Sir James Barr, Photograph in the possession of the Society of Medical Officers of Health.
  • F. Vacher FRCS, MRCP; President of the Society of Medical Officers of Health 1895-1896.
  • Portrait of George F. Buchan, whilst President of the Society of Medical Officers of Health 1925-1926
  • Portrait of George F. Buchan, whilst President of the Society of Medical Officers of Health 1929-1930
  • Association of County Medical Officers of Health of England and Wales: members of the association, 1952. Photograph, 1952.
  • Photograph of Professor of Kenwood. President of the Society of Medical Officers of Health, 1918-1919, 1919-1920.
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