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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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:
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. …
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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The 10th annual John Snow Society Pumphandle lecture, given by Dr David Salisbury, focused on the public’s concern for vaccine safety; where this fear comes from and how the Department of Health tackles these problems. Dr David Salisbury is a Principal Medical Officer of the Communicable Disease Branch, the Department of Health, London, where he …
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Professor David Bradley gave the ninth in the series of Pumphandle lectures of the John Snow Society on 5 September 2001 at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine (LSHTM). The subject of the lecture was particularly appropriate to the memory of Dr John Snow and to the ‘pumphandle’ theme celebrating interventions and innovations …
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The Influenza story has parallels with the search for the origin of many other infections. Cholera, still present in Europe at the turn of the twentieth century, was the subject of huge debate about its origins. Dr John Snow’s methodical approach in the 1850s solved the mystery of its transmission, laying the way open for …
The following paper from Professor Pennington is based on a lecture he gave for the John Snow Society at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine in September 1997.The following paper from Professor Pennington is based on a lecture he gave for the John Snow Society at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical …
