Walter W. Holland Explained

Walter Werner Holland
Birth Date:1929 3, df=yes
Birth Place:Teplice-Sanov, Czechoslovakia
Death Place:London
Citizenship:British
Occupation:Epidemiologist
Alma Mater:St Thomas's Hospital Medical School
Discipline:Epidemiology
Workplaces:St Thomas's Hospital Medical School

Walter Werner Holland (5 March 1929 – 9 February 2018[1]) was an epidemiologist and public health physician.[2] [3]

Life

Holland was born on 5 March 1929 in Teplice-Sanov, Czechoslovakia, part of the German-speaking Sudetenland, to a Jewish family.[4] His parents were Henry Holland and Hertha Zentner. With the rise of Hitler the family fled to England in 1939, just in time. His grandfather who remained in Czechoslovakia died shortly afterwards but his grandmother was deported to Theresienstadt(Terezín) concentration camp where she perished.[5] He attended Rugby School and then went to St Thomas's Hospital Medical School where he qualified in medicine in 1954, having obtained a first degree in Physiology. He served in the Royal Air Force, attached to the Epidemiological Research Laboratory at Colindale, North London and, after a further appointment as Lecturer to the Department of Medicine at St Thomas's, he was made MRC Clinical Research Fellow in the Department of Epidemiology and Medical Statistics at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine. This was followed by a year in the Department of Epidemiology at Johns Hopkins School of Hygiene and then his return to St Thomas's in 1962 and his appointment to Professor in 1968.

It was at St. Thomas's that Holland developed his academic reputation. He was appointed Chair of Clinical Epidemiology and Social Medicine and established the Department of Community Medicine.[6] He subsequently established the associated Health Services Research Unit with core funding from the Department of Health. He assembled a large staff including epidemiologists, social scientists and statisticians. They conducted a large number of studies on epidemiology of chronic respiratory disease, blood pressure, smoking, air pollution and the application of epidemiologic principles to health services research.[7] [8] He established strong links with fellow public health researchers in the United States, Australia and Japan.[9] He retired as Emeritus Professor of Public Health Medicine in 1994 and was appointed Visiting Professor at London School of Economics.[10]

Work

Holland has had a very wide contribution to the development of epidemiology and public health. His groundbreaking paper on validation of medical screening procedures, published jointly with fellow epidemiologist Archie Cochrane in 1971, became a classic in the field.[11]

Legacy

The London School of Economics established two prizes in his honour. These are the Walter Holland Prize for Best Dissertation and the Walter Holland Prize for Best Overall Performance which are awarded annually to MSc Global Health Policy students.[12]

Some publications

Books

Articles

Awards

Interviews

Notes and References

  1. Web site: https://academic.oup.com/ije/article/47/2/677/4982103 . 2024-07-18 . academic.oup.com.
  2. Web site: Professor Walter Holland (1929–2018). 14 February 2018. London School of Economics. 21 February 2018.
  3. Web site: Walter Holland . London School of Economics . 10 January 2024.
  4. Chinn . Susan . Walter Werner Holland, 1929–2018 . Journal of the Royal Statistical Society Series A: Statistics in Society. 2018 . 181 . 3 . 911–912 . 10.1111/rssa.12371.
  5. Oral history – Walter Holland, Journal of Public Health Medicine, 26(2), 121–129
  6. Book: British Clinical Epidemiology and Walter Holland. 28 November 2017. 9780520243163. Daly. Jeanne. 11 May 2005. University of California Press .
  7. Book: Evidence-Based Medicine and the Search for a Science of Clinical Care. 5 September 2018. 9780520243163. Daly. Jeanne. 11 May 2005. University of California Press .
  8. Walter Werner Holland: pioneer of European public health. 2018. 10.1136/bmj.k1032. 12 October 2018. McKee. Martin. Burney. Peter. BMJ. 360. k1032. 10044/1/58717. 79617295. free.
  9. Memories of Dr Walter Werner Holland, Journal of Epidemiology 2018. Journal of Epidemiology. 28. 9. 404–405. 6111107. 2018. Aoki. K.. Yanagawa. H.. Kodama. K.. Hashimoto. T.. 10.2188/jea.JE20180157.
  10. Web site: Professor Walter Holland. 3 December 2016.
  11. Cochrane . AL . Holland . WW . Validation of screening procedures . British Medical Bulletin . 1971 . 27 . 3–8 . 5100948 . 1. 10.1093/oxfordjournals.bmb.a070810 .
  12. Web site: The Walter Holland Fund . London School of Economics . 10 January 2024.

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