Author archives: The John Snow Society
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
D.A.Henderson, MD, MPH, Professor of Medicine, University of Pittsburgh, Honorary Fellow, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland
2006 Dr Jamie Bartram: Drinking Water- Where Science Meets Policy
The Pumphandle lectures for the John Snow Society have covered a wide range of topics on the prevention or understanding of disease, but few have been so pertinent to the pumphandle theme as that chosen by Dr Jamie Bartram, Coordinator of Public Health and Environment at the World Health Organization’s headquarters in Geneva. Dr Bartram …
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2005 Dr Tore Godal: Everything is Impossible until it has been done
Dr Tore Godal is Ex-Director of the WHO Special Programme for Research and Training in Tropical Diseases (TDR) and Executive Director of the Global Alliance for Vaccines and Immunization (GAVI) Pictures from round the world:
2004 Dr Alain Moren: Challenges for field epidemiology training in a widening Europe
The Pumphandle Lecture series always features a great lecturer and the speaker for the sesquicentenary, Dr Moren, was very appropriate, demonstrating that epidemiology is now a pan-European expertise. Training is essential to maintain and improve the skills of future epidemiologists and EPIET provides courses and training attachments across the “island and the continent” of Europe. …
2003 Dr Mike Ryan: Epidemics in the 21st Century, the lesson of SARS
On 22 September 2003, Dr Mike Ryan gave the 11th annual John Snow Society Pumphandle Lecture at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine. In the last half of the 20th century, following the development of modern antibiotics and vaccines, there were confident predictions that infectious disease would soon be vanquished – and no …
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