Academic wins prestigious book award

Posted by Admin on 11 September 2019

Dóra receives her prize.

Dr Dóra Vargha celebrated last month as her book Polio Across The Iron Curtain was announced as the winner of the prestigious European Association for the History of Medicine and Health Book Award 2019.

The prize is awarded to the best book on the history of medicine from the preceding two years, and is presented at the biannual EAHMH conference which took place this year in Birmingham. Prof. Jonathan Reinarz, president of the EAHMH, presented the award to Dóra during the conference (photo).

The book is Open Access with the support of the Wellcome Trust, and was published in 2018 by Cambridge University Press in the Global Health Histories series.

Congratulations, Dóra!!