Public Health
Public health saves more lives than any clinic. Sanitation, epidemiological mapping, tobacco control and mass immunisation were argued into existence by the reformers indexed here, often against fierce commercial resistance.
6 indexed lives · 0 Nobel laureates · 3 countries
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Ancel Keys
1904 – 2004The Seven Countries Study put diet at the centre of cardiovascular prevention.
United States·Nutrition · Public Health
Zhu Lian
1909 – 1978Wrote New Acupuncture (1951) and led the state institute that standardised the practice.
China·Traditional Chinese Medicine · Public Health
Denis Burkitt
1911 – 1993Linked dietary fibre to Western disease patterns after describing Burkitt's lymphoma in Uganda.
Ireland·Public Health · Nutrition
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