When he was a young child, his family moved to Sydney in Australia,[5] where he attended Sydney Boys High School (1957–1961)[6] and graduated with a Bachelor of Medicine, Bachelor of Surgery (MBBS) degree from the University of Sydney in 1968. Early … He was a member of the Royal Commission on Environmental Pollution for six years and in 2000 he was knighted by Her Majesty The Queen, for services to epidemiology and the understanding of health inequalities. He has been awarded honorary doctorates from 16 universities. MRC Research Professor of Epidemiology and Public Health, University College, London. This was followed by the European Review of Social Determinants of Health and the Health Divide, for WHO Euro n 2014. He leads the English Longitudinal Study of Ageing (ELSA) and is engaged in several international research efforts on the social determinants of health. [4], Marmot was born in London on 26 January 1945. [8] Marmot advises the WHO. University College, London; UCL Institute of Health Equity, London; Patrons: Medsin; World Social Science Forum 2015; HealthWORKS; CCDE Co-patron; Thesis: Acculturation and Coronary Heart Disease in Japanese-Americans (1975) Sir Michael Gideon Marmot, FBA, FMedSci, FRCP (born 26 February 1945) is Professor of Epidemiology and Public Health at University College London. There are 120 other academic staff in the department. He served on the Scientific Advisory Group of the Independent Inquiry into Inequalities in Health chaired by Sir Donald Acheson, the former UK chief medical officer. His department includes the MRC National Survey of Health & Development, a longitudinal study directed by Professor Michael Wadsworth of people born in Britain in 1946 and followed up since. Projects 12. The Review was announced at the launch of the Commission on Social Determinants of Health report Closing the Gap in a Generation. This reported in November 1998. • Michael Marmot is professor of epidemiology at University College London, director of the UCL Institute of Health Equity, and past president of … UCL Institute of Epidemiology and Health Care, University College London, Gower Street, London, WC1E 6BT Tel: +44 (0) 20 7679 2000. Professor of Epidemiology at University College London, and President of the World Medical Association.
Profile Articles Activity. [17], In The Status Syndrome: How your social standing directly affects your health and life expectancy, he argues that socio-economic position is an important determinant for health outcomes. At the request of the British Government, he conducted the Strategic Review of Health Inequalities in England post 2010, which published its report 'Fair Society, Healthy Lives' in February 2010. Director, Institute of Health Equity; Professor, Dept of Epidemiology and Public Health, Director, Institute of Health Equity; Professor, Dept of Epidemiology and Public Health, UCL. On 11 October 2014, Professor Sir Michael Marmot was selected as the next President-elect of the World Medical Association.
He is the author of The Health Gap: the challenge of an unequal world (2015) and Status Syndrome: how your place on the social gradient directly affects your health (2004). Founder of Whitehall II: Michael Marmot. Director of the International Institute for Society and Health.
He set up the Whitehall II Studies of British Civil Servants, investigating explanations for the striking inverse social gradient in morbidity and mortality. He chaired the Breast Screening Review for the NHS National Cancer Action Team and was a member of The Lancet-University of Oslo Commission on Global Governance for Health. Michael Marmot has led a research group on health inequalities for the past 30 years. 2008 Tore Andersson Award in Epidemiological Research, Karolinska Institutet, 2008 William B. Graham Prize for Health Services Research, 2007 Centre for Disease Control (CDC) Foundation Hero Award, 2006 Winner BMA Book Awards 2006 (Public Health), 2004 Alwyn Smith Prize Medal for distinguished service to public health, Faculty of Public Health, 2003 Visiting Fellow Commoner, Trinity College, Cambridge, 2002 Decade of Behaviour Distinguished Speaker, Gerontological Society of America, 2002 Patricia B Barchas Award, American Psychosomatic Society, This page was last edited on 5 November 2020, at 20:40.
The Department is part of the UCL School of Life and Medical Sciences and the UCL Institute of Epidemiology and Health Care. Network. [citation needed], In 2020 the review was published. The founder of Whitehall II, Professor Sir Michael Marmot, was knighted in 2000 for his services to epidemiology and the understanding of health inequalities.
Professor Sir Michael Marmot, director of the UCL Institute of Health Equity, reflects on the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on health inequalities. ‘We have lost a decade.
He was Chair of the Commission on Social Determinants of Health (CSDH), which was set up by the World Health Organization in 2005, and produced the report entitled: 'Closing the Gap in a Generation' in August 2008. Autonomy in this sense is related to our socio-economic position. Director, Institute of Health Equity; Professor, Dept of Epidemiology and Public Health, UCL. He was Chair of the Commission on Social Determinants of Health (CSDH), which was set up by the World Health Organization in 2005, and produced the report entitled: ‘Closing the Gap in a Generation’ in August 2008.
[18], Media related to Michael Marmot at Wikimedia Commons, Learn how and when to remove these template messages, Learn how and when to remove this template message, Bachelor of Medicine, Bachelor of Surgery (MBBS), Royal Commission on Environmental Pollution.