As announced today in the 2019 Broadsheet, the 2019 Pumphandle Lecture will be held at 17.30 on Wednesday 4th September 2019 at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine.

The lecture will be given by Eliza Manningham-Buller, Chair of The Wellcome Trust and Co-President of Chatham House, and ex-Director General of MI5. She will be speaking on ‘Promoting medical science in an age of scepticism’. The lecture will start at 5.30pm on Wednesday 4th September 2019, in the John Snow Lecture Theatre at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine.

This is an invitation-only event open to John Snow Society members. Please register in advance herePlease do not share event details on social media or via other channels until after the event.

The lecture will be followed by the Society’s Annual General Meeting, held in the John Snow Public House (at the corner of Broadwick and Lexington Streets, in Soho) to which all are warmly invited.