Professor Michael Marmot

Professor Sir Michael Marmot is Professor of Epidemiology and Public Health at University College London. He is Director of the UCL Institute of Health Equity. Prof Marmot has led research groups on health inequalities and the social determinants of health for over 30 years. He has set up and led a number of longitudinal cohort studies on the social gradient in health including the Whitehall Studies of British Civil Servants, investigating striking inverse social gradient in morbidity and mortality and the English Longitudinal Study of Ageing (ELSA). 

Professor Marmot chaired 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. At the request of the British Government, he conducted the Strategic Review of Health Inequalities in England, which published its report ‘Fair Society, Healthy Lives’ (also known as the Marmot Review) in February 2010.