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Pumphandle lectures
- 2022 Andy Haines – The imperative of climate action for health
- 2021 Tony Fauci – COVID-19: Lessons Learned and Remaining Challenges
- 2020 John Nkengasong – Africa CDC: A New Public Health Order
- 2019 Eliza Manningham-Buller – Promoting Medical Science in an Age of Scepticism
- 2018 Dr Joanne Liu – The Cost of Fear: Humanitarian Crises in the Age of Anxiety
- 2017 Dr Richard Horton – Life and Death in 2100: Health, History and Human Contingency
- 2016 Dr Paul Spiegel – The Syrian conflict and its effect on the future of humanitarian response: We need a new pumphandle
- 2015 Atul Gawande – On removing the pumphandle: innovation and implementation
- 2014 Jeremy Farrar- Medicine and public health: divorced for too long
- 2013 Julie Cliff – From London to Mozambique, from cholera to konzo
- 2013 Bicentenary Event – Epidemiology Yesterday, Today & Tomorrow
- 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
- 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 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
- 1993 Dr Nick Ward: Global Polio Eradication- a call for action