A gripping view of our fight against corona
Professor Ashton has deep practical understanding of the science of public health – a discipline invented in Britain – as a former Director of Public Health. In this jargon-free fly-on-the-wall tale he sets the UK government’s measures to deal with COVID-19 from January against two centuries of home-grown knowledge. How do the government’s experts and the UK’s reliance on web-based solutions such as Test&Trace measure up against the past, for example the 2008 Swine ‘Flu epidemic?
About the author
John Ashton is Professor at the University of Liverpool and University London, School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, and Advisor to Bahrain’s COVID-19 Task Force. He was a Regional Director of Public Health, President of the Faculty of Public Health, set up the Liverpool Health Observatory and was a founder of the World Health Organization Healthy Cities. Ashton trained as a doctor at the University of Newcastle Medical School and the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine. As a spectator he triaged the dying and wounded at the Hillsborough Disaster and from the first day spoke out when the fans were blamed, providing his eyewitness account as doctor.
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