The Pumphandle Lecture, established in 1993, is an annual lecture held around September to celebrate the removal of the Broad Street pump handle that took place in September 1854 during the cholera epidemic in Soho. It is organised by the John Snow Society, named for John Snow, and takes place at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine.
 Broad Street pump and John Snow pub | |
| Founder | Paul Fine |
|---|---|
| Established | 1993 |
| Owner | John Snow Society |
| Location | , London , UK |
Following the lecture the speaker performs a ceremonial removal and replacement of the pump handle and members proceed to the John Snow pub.[1][2][3]
History
editThe Pumphandle Lecture was established in 1993 by the John Snow Society, named for John Snow, to celebrate the removal of the Broad Street pump handle that took place in September 1854 during the cholera epidemic in Soho.[1] It is held every year around September.[4]
The inaugural lecture was delivered by Nick Ward and chaired by Paul Fine.[1]
Lectures
edit| Year | Image | Speaker | Nationality | Title | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1993 | Nick Ward |  United Kingdom |
"Global Polio Eradication – a call for action" | [1] | |
| 1994 | Spence Galbraith | United Kingdom |
"Dr John Snow – Early Life and Later Triumphs" | [5] | |
| 1995 | Sandy Cairncross | United Kingdom |
"Turning the Worm – The Guinea Worm eradication programme" | [6] | |
| 1996 |  |
Richard Feachem | United Kingdom
|
"Would John Snow have joined the world bank?" | [7] |
| 1997 | Hugh Pennington | United Kingdom |
"E. coli in Scotland – the relevance of John Snow and William Whewell’s consilience of induction" | [8] | |
| 1998 |  |
Richard J. Evans | United Kingdom |
"Koch, Pettenkofer and the search for the cause of cholera" | |
| 1999 | Chris Bartlett | United Kingdom |
"Removing the pump handle at an international level" | ||
| 2000 | John Oxford | United Kingdom |
"The search for permafrost and other victims of the 1918 Influenza" | ||
| 2001 | David Bradley | "John Snow in the world of today" | |||
| 2002 | David Salisbury | "Managing vaccine adverse effects" | |||
| 2003 |  |
Mike Ryan |  Ireland |
"Epidemics in the 21st Century, the lesson of SARS" | |
| 2004 | Alain Moren | "Challenges for field epidemiology training in a widening Europe" | |||
| 2005 | Tore Godal | "Everything is Impossible until it has been done" | [9] | ||
| 2006 | Jamie Bartram | United Kingdom |
"Drinking Water - Where Science Meets Policy" | [10] | |
| 2007 |  |
Donald Henderson |  United States |
"Polio Eradication, a reconsideration of strategy" | [11] |
| 2008 | Patrick Wall | Ireland |
"Food Safety – Media based or Risk Based controls?" | ||
| 2009 | David L. Heymann | United States |
"When Nature turns cook – The epidemiologist’s feast" | ||
| 2010 |  |
David Nabarro | United Kingdom |
"Sapiens, Synergy, Solidarite, Success" | [12] |
| 2011 |  |
Hans Rosling |  Sweden |
"Epidemiology for the Bottom Billion – where there is not even a pump handle to remove!" | [13][14] |
| 2012 |  |
Tom Frieden | United States |
"What pump handles need to be removed to save the most lives in this century? | [15] |
| 2013 | Julie Cliff |  Australia |
"From London to Mozambique, from cholera to konzo" | [16] | |
| 2014 |  |
Jeremy Farrar | United Kingdom |
"Medicine and public health: divorced for too long" | [12] |
| 2015 |  |
Atul Gawande | United States |
"On removing the pumphandle: innovation and implementation" | |
| 2016 |  |
Paul B. Spiegel |  Canada |
"The Syrian conflict and its effect on the future of humanitarian response: We need a new pumphandle" | |
| 2017 |  |
Richard Horton | United Kingdom |
"Life and Death in 2100: Health, History and Human Contingency" | |
| 2018 |  |
Joanne Liu | Canada |
"The Cost of Fear: Humanitarian Crises in the Age of Anxiety" | |
| 2019 |  |
Eliza Manningham-Buller | United Kingdom |
"Promoting Medical Science in an Age of Scepticism" | |
| 2020 |  |
John Nkengasong |  Cameroon
|
"Africa CDC: A New Public Health Order" | [12] |
| 2021 |  |
Anthony Fauci | United States |
"COVID-19: Lessons Learned and Remaining Challenges" | [12] |
| 2022 |  |
Andrew Haines | United Kingdom |
"The imperative of climate action for health" | |
| 2023 |  |
Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala |  Nigeria
|
"Global health equity and the role of trade" | [12][17] |
| 2024 | 
|
Soumya Swaminathan |  India
|
“Pandemics, Climate Change and the Role of Science” | [18] |
References
edit- ^ a b c d "1993 Dr Nick Ward: Global Polio Eradication – a call for action". The John Snow Society. 9 September 1993. Archived from the original on 26 October 2023. Retrieved 26 October 2023.
- ^ "Pumphandle lectures Archives". The John Snow Society. 20 October 2023. Retrieved 25 October 2023.
- ^ Horton, Richard (February 2022). "Offline: A lie at the heart of public health". The Lancet. 399 (10326): 704. doi:10.1016/S0140-6736(22)00312-9. PMID 35183286. S2CID 246906609.
- ^ Ramsay, Michael A. E. (January 2006). "John Snow, MD: anaesthetist to the Queen of England and pioneer epidemiologist". Proceedings (Baylor University. Medical Center). 19 (1): 24–28. doi:10.1080/08998280.2006.11928120. ISSN 0899-8280. PMC 1325279. PMID 16424928.
- ^ Stanwell-Smith, Rosalind (December 2003). "Cholera, Chloroform, and the Science of Medicine: a Life of John Snow". Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine. 96 (12): 612–613. ISSN 0141-0768. PMC 539667.
- ^ "1995 Dr Sandy Cairncross: Turning the Worm – The Guinea Worm eradication programme". The John Snow Society. 9 September 1995. Retrieved 28 October 2023.
- ^ Communicable Disease Report: CDR weekly. PHLS Communicable Disease Surveillance Centre. 1996. p. 314.
- ^ Communicable Disease Report: CDR weekly. PHLS Communicable Disease Surveillance Centre. 1997. p. 286.
- ^ Parslow, Graham R. (May 2006). "Websites of note". Biochemistry and Molecular Biology Education. 34 (3): 232–234. doi:10.1002/bmb.2006.49403403232. ISSN 1470-8175. PMID 21638683. S2CID 39499985.
- ^ "Jamie Bartram (CV)" (PDF). sph.unc.edu. Retrieved 18 November 2023.
- ^ "2007 D A Henderson: Polio Eradication, a reconsideration of strategy". The John Snow Society. 9 September 2007. Retrieved 18 August 2024.
- ^ a b c d e Okonjo-Iweala, DG. "Global Health Equity and the Role of Trade". www.wto.org. World Trade Organization. Retrieved 18 November 2023.
- ^ Schneider, Dona; Lilienfeld, David E.; Lilienfeld, Abraham M. (2015). "Part II. Descriptive studies". Lilienfeld's Foundations of Epidemiology (4th ed.). Oxford University Press. p. 72. ISBN 978-0-19-537767-5.
- ^ "Pumphandle Lecture". epimonitor.net. Retrieved 26 October 2023.
- ^ Cahill, Anne-Taylor (1 January 2018). "Dr. Snow and the Blue Death". Nineteenth Century. 38 (2).
- ^ "John Snow Society Pumphandle lecture and AGM 2013". www.rsph.org.uk. Retrieved 27 October 2023.
- ^ "Pumphandle Lecture 2023: Dr Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala | LSHTM". www.lshtm.ac.uk. 31 October 2023. Archived from the original on 28 October 2023. Retrieved 28 October 2023.
- ^ "2024 Broadsheet now available to read". The John Snow Society. 15 August 2024. Retrieved 19 August 2024.