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From: alex scott-samuel [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
Sent: 31 October 2009 11:40
Subject: Jerry Morris has died
From: Anne Mills 10/28/2009 5:53 pm >>>
Colleagues will be saddened to hear of the death of Jerry Morris today
at the age of 99 years.
Jerry was Emeritus Professor of Public Health. He came to the School in
1967 bringing with him the MRC's Social Medicine Unit, established in
1948 initially at the Central Middlesex Hospital. During the 1950s the
Unit published pioneering papers on infant mortality and the influence
of physical exercise on coronary heart disease. Its later work in the
late 60s and early 70s was much concerned with cardiovascular disease.
In Uses of Epidemiology (1957) he wrote a pioneering textbook with a
blueprint for chronic disease epidemiology.
Jerry Morris' association with the social scientists Richard Titmuss and
Brian Abel Smith, both at the London School of Economics, was important
in the formation of health policy under the UK's Labour governments of
the 1960s. Morris was the architect of the new community physician,
responsible for community diagnosis and intended to be the linchpin of
the National Health Service in the UK. At LSHTM, the MSc in Community
Medicine was established to train the new public health physician. He
also played a central role in the formation of the Faculty of Community
Medicine ( now Public Health)
Jerry Morris was a member of many significant postwar health committees,
from the first Royal College of Physicians committee on smoking and air
pollution in the 1950s to the Black committee on inequalities in health
in 1979. His most recent work was on the minimum income required for
healthy living. Until very recently, he continued as an active member of
staff, working at the School several days each week.
His funeral will be at Golders Green crematorium on Wednesday 4 November
at 11.30 a.m. Those who would like to attend should e mail
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Anne
Professor Anne Mills
Head, Department of Public Health and Policy
http://www.lshtm.ac.uk/php/
Director, Health Economics and Financing Programme
www.hefp.lshtm.ac.uk
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