Tina Cooper

Christine Elizabeth "Tina" Cooper

OBE in 1967 for her services to children's health in Sierra Leone

, which included establishing a national immunisation programme.

Early life

Tina Cooper was born on 21 July 1918 in

MB BCh in 1945.^[1]

Career

Cooper began her medical career at London's

Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians in the same year.^[2]

Cooper was interested in a family-oriented approach to paediatrics, believing that children's health relied strongly upon environmental and parental influences.

Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Cooper was "one of the first child specialists in Britain to recognise the prevalence, and the physical, psychological, and sexual nature, of child abuse".^[1] In 1979 she co-founded the British Association for the Study and Prevention of Child Abuse and Neglect (now the Association of Child Protection Professionals), subsequently serving as its president. She was also a member of an early research group on child abuse that influenced national government policy in the 1970s.^[2]

Death

Cooper retired in 1983 and died from cancer on 1 September 1986 in Gosforth, Newcastle.^[1]

References

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doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/60895. (Subscription or UK public library membership
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^ ^a ^b ^c ^d Parkin, JM. "Christine Elizabeth Cooper". Munk's Roll Volume VIII. Royal College of Physicians. Retrieved 7 November 2017.

[odb-1] 
doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/60895. (Subscription or UK public library membership
required.)

[munks-2] Parkin, JM. "Christine Elizabeth Cooper". Munk's Roll Volume VIII. Royal College of Physicians. Retrieved 7 November 2017.

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