Phm 2018 history

In July 2003 the DGH holds its annual General Assembly in Berkeley, California where some participants make presentations about PHM. In November 2003 PHM-USA holds a meeting, hosted by Hesperian, during the American Association of Public Health annual meeting in San Francisco.

2004 A Peterloo pike, which is said to have been used on St Peter’s Field by one of the protestors for self-protection, is donated to the museum by the owner’s great, great, great grandchild.

9 August 2005 Chancellor of the Exchequer Gordon Brown MP announces PHM is to become one of the national museums that is free to enter.

25 January 2006 Heritage Lottery Fund (HLF) agrees to support the museum’s proposed ‘one site’ project – to bring all of the museum’s activities, services, operations and staff onto one site.

27 April 2007 Songwriter and political activist Billy Bragg opens the last changing exhibition, Battle for the Ballot – the struggle for the vote in Britain, before the museum closes for redevelopment.

16 January 2008 An investment of £12.5 million is successfully secured from local, regional and national partners.

January 2009 The museum’s new extension is clad in Cor-Ten® steel, the first public building in Manchester to use this unusual material perhaps most well known for being used for the Angel of the North.

9 August 2010 Katy Ashton joins as Director and leads the museum on the next chapter of its trail blazing journey.

1 November 2012 PHM’s first same sex civil partnership ceremony is held at the museum.

At the 2014 PHM national meeting a plenary was convened with a panel of high-level leaders, including CEOs, COOs, and chairs of hospitals from across the US to talk about their experiences in leadership.

14 February 2015 Election! Britain Votes opens ahead of the 2015 general election, a major exhibition charting the history of general elections in Britain over the last 100 years.

PHM-USA joined with PHM-Canada to organize PHM’s presence at the 2016 World Social Forum in Montréal. organizing a series of sessions on extractive industries and trade and health.

2 March 2017 Actor and activist Ian McKellen opens the exhibition Never Going Underground: The Fight for LGBT+ Rights.

October 2018 A mural on the exterior of the building by international street artist Axel Void is revealed called Peterloo.

ABMS Officially Recognizes Pediatric Hospital Medicine Subspecialty Certification. https://www.abms.org/news-events/abms-officially-recognizes-pediatric-hospital-medicine-subspecialty-certification/. Accessed January 20, 2020.