Walter W. Holland

Walter Werner Holland (5 March 1929 – 14 February 2018) was an epidemiologist and public health physician.[1]

Life

Holland was born on March 5, 1929 in Teplice-Sanov, Czechoslovakia. His parents were Henry Holland and Hertha Zentner. With the rise of Hitler the family fled to England in 1939.[2]

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[3]. 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.[4][5]

He established strong links with fellow public health researchers in the United States, Australia and Japan.[6].

He was Emeritus Professor of Public Health Medicine and Visiting Professor at London School of Economics.[7]

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.[8]

Key publications

  • 1990 Holland WW, Stewart S. Screening in Health Care. Benefit of Bane? Nuffield Provincial Hospitals Trust, London
  • 1997 Detels R, Holland WW, McEwen J, Omenn GS. Oxford Textbook of Public Health, 3rd edition.
  • 2007 Eds. WW Holland, Olsen J, Florey C du V. The Development of Modern Epidemiology. Oxford University Press, London

Awards

References

  1. ↑ "Professor Walter Holland (1929 – 2018)". lse.ac.uk. 14 February 2018. Retrieved 21 February 2018.
  2. ↑ Oral history - Walter Holland, Journal of Public Health Medicine, 26(2), 121-129
  3. ↑ "British Clinical Epidemiology and Walter Holland". Retrieved 28 November 2017.
  4. ↑ "Evidence-Based Medicine and the Search for a Science of Clinical Care". Retrieved 5 September 2018.
  5. ↑ "Walter Werner Holland: pioneer of European public health". Retrieved 12 October 2018.
  6. ↑ "Memories of Dr Walter Werner Holland, Journal of Epidemiology 2018". Retrieved 5 September 2018.
  7. ↑ "Professor Walter Holland". Retrieved 3 December 2016.
  8. ↑ Cochrane, AL; Holland, WW (1971). "Validation of screening procedures". British Medical Bulletin. 27 (1): 3–8. PMID 5100948.
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