Michael Marmot

Michael Marmot
Marmot at the 2010 conference of the NHS Confederation
Born
Michael Gideon Marmot

(1945-01-26) 26 January 1945 (age 79)[1]
London, England
Alma mater
Known for
SpouseAlexandra Naomi Ferster[1]
Awards
Scientific career
Institutions
Patrons
ThesisAcculturation and Coronary Heart Disease in Japanese-Americans (1975)

Sir Michael Gideon Marmot CH FRCP FFPM FMedSci FBA (born 26 February 1945) is Professor of Epidemiology and Public Health at University College London. He is currently the Director of The UCL Institute of Health Equity.[4] Marmot has led research groups on health inequalities for over thirty years, working for various international and governmental bodies. In 2023, he was elected to the American Philosophical Society.[5]

He has won several awards including 2012 Lifetime Award Fellowship Eur Academy of Occupational Health Psychology, 2012 Patron of Medsin-UK, 2010 Manchester Doubleday Award, and 2004 Alwyn Smith Prize Medal.

  1. ^ a b "Marmot, Prof. Sir Michael (Gideon)". Who's Who 2014, A & C Black, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing plc, 2014; online edn, Oxford University Press.(subscription required)
  2. ^ "Michael Marmot". instituteofhealthequity.org. Archived from the original on 18 May 2016. Retrieved 10 August 2015.
  3. ^ "Whitehall II". www.ucl.ac.uk.
  4. ^ About page on the Institute of Health Equity website
  5. ^ "The American Philosophical Society Welcomes New Members for 2023".