Professor Marmot is Director of the Institute of Health Equity (UCL Department of Epidemiology & Public Health) and has been Professor of Epidemiology at University College London since 1985. He has published more than 1,300 influential articles and books, including The Health Gap: the challenge of an unequal world (Bloomsbury: 2015), and Status Syndrome: how your place on the social gradient directly affects your health  (Bloomsbury: 2004). Professor Marmot is the Advisor to the WