Workshop with Professor Sir Michael Marmot "Inequalities in Health"
The 14th of May, the academic group for social medicine and epidemiology are arranging a seminar about teaching and social inequalities in health. Professor Sir Michael Marmot is the main speaker at this event (see sidebar for more comprehensive CV). Sir Marmot is very influential within the field of inequalities in health and has contributed extensively with high quality research and policy work.
Conversations with History: Sir Michael Marmot
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Program for the workshop
1530-1715 Workshop (for approximately 30 scientific staff)
1530-1540 Welcome and presentation
1540-1625 “How can we contribute to reduce social inequalities in health through our teaching of students in various health professions?”
15 minutes introduction by Michael Marmot, 30 minutes discussion
1635-1715 “How to communicate with policy makers about the need for interventions to reduce social inequalities in health?”
10 minutes introduction by Michael Marmot, 30 minutes discussion
1715-1720 Concluding remarks
Professor Sir Michael Marmot is currently Director of the Institute of Health Equity and MRC Research Professor in Epidemiology at University College London (UCL).
He has led a research group on health inequalities for the past 30 years. He has been invited by the Regional Director of WHO Euro to conduct a European review of health inequalities. At the request of the British Government, he previously conducted a review of health inequalities, which published its report 'Fair Society, Healthy Lives' in February 2010. He was Chair of the Commission on Social Determinants of Health set up by the World Health Organization in 2005. He is Principal Investigator of the Whitehall Studies of British civil servants, investigating explanations for the striking inverse social gradient in morbidity and mortality. He leads the English Longitudinal Study of Ageing (ELSA) and is engaged in several international research efforts on the social determinants of health. He chaired the Department of Health Scientific Reference Group on tackling health inequalities.
