{{Short description|Annual lecture by the John Snow Society}} {{Infobox institute | name = Pumphandle Lecture | image = Broadwick street pump and pub.jpg | image_size = | image_upright = | image_alt = | caption = Broad Street pump and John Snow pub | latin_name = | other_name = | motto = | mottoeng = | parent = | founder = Paul Fine | established = 1993 | mission = | focus = | director = | chairman = | head_label = | head = | faculty = | adjunct_faculty = | staff = | key_people = | budget = | endowment = | debt = | num_members = | subsidiaries = | owner = John Snow Society | slogan = | former_name = | address = | location = London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine | city = London | state = | province = | country = UK | coordinates = <!-- or |coor= --> | website = | dissolved = | footnotes = }} The '''Pumphandle Lecture''', established in 1993, is an annual lecture held around September to celebrate the removal of the Broad Street pump handle that took place in September 1854 during the cholera epidemic in Soho. It is organised by the John Snow Society, named for John Snow, and takes place at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine.
Following the lecture the speaker performs a ceremonial removal and replacement of the pump handle and members proceed to the John Snow pub.<ref name=PH1993/><ref name=PLA>{{cite web |date=20 October 2023 |title=Pumphandle lectures Archives |url=https://johnsnowsociety.org |access-date=25 October 2023 |website=The John Snow Society}}</ref><ref name=Horton2022>{{cite journal |last1=Horton |first1=Richard |title=Offline: A lie at the heart of public health |journal=The Lancet |date=February 2022 |volume=399 |issue=10326 |pages=704 |doi=10.1016/S0140-6736(22)00312-9 |pmid=35183286 |s2cid=246906609 |url=https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(22)00312-9/fulltext|url-access=subscription }}</ref>
==History== The Pumphandle Lecture was established in 1993 by the John Snow Society, named for John Snow, to celebrate the removal of the Broad Street pump handle that took place in September 1854 during the cholera epidemic in Soho.<ref name=PH1993>{{cite web |date=9 September 1993 |title=1993 Dr Nick Ward: Global Polio Eradication – a call for action |url=https://johnsnowsociety.org/1993/09/09/1993-dr-nick-ward-global-polio-eradication-a-call-for-action/ |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231026111238/https://johnsnowsociety.org/1993/09/09/1993-dr-nick-ward-global-polio-eradication-a-call-for-action/ |archive-date=26 October 2023 |access-date=26 October 2023 |website=The John Snow Society}}</ref> It is held every year around September.<ref name=Ramsay2006>{{cite journal |last1=Ramsay |first1=Michael A. E. |title=John Snow, MD: anaesthetist to the Queen of England and pioneer epidemiologist |journal=Proceedings (Baylor University. Medical Center) |date=January 2006 |volume=19 |issue=1 |pages=24–28 |doi=10.1080/08998280.2006.11928120 |pmid=16424928 |pmc=1325279 |issn=0899-8280}}</ref>
The inaugural lecture was delivered by Nick Ward and chaired by Paul Fine.<ref name=PH1993/> {{clear}}
==Lectures==
{|class="wikitable sortable plainrowheaders" |+List of speakers |- ! Year !! Image!!Speaker !! Nationality!! Title!! Notes |- | 1993 || || Nick Ward ||{{flagu|United Kingdom}} || "Global Polio Eradication – a call for action" ||<ref name=PH1993/> |- | 1994 || || Spence Galbraith ||{{flagu|United Kingdom}} ||"Dr John Snow – Early Life and Later Triumphs" ||<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Stanwell-Smith |first1=Rosalind |title=Cholera, Chloroform, and the Science of Medicine: a Life of John Snow |journal=Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine |date=December 2003 |volume=96 |issue=12 |pages=612–613 |pmc=539667 |issn=0141-0768}}</ref> |- | 1995 || || Sandy Cairncross||{{flagu|United Kingdom}} ||"Turning the Worm – The Guinea Worm eradication programme" ||<ref>{{cite web |title=1995 Dr Sandy Cairncross: Turning the Worm – The Guinea Worm eradication programme |url= https://johnsnowsociety.org/1995/09/09/1995-dr-sandy-cairncross-turning-the-worm-the-guinea-worm-eradication-programme/ |website=The John Snow Society |access-date=28 October 2023 |date=9 September 1995}}</ref> |- | 1996 ||150px || Richard Feachem||{{flagu|United Kingdom}} {{flagu|United States}} ||"Would John Snow have joined the world bank?" ||<ref>{{cite book |title=Communicable Disease Report: CDR weekly |date=1996 |publisher=PHLS Communicable Disease Surveillance Centre |page=314 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=O_tQAQAAIAAJ |language=en}}</ref> |- | 1997 || || Hugh Pennington ||{{flagu|United Kingdom}} ||"E. coli in Scotland – the relevance of John Snow and William Whewell’s consilience of induction" ||<ref name=Comm>{{cite book |title=Communicable Disease Report: CDR weekly |date=1997 |publisher=PHLS Communicable Disease Surveillance Centre |page=286 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=bfpQAQAAIAAJ |language=en}}</ref> |- | 1998 ||150px || Richard J. Evans|| {{flagu|United Kingdom}}||"Koch, Pettenkofer and the search for the cause of cholera" || |- | 1999 || || Chris Bartlett||{{flagu|United Kingdom}} ||"Removing the pump handle at an international level" || |- | 2000 || || John Oxford||{{flagu|United Kingdom}} ||"The search for permafrost and other victims of the 1918 Influenza" || |- | 2001 || || David Bradley|| ||"John Snow in the world of today" || |- | 2002 || || David Salisbury|| ||"Managing vaccine adverse effects" || |- | 2003 || 150px || Mike Ryan||{{flagu|Ireland}} ||"Epidemics in the 21st Century, the lesson of SARS" || |- | 2004 || || Alain Moren|| ||"Challenges for field epidemiology training in a widening Europe" || |- | 2005 || || Tore Godal|| ||"Everything is Impossible until it has been done" ||<ref name=Parslow2006>{{cite journal |last1=Parslow |first1=Graham R. |title=Websites of note |journal=Biochemistry and Molecular Biology Education |date=May 2006 |volume=34 |issue=3 |pages=232–234 |doi=10.1002/bmb.2006.49403403232 |pmid=21638683 |s2cid=39499985 |url=https://iubmb.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/bmb.2006.49403403232 |language=en |issn=1470-8175|url-access=subscription }}</ref> |- | 2006 || || Jamie Bartram||{{flagu|United Kingdom}} ||"Drinking Water - Where Science Meets Policy" ||<ref>{{cite web |title=Jamie Bartram (CV) |url=https://sph.unc.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/112/2021/03/JB-CV-Feb-2021.pdf |website=sph.unc.edu |access-date=18 November 2023}}</ref> |- | 2007 || 150px || Donald Henderson|| {{flagu|United States}}||"Polio Eradication, a reconsideration of strategy" || <ref>{{cite web |title=2007 D A Henderson: Polio Eradication, a reconsideration of strategy |url=https://johnsnowsociety.org/2007/09/09/2007-d-a-henderson-polio-eradication-a-reconsideration-of-strategy/ |website=The John Snow Society |access-date=18 August 2024 |date=9 September 2007}}</ref> |- | 2008 || || Patrick Wall||{{flagu|Ireland}} ||"Food Safety – Media based or Risk Based controls?" || |- | 2009 || || David L. Heymann|| {{flagu|United States}}||"When Nature turns cook – The epidemiologist’s feast" || |- | 2010 || 150px || David Nabarro||{{flagu|United Kingdom}} ||"Sapiens, Synergy, Solidarite, Success" ||<ref name=WHO2023>{{cite web |last1=Okonjo-Iweala |first1=DG |title=Global Health Equity and the Role of Trade |url=https://www.wto.org/english/news_e/spno_e/spno40_e.htm |website=www.wto.org |publisher=World Trade Organization |access-date=18 November 2023 |language=en}}</ref> |- | 2011 ||150px || Hans Rosling|| {{flagu|Sweden}}||"Epidemiology for the Bottom Billion – where there is not even a pump handle to remove!" ||<ref name=Schneider2015>{{cite book |last1=Schneider |first1=Dona |last2=Lilienfeld |first2=David E. |last3=Lilienfeld |first3=Abraham M. |title=Lilienfeld's Foundations of Epidemiology |date=2015 |publisher=Oxford University Press |isbn=978-0-19-537767-5 |page=72 |edition=4th |chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=-AkWCgAAQBAJ&pg=PA72|language=en |chapter=Part II. Descriptive studies}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=Pumphandle Lecture|url=http://epimonitor.net/Rosling_Delivers_Pumphandle_Lecture.htm |website=epimonitor.net |access-date=26 October 2023}}</ref> |- | 2012 ||150px || Tom