Background
Michael Marmot was born on the 26th of January, 1945 in London, United Kingdom, the son of Nathan and Alice (Weiner) Marmot. His family immigrated in 1949 to Sydney, Australia, but he returned to England in 1976.
1961
556 Cleveland St, Moore Park NSW 2021, Australia
Michael Marmot studied at Sydney Boys High School from 1957 to 1961.
1968
Camperdown NSW 2006, Australia
Michael Marmot attended the University of Sydney where he received a Bachelor of Science in Medicine and a Bachelor of Surgery degree in 1968.
1975
Berkeley, CA, United States
Michael obtained a Master of Public Health in 1972 and a Doctor of Philosophy degree in 1975 from the University of California, Berkeley.
2014
Ryan relegated to Kids Corner as Sir Michael Marmot expounds and expands on the ideas in A Healthy Society.
2018
Prof Jonathan Craig, Kathleen Martin, Sir Michael Marmot.
Sir Michael Marmot
2018
Sir Michael Marmot and LEPH2018 Conference Director, Professor Nick Crofts.
2018
Sir Michael Marmot gave an insightful and inspiring Oration at LEPH2018 in Toronto.
2019
The Chris McGuigan Hub 3 Assembly Square, Cardiff CF10 4PL, United Kingdom
Earlier this month, Professor Sir Michael Marmot visited Life Sciences Hub Wales for a series of meetings with senior Welsh Government officials and to lead a morning seminar for health and social care leaders in Wales.
2010
Sir Michael Marmot at NHS Confederation annual conference and exhibition in 2010.
2014
Prof. Sir Michael Marmot, from the University College London, on the Social Determinants of Health.
2014
Sir Michael Marmot
2016
Sir Michael Marmot with Petronille Bogaert, Hsiao-Wei Yu and Chun-Tung Kuo.
2015
Laboratory of Epidemiology and Public Health, 60 College St, New Haven, CT 06510, United States
Sir Michael Marmot received the Centennial Winslow Medal at Yale School of Public Health.
1961
556 Cleveland St, Moore Park NSW 2021, Australia
Michael Marmot studied at Sydney Boys High School from 1957 to 1961.
1968
Camperdown NSW 2006, Australia
Michael Marmot attended the University of Sydney where he received a Bachelor of Science in Medicine and a Bachelor of Surgery degree in 1968.
1975
Berkeley, CA, United States
Michael obtained a Master of Public Health in 1972 and a Doctor of Philosophy degree in 1975 from the University of California, Berkeley.
2010
Sir Michael Marmot at NHS Confederation annual conference and exhibition in 2010.
2014
Prof. Sir Michael Marmot, from the University College London, on the Social Determinants of Health.
2014
Sir Michael Marmot
2014
Ryan relegated to Kids Corner as Sir Michael Marmot expounds and expands on the ideas in A Healthy Society.
2015
Laboratory of Epidemiology and Public Health, 60 College St, New Haven, CT 06510, United States
Sir Michael Marmot received the Centennial Winslow Medal at Yale School of Public Health.
2016
Sir Michael Marmot with Petronille Bogaert, Hsiao-Wei Yu and Chun-Tung Kuo.
2017
Sturt Rd, Bedford Park SA 5042, Australia
Sir Michael Marmot, Prof Fran Baum, Prof Sharon Friel at Flinders University.
2017
In the inaugural lecture on Health Equity on 23 February 2017, Sir Michael Marmot argued that social injustice is the greatest threat to global health, and that government, academics and other members of civil society have an important role to play in addressing societal imbalances in power, money, and resources that work against health equity.
2018
Sir Michael Marmot and LEPH2018 Conference Director, Professor Nick Crofts.
2018
Sir Michael Marmot gave an insightful and inspiring Oration at LEPH2018 in Toronto.
2018
Sir Michael Marmot gave an insightful and inspiring Oration at LEPH2018 in Toronto.
2018
Prof Jonathan Craig, Kathleen Martin, Sir Michael Marmot.
2018
Dr Tim Carey and Ms Kathleen Martin, from the Centre for Remote Health, left, with Professor Sir Michael Marmot, Professor Jonathan Craig, and Professor Fran Baum and senior researcher Dr Toby Freeman from the Southgate Institute.
2018
Watch Professor Sir Michael Marmot and Dr Jennifer Dixon, Chief Executive of the Health Foundation.
2018
Professor Sir Michael Marmot recently spoke at a lecture that launched a new report on health inequalities in British cities.
2018
Sir Michael Marmot
2019
The Chris McGuigan Hub 3 Assembly Square, Cardiff CF10 4PL, United Kingdom
Earlier this month, Professor Sir Michael Marmot visited Life Sciences Hub Wales for a series of meetings with senior Welsh Government officials and to lead a morning seminar for health and social care leaders in Wales.
