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. …
Category archives: Pumphandle lectures
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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2002 Dr David Salisbury: Managing vaccine adverse effects
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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2001 Professor David Bradley: John Snow in the world of today
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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2000 Professor John Oxford: The search for permafrost and other victims of the 1918 Influenza
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 …
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
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 …
1996 Professor Richard Feachem: Would John Snow have joined the world bank?
1995 Dr Sandy Cairncross: Turning the Worm- The Guinea Worm eradication programme
The Manson Lecture Theatre at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine (LSHTM) was crowded on Wednesday 8th September 1995, with Society members and other interested parties, keen to hear Dr Sandy Cairncross of the LSHTM deliver the third annual Pumphandle Lecture, entitled “Turning the Worm”, on the Guinea Worm eradication programme.The Manson Lecture …
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