Frieden||{{flagu|United States}} ||"What pump handles need to be removed to save the most lives in this century? ||<ref name=Cahill2018>{{cite journal |last1=Cahill |first1=Anne-Taylor |title=Dr. Snow and the Blue Death |journal=Nineteenth Century |date=1 January 2018 |volume=38 |issue=2 |url=https://digitalcommons.odu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1079&=&context=philosophy_fac_pubs&=&sei-redir=1&referer=https%253A%252F%252Fscholar.google.com%252Fscholar%253Fstart%253D10%2526q%253D%252522John%252BSnow%252BSociety%252522%2526hl%253Den%2526as_sdt%253D0%252C5#search=%22John%20Snow%20Society%22}}</ref> |- | 2013 || || Julie Cliff|| {{flagu|Australia}} ||"From London to Mozambique, from cholera to konzo" ||<ref>{{cite web |title=John Snow Society Pumphandle lecture and AGM 2013 |url=https://www.rsph.org.uk/about-us/news/john-snow-society-pumphandle-lecture-and-agm-2013.html |website=www.rsph.org.uk |access-date=27 October 2023}}</ref> |- | 2014 ||150px || Jeremy Farrar||{{flagu|United Kingdom}} ||"Medicine and public health: divorced for too long" ||<ref name=WHO2023/> |- | 2015 || 150px || Atul Gawande || {{flagu|United States}}||"On removing the pumphandle: innovation and implementation" || |- | 2016 ||150px || Paul B. Spiegel||{{flagu|Canada}} ||"The Syrian conflict and its effect on the future of humanitarian response: We need a new pumphandle" || |- | 2017 || 150px || Richard Horton || {{flagu|United Kingdom}} ||"Life and Death in 2100: Health, History and Human Contingency" || |- | 2018 || 150px || Joanne Liu||{{flagu|Canada}} ||"The Cost of Fear: Humanitarian Crises in the Age of Anxiety" || |- | 2019 ||150px || Eliza Manningham-Buller||{{flagu|United Kingdom}} ||"Promoting Medical Science in an Age of Scepticism" || |- | 2020 || 150px|| John Nkengasong ||{{flagu|Cameroon}} {{flagu|United States}} ||"Africa CDC: A New Public Health Order" ||<ref name=WHO2023/> |- | 2021 || 150px || Anthony Fauci ||{{flagu|United States}} ||"COVID-19: Lessons Learned and Remaining Challenges" ||<ref name=WHO2023/> |- | 2022 || 150px || Andrew Haines ||{{flagu|United Kingdom}} ||"The imperative of climate action for health" || |- | 2023 || 150px || Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala||{{flagu|Nigeria}} {{flagu|United States}} |"Global health equity and the role of trade" ||<ref name=WHO2023/><ref>{{cite web |title=Pumphandle Lecture 2023: Dr Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala {{!}} LSHTM |url=https://www.lshtm.ac.uk/newsevents/events/pumphandle-lecture-2023-dr-ngozi-okonjo-iweala |website=www.lshtm.ac.uk |access-date=28 October 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231028093433/https://www.lshtm.ac.uk/newsevents/events/pumphandle-lecture-2023-dr-ngozi-okonjo-iweala |archive-date=28 October 2023 |language=en |date=31 October 2023}}</ref> |- |2024 |150px |Soumya Swaminathan |{{flagu|India}} |“Pandemics, Climate Change and the Role of Science” |<ref>{{cite web |title=2024 Broadsheet now available to read |url=https://johnsnowsociety.org/2024/08/15/2024-broadsheet/ |website=The John Snow Society |access-date=19 August 2024 |date=15 August 2024}}</ref> |- |2025 |150px |Cesar Victora ||{{flagu|Brazil}} |"From local insights to global impact: Four decades of child health and nutrition epidemiology in Pelotas, Brazil" |<ref name=Horton2025>{{cite journal |last1=Horton |first1=Richard |title=Offline: The past is not the future |journal=The Lancet |date=18 October 2025 |volume=406 |issue=10513 |pages=1713 |doi=10.1016/S0140-6736(25)02079-3 |url=https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(25)02079-3/fulltext |access-date=9 November 2025 |language=English |issn=0140-6736|url-access=subscription }}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=Pumphandle Lecture 2025: Dr Cesar Victora {{!}} LSHTM |url=https://www.lshtm.ac.uk/newsevents/events/pumphandle-lecture-2025-dr-cesar-victora |website=www.lshtm.ac.uk |access-date=18 October 2025 |language=en |date=23 October 2025}}</ref> |- |}
== References == {{Reflist}}
Category:Recurring events established in 1993 Category:British lecture series Category:Medical lecture series Category:Annual events in London