Sir Michael Marmot
Sir Michael Marmot
Dr. Valerie Montgomery Rice speaks with Sir Michael Marmot.
Professor Sir Michael Marmot.
Professor Sir Michael Marmot.
(Coronary heart disease is the leading cause of death worl...)
Coronary heart disease is the leading cause of death worldwide affecting millions of people in both developed and developing countries. The dual aims of this book are to review the well-established and emerging risk factors in coronary heart disease and to apply this knowledge to public health approaches to disease prevention. The book includes authoritative accounts of studies within a single population and international studies, important areas of methodological development, trials to test preventive strategies, and the application of epidemiological and other knowledge to the development of public health policy for the prevention of widespread disease. It is an all-encompassing work containing contributions from the world authorities in the field.
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Coronary-Heart-Disease-Epidemiology-Publications/dp/0198525737/?tag=prabook0b-20
1992
(Social Determinants of Health, 2E gives an authoritative ...)
Social Determinants of Health, 2E gives an authoritative overview of the social and economic factors which are known to be the most powerful determinants of population health in modern societies. Written by acknowledged experts in each field, it provides accessible summaries of the scientific justification for isolating different aspects of social and economic life as the primary determinants of a population's health.
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Social-Determinants-Health-Michael-Marmot/dp/0198565895/?tag=prabook0b-20
1999
(Why do Oscar winners live for an average of four years lo...)
Why do Oscar winners live for an average of four years longer than other Hollywood actors? Who experiences the most stress, the decision-makers or those who carry out their orders? Why do the Japanese have better health than other rich populations, and Keralans in India have better health than other poor populations, and what do they have in common? In this eye-opening book, internationally renowned epidemiologist Michael Marmot sets out to answer these and many other fascinating questions in order to understand the relationship between where we stand in the social hierarchy and our health and longevity. It is based on more than thirty years of front-line research between health and social circumstances.
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Status-Syndrome-Gradient-Directly-Affects/dp/1408872684/?tag=prabook0b-20
2004
(Marked health inequities exist between regions, between c...)
Marked health inequities exist between regions, between countries, and within countries. Reducing these inequities in health requires attention to the unfair distribution of power, money, and resources and the conditions of everyday life. These are the social determinants of health. The World Health Organization (WHO) Commission on Social Determinants of Health (CSDH) brought together a global evidence base of what could be done to reduce these health inequities, demonstrating that economic and social policy, if done well, can improve health and health equity. A global movement for health equity was reignited by the WHO Commission on Social Determinants of Health when it made a call to action upon delivering its final report.
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Action-Social-Determinants-Health-Inequities-ebook/dp/B009VJ3FQW/?tag=prabook0b-20
2012
(There are dramatic differences in health between countrie...)
There are dramatic differences in health between countries and within countries. But this is not a simple matter of rich and poor. A poor man in Glasgow is rich compared to the average Indian, but the Glaswegian's life expectancy is 8 years shorter. The Indian is dying of infectious disease linked to his poverty; the Glaswegian of violent death, suicide, heart disease linked to a rich country's version of disadvantage. In all countries, people at relative social disadvantage suffer health disadvantages, dramatically so. Within countries, the higher the social status of individuals the better is their health.
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Health-Gap-Challenge-Unequal-World/dp/1408857979/?tag=prabook0b-20
2015
https://www.amazon.co.uk/society-healthy-lives-Michael-Marmot/dp/8822262514/?tag=prabook0b-20
2010
Michael Marmot was born on the 26th of January, 1945 in London, United Kingdom, the son of Nathan and Alice (Weiner) Marmot. His family immigrated in 1949 to Sydney, Australia, but he returned to England in 1976.
As a child, Michael Marmot studied at Sydney Boys High School from 1957 to 1961. He attended the University of Sydney where he received a Bachelor of Science in Medicine and a Bachelor of Surgery degree in 1968. Michael obtained a Master of Public Health in 1972 and a Doctor of Philosophy degree in 1975 from the University of California, Berkeley.
Michael Marmot has been awarded honorary doctorates from 18 universities - the University of Sydney in 2006, Université Libre de Bruxelles in 2008, University of Athens in 2009, University of Montreal in 2009, University of Stockholm and University of Helsinki in 2010, Trinity College, Universidad Peruana Cayetano, Dublin and Ghent University in 2011, Malmo University in 2012, University of Newcastle and Middlesex University in 2013, KU Leuven in 2014, Lund University in 2015, Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU) and Ghent University in 2016, and University of Miami in 2017.
