Pumphandle Lecture

Pumphandle Lecture
Broad Street pump and John Snow pub
FounderPaul Fine
Established1993
OwnerJohn Snow Society
Location
London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine
,
London
,
UK

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.

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

The 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

List of speakers
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

 United States

"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

 United States

"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

 United States

"Global health equity and the role of trade" [12][17]
2024 Soumya Swaminathan  India “Pandemics, Climate Change and the Role of Science” [18]

References

  1. ^ 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.
  2. ^ "Pumphandle lectures Archives". The John Snow Society. 20 October 2023. Retrieved 25 October 2023.
  3. ^ 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.
  4. ^ 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.
  5. ^ 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.
  6. ^ "1995 Dr Sandy Cairncross: Turning the Worm – The Guinea Worm eradication programme". The John Snow Society. 9 September 1995. Retrieved 28 October 2023.
  7. ^ Communicable Disease Report: CDR weekly. PHLS Communicable Disease Surveillance Centre. 1996. p. 314.
  8. ^ Communicable Disease Report: CDR weekly. PHLS Communicable Disease Surveillance Centre. 1997. p. 286.
  9. ^ 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.
  10. ^ "Jamie Bartram (CV)" (PDF). sph.unc.edu. Retrieved 18 November 2023.
  11. ^ "2007 D A Henderson: Polio Eradication, a reconsideration of strategy". The John Snow Society. 9 September 2007. Retrieved 18 August 2024.
  12. ^ 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.
  13. ^ 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.
  14. ^ "Pumphandle Lecture". epimonitor.net. Retrieved 26 October 2023.
  15. ^ Cahill, Anne-Taylor (1 January 2018). "Dr. Snow and the Blue Death". Nineteenth Century. 38 (2).
  16. ^ "John Snow Society Pumphandle lecture and AGM 2013". www.rsph.org.uk. Retrieved 27 October 2023.
  17. ^ "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.
  18. ^ "2024 Broadsheet now available to read". The John Snow Society. 15 August 2024. Retrieved 19 August 2024.