Reducing Inequalities in Child Health: What counts? What works? What matters? - Professor Helen Roberts

In the UK, children from poorer backgrounds are more likely to be born small, born early and die in childhood. Professor Helen Roberts describes something of what counts, what works and what matters in the fight against inequality in child health.

Lyme Disease: Is it safe to walk in the park? - Professor Patricia Nuttall

A consideration of the likelihood of being bitten by a tick carrying the Lyme Disease spirochaete, Borrelia burgdorferi. The disease was first described in the 1970s but it is now recognised in temperate regions across much of the northern hemisphere. The reasons for the seemingly prolific spread of the disease, and the prospects of controlling it, will be discussed. Yes, it is safe to walk in the park, but there are some provisos...

Malaria: Twenty-first Century Threat - Professor Frank Cox

Malaria afflicts some 250 million people of whom over a million, mostly children, die each year. But in 1955 the World Health Organization announced a plan to eradicate it. What went wrong? Will Malaria ever be beaten? What is being done about it?

Twenty-first Century Threats: Tuberculosis - Professor William Ayliffe

A cultural and medical history of TB, and an overview of the threat it poses in our own time.

Progress on the road to curing motor neuron disease - Professor Chris Shaw

Motor Neuron Disease is perhaps one of the cruelest diseases known. At the moment there is no known cure, but researchers are working on one all over the world. What are the latest findings? Could an answer be in sight?

From Jenner to Wakefield: The long shadow of the anti-vaccination movement - Professor Gareth Williams

Professor Gareth Williams examines the legacy of Dr Edward Jenner and the rise of the anti-vaccination movement.

The Changing Body: Health, Nutrition and Development in the Western World since 1700 - Professor Bernard Harris

The causes and consequences of changes in human height, weight and longevity within human recent history for health.

The Politics of Health Reform from a Medieval Perspective - Professor William Ayliffe

Is the NHS medieval? Would this be an insulting claim, to modern hospitals or those of the Middle Ages? Professor William Ayliffe considers modern health reform from the perspective of Tudor medical practice. He provides an overview of some of London's most important mediveval hospitals, including St Bartholomew's, St Thomas' and St Mary's Bethlem.

The Form and Function of Medieval Hospitals - Professor Carole Rawcliffe

An overview of the hospital as it existed in the Middle Ages, with an outlining the place of women and religion in the medical practice of the time and a dispelling the myth that the Tudors lived in unhygienic squalor.

Tudor Health Reform: An Introduction - Professor Tim Connell

A short introduction to a conference on Tudor Health, discussing childbirth, medicine in print, disease and accidents in the Tudor era.

A is for Autism - Dame Stephanie Shirley

A personal talk on autism and its medical and social consequences, on the sufferers and the carers.

At the End of the Line: Students helping students - Dr Ann Conlon

Nightline: The story behind the student-ran volunteer helpline that runs through the night and helps thousands of Londoners every year.

London After Dark: Saving Londoners' Lives - Peter Bradley

A lecture on the work of the London Ambulance Service through the night.

The Tragedy of Easy Problems - Dr Prajwal Ciryam

How can we have proven solutions to the problems of development or global health and yet not sufficiently act on them?

Why We See What We Do - Professor William Ayliffe

How has animal life developed the nature of vision? What are the pros and what are the cons?

Blindness in Children: The Global Perspective - Professor Clare Gilbert

Why do children become blind and what worldwide treatment programs are there to prevent it?

Press Coverage of Mental Health and Suicide - Mary O'Hara

An analysis of the press coverage of mental health issues in Britain and the USA.

The Victorians: Life and Death - Professor Richard J Evans

The Victorian obcession with death: where it came from and why it dissolved.

Diabetes, Hypertension and Vascular Diseases of the Eye - Professor William Ayliffe

What and how our eyes can tell us a lot about our general state of health.

Correction of Optical Defects: From Spectacles to Lasers - Professor William Ayliffe

The history of vision-correction, from Roger Bacon’s glasses of 1266 through to today’s cutting-edge laser technology.