28th September5:30 pm London time Please note that you can join this event in person in the John Snow lecture theatre or you can watch the live broadcast. More information is available on the LSHTM webpage.
Category archives: News
2021 Broadsheet now available to read
We had to wait a year, but the 2021 broadsheet is now available and as always packed with stories from around the world about John Snow and the society. Enjoy the read https://johnsnowsociety.org/files/2021/08/Broad-Sheet-2021-final.pdf
2021 Tony Fauci – COVID-19: Lessons Learned and Remaining Challenges
The John Snow Society Annual Pumphandle Lecture was given by Dr Anthony Fauci, Director of the U.S. National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID). The recording can be found here
The history of discovery of Vibrio cholerae
“The Greatest Missed Microscopical Opportunity?” by Paul Bingham was recently published by the Postal Microscopical Society. It is an excellent account of the discovery of Vibrio cholerae including the works of John Snow.
2020 Broadsheet now available
We had to wait a year, but the 2020 broadsheet is now available and as always packed with stories from around the world about John Snow and the society. Enjoy the read
2020 Pumphandle lecture
Our biggest event of the year is coming up. We are excited to let you know that this year’s pumphandle lecture will be given John Nkengasong on 10th September 3pm UK time!The lecture will be held remotely – please register here.
2019 Pumphandle Lecture & Broadsheet
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 …
2018 Broadsheet now available to read
This year’s Broadsheet is now available.
2018 Pumphandle Lecture
The 2018 Pumphandle Lecture will be held at 17.30 on Thursday 6th September 2018 at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine. The Society is proud to annouce that Dr Joanne Liu, International President of Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF)/Doctors Without Borders, will be speaking at the 2018 Pumphandle Lecture on ‘The Cost of Fear: humanitarian …
The return of the pump
Many members will know that the replica pump which was placed by Westminster Council at the corner of Poland and Broadwick Streets in 1992, to commemorate our hero’s work, was removed in 2015 because of construction. The Society has worked tirelessly over the past three years to ensure its return – and to the historically …