Annual Pumphandle Lecture Series
The John Snow Society Pumphandle Lecture takes place in September each year when members gather to celebrate the memory of Dr John Snow and afterwards hold the annual general meeting of the Society. The lecture is traditionally accompanied by the ceremony of removing and then replacing the pump handle as a reminder of the continuing challenges to public health in water and other fields.
Previous Pumphandle Lectures
- 2012 Tom Frieden
- What pump handles need to be removed to save the most lives in this century?
- 2011 Hans Rosling
- Epidemiology for the Bottom Billion - where there is not even a pump handle to remove!
- 2010 David Nabarro
- Sapiens, Synergy, Solidarite, Success
- 2009 David Heymann
- When Nature turns cook: The epidemiologist's feast
- 2008 Professor Patrick Wall
- Food Safety - Media based or Risk Based controls?
- 2007 D.A. Henderson
- Polio Eradication: a Reconsideration of Strategy
- 2006 Dr Jamie Bartram
- Drinking Water: Where Science Meets Policy
- 2005 Dr Tore Godal
- Everything is Impossible until it has been done
- 2004 Dr Alain Moren
- Challenges for field epidemiology training in a widening Europe
- 2003 Dr Mike Ryan
- Epidemics in the 21st Century: The lesson of SARS
- 2002 Dr David Salisbury
- Managing vaccine adverse effects
- 2001 Professor David Bradley
- John Snow in the world of today: Global and local reflections on drawing water
- 2000 Professor John Oxford
- The search for permafrost and other victims of the 1918 Influenza
- 1999 Professor Chris Bartlett
- Removing the pump handle at an international level
- 1998 Professor Richard J. Evans
- Koch, Pettenkofer and the search for the cause of cholera
- 1997 Professor Hugh Pennington
- E. coli in Scotland: the relevance of John Snow and William Whewell's consilience of induction
- 1996 Professor Richard Feachem
- Would John Snow have joined the World Bank?
- 1995 Dr Sandy Cairncross
- Turning the Worm: The Guinea Worm eradication programme
- 1994 Dr Spence Galbraith
- Dr John Snow - Early Life and Later Triumphs: An exploration of Snow's work from the epidemiological perspective
- 1993 Dr Nick Ward
- Global Polio Eradication: call for action