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International Journal of Epidemiology 2001;30:944-945
© International Epidemiological Association 2001

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Commentary: Learning in Lambeth— the South-East London Screening Study revisited

Stephen Leeder

Faculty of Medicine, Edward Ford Building, University of Sydney, NSW 2006, Australia. E-mail: steve@medicine.usyd.edu.au

As a callow youth from the colonies, I arrived at the Lambeth offices of St Thomas's Hospital Medical School Department of Clinical Epidemiology on a gloomy April Fool's Day 1974, the very day the NHS transmogrified into one of its (subsequently several) new structures. In Lambeth I discovered what Walter Holland and his colleagues had been up to by way of public health research in recent years. Dedicated research staff of eminence and skill were beavering away on projects to do with respiratory health, the health of schoolchildren and screening. I met the screening research workers, saw the data, and even worked on some of it, if with no great consequence, although for a post-doc it was a superb data set with which to 'play' in company with people who, in those early days of information technology, were at the forefront . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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