Michael Marmot#
| Membership Number: | 1695 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | GOVERNANCE, INSTITUTIONS AND POLICIES: EDUCATION, HEALTH AND WELFARE |
| Elected: | 1995 |
| Main Country of Residence: | UNITED KINGDOM |
| Homepage(s): | http://www.ucl.ac.uk/epidemiology/people/marmotm.htm |
Present and Previous Positions
- Chair of the Commission on Social Determinants of Health set up by the World Health Organisation in 2005; led the English Longitudinal Study of Ageing (Elsa)
- Director of the International Institute for Society and Health
- MRC Research Professor of Epidemiology and Public Health, University College, London
Fields of Scholarship
- Health inequalities
- Social determinants of health
Honours and Awards
- 2000 Knighted by Her Majesty The Queen for services to Epidemiology and understanding health inequalities (2000)
- Foreign Associate Member of the Institute of Medicine (IOM)
- 2005 Chair of the Commission on Social Determinants of Health set up by the World Health Organization
- 2004 Balzan Prize for Epidemiology
- 2006 Harveian Oration
- 2008 William B. Graham Prize for Health Services Research
- Honorary fellow of the British Academy
- 2010 - 2011 President of the British Medical Association