Michael Marmot began his career as a lecturer at the University of California in Berkeley in 1975-76. Soon after that, he joined the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine (LSHTM) where he served as a senior lecturer in Epidemiology from 1976 to 1985.
Michael was a consultant in Medical Division in 1980-84 and from 1985 he is a Professor of Epidemiology and Public Health at the University College London. He was a Research Professor in Epidemiology from 1995 to 2013 and Director of the UCL Institute of Health Equity (UCL Epidemiology and Public Health) from 2011 at UCL. He became Director of the International Centre for Health and Society established at University College London in 1994 (now UCL International Institute for Society and Health). He also was an adjunct professor at Harvard School of Public Health from 2000 to 2004.
Professor Marmot has led research groups on health inequalities for over 40 years. He chairs the Commission on Equity and Health Inequalities in the Americas, set up in 2015 by the World Health Organizations’ Pan-American Health Organization (PAHO/ WHO). 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.
Marmot set up and led a number of longitudinal cohort studies on the social gradient in health in the UCL Department of Epidemiology & Public Health, where he was head of the department for 25 years, Health Surveys for England and Scotland and the Whitehall II Studies of British Civil Servants, investigating explanations for the striking inverse social gradient in morbidity and mortality; the English Longitudinal Study of Ageing (ELSA), and several international research efforts on the social determinants of health.
Marmot served on the Independent Inquiry into Inequalities in Health, as well as several international studies of social factors affecting public health, alongside researchers in Eastern Europe, Japan, Finland, and other countries. He was a chairman of the British Department of Health Scientific Reference Group on health inequalities and the British National Institute for Clinical Excellence Research and Development Committee.
Michael Marmot is the author of Status Syndrome: How Your Place on the Social Gradient Directly Affects Your Health that was published in 2004 and The Health Gap: the Challenge of an Unequal World in 2015. With A. M. Adelstein, L. Bulusu, and Office of Population Censuses and Surveys he wrote Immigrant Mortality in England and Wales, 1970-78: Causes of Death by Country of Birth in 1984.
Marmot edited with Paul Elliott Coronary Heart Disease Epidemiology: From Aetiology to Public Health in 1992, with Richard G. Wilkinson Social Determinants of Health in 1999, with Stephen Stansfeld Stress and the Heart: Psychosocial Pathways to Coronary Heart Disease in 2002. He is a contributor of over 400 papers to major medical journals, including the British Medical Journal, American Journal of Epidemiology, Lancet, and American Journal of Public Health.
Michael Marmot’s greatest contributions have been in clarifying the health differences that derive from economic and social inequality.
In 2000 Michael Marmot was knighted by Her Majesty The Queen, for services to Epidemiology and the understanding of health inequalities. He received An alumnus of the Year for School of Public Health from the University of California in 2000. In 2002 he earned The Charles M. & Martha Hitchcock Professorship by the University of California. In 2003 he was a Visiting Fellow Commoner at Trinity College, Cambridge. In 2005, Michael received Honorary Professorship from Case University, Ohio.
Michael received Honour for Harold Hatch Lecture from the International Longevity Centre and Harveian Oration Honour from the Royal College of Physicians in 2006. In 2007 he got Honour for Lewis A. Conner Memorial Lecture from American Heart Association.
In 2008, Marmot received Honorary Professorship as a McLaughlin-Gallie Visiting Professor at Royal College of Physicians & Surgeons of Canada and Honorary Professorship as a Distinguished H. Lyman Hooker Visiting Professor at McMasters University in 2010.
Michael Marmot was a Visiting Harvard and Lown Professor at Harvard University in 2014. He received two Fellowships in 2015 from the American College of Epidemiology and Royal College of Obstetrics & Gynaecologists and two Fellowships in 2016 from Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health and Royal Society of Statistics (RSS).
(Why do Oscar winners live for an average of four years lo...)
2004(Social Determinants of Health, 2E gives an authoritative ...)
1999(Coronary heart disease is the leading cause of death worl...)
1992(Marked health inequities exist between regions, between c...)
2012(There are dramatic differences in health between countrie...)
2015Marmot's research has been devoted to establishing the chain of disease causation from the social environment, through psychosocial influences, biological pathways, to the risk of cardiovascular and other diseases. In studies of Japanese migrants to the USA and migrants to Britain from a number of countries, he showed that disease rates change. The longer the migrant has been in the new country, the more closely rates of the disease resemble those of the new country. A specific object of investigation was the high rates of cardiovascular disease and diabetes among immigrants from the Indian subcontinent. This defied the usual explanations. Marmot showed it was related to the metabolic syndrome-related to insulin resistance and the resultant lipid disturbances. This same set of biological mechanisms proved important to the inverse social gradient in cardiovascular disease in Britain.
Marmot's studies of civil servants showed that the lower the status, the higher was the risk. Plasma fibrinogen and the metabolic syndrome mediate much of this excess risk. Marmot produced evidence linking low control at work to the increased risk of cardiovascular disease. He and his colleagues have good evidence that psychosocial stress pathways are involved in the metabolic disturbances observed. It is these pathways that provide the most promising explanation for the new phenomenon that they are investigating: the dramatic increase in cardiovascular disease and drops in life expectancy that occurred in Russia and other former communist countries of Central and Eastern Europe. A new thrust of the research is its application to an aging population.
Quotations:
"Health inequalities and the social determinants of health are not a footnote to the determinants of health. They are the main issue".
"There's good evidence that if people are disempowered, if they have little control over their lives, if they're socially isolated or unable to participate fully in society, then there are biological effects".
"The lower you are in the hierarchy the worse your health, the higher you are, the better your health".
"Empowerment of individuals and communities is absolutely central. Getting the community involved in organizing their own destiny has got to be a key part of it".
"We have to put the reduction of health inequalities at the center of our public health strategy and that will require action on the social determinants of health".
"For every dollar spent on early child development, you save $7 over the life course because children with better early child development are less likely to end up delinquent, involved in crime, unemployed and so on".
"The family image, the family tradition, was that my parents were poor immigrants into East London and that they thought that education was vitally important. But they both left school at fourteen, and so I grew up with the idea that, but for the opportunity, my parents would have been educated. That they were giving me this opportunity, and by golly, I better take advantage of it".
"I used to think that medicine and particularly surgery is just failed prevention. That if we could treat these people properly and, particularly, if we could do something about prevention, we could empty the hospital wards. It was probably false, but that's what I used to think".
"I thought that health was a manifestation of the way we organize society and that by asking about health in society, we're asking about society itself".
"When people would come in with non-specific problems and we never quite got to the root of a medical diagnosis, it always seemed to me they were expressing problems in living, and that one needed to look at their problems in living, and how they manifested themselves in physical problems".
"I don't blame people for smoking when I see a social gradient in smoking. I say we need to understand why is it the lower you are in the hierarchy the more likely you are to smoke. So we need to address the causes of the causes".
"Health and health inequalities tell us a great deal about the good or bad effects of social policies".
"Your position in the hierarchy influences your behaviour".
"Once you get off the ladder you'll never get back on".
"Saying we can't afford to invest in early child development means we're storing up bigger costs in the future".
"The brain is an important gateway by which the social environment impacts on people's health through the mind".
"The differences between Indigenous and not Indigenous Australians can be easily attributed not to differences in their genes but to differences in the conditions in which they're born, grow, live, work and age - in other words, to the social determinants of health".
Michael Marmot has been a member of numerous organizations, among them is Behavioural Sciences Section of Academia Europea, Institute of Medicine of the U.S. National Academies, Health Board of Advisors, RAND Corporation, British Cardiac Society, British Academy, Royal Society for Public Health, Association for Psychological Medicine, Belgian Royal Academy of Science (KAGB), International Association for Dental Research, British Medical Association (BMA), European Academy of Occupational Health Psychology, British Lung Foundation, Swiss Academy of Humanities & Social Sciences, New York Academy of Medicine, Cancer Research UK, World Medical Association (WMA), National Academy of Medicine, Academy of Medical Sciences, Faculty of Public Health of the Royal College of Physicians, Royal Commission on Environmental Pollution.
Vice-president
Behavioural Sciences Section of Academia Europaea , United Kingdom
1996
Honorary Member
British Cardiac Society , United Kingdom
2005
Honorary Member
British Academy , United Kingdom
2008
Honorary Member
Royal Society for Public Health , United Kingdom
2008
Association for Psychological Medicine , United Kingdom
2011
Corresponding Member
Belgian Royal Academy of Science (KAGB) , United Kingdom
2011
Honorary Member
International Association for Dental Research , United Kingdom
2011
President
British Medical Association , United Kingdom
2010 - 2011
President
British Medical Association , United Kingdom
2014
European Academy of Occupational Health Psychology , United Kingdom
2012
President
British Lung Foundation , United Kingdom
2013
Honorary Member
Swiss Academy of Humanities & Social Sciences , Switzerland
2013
New York Academy of Medicine , United States
2014
Chair, International Advisory Board
Cancer Research UK , United Kingdom
2014
President
World Medical Association (WMA) , United Kingdom
2015
National Academy of Medicine , United Kingdom
2015
Michael Gideon Marmot is married to Alexi Ferster. They have three children, Andre, Daniel, Deborah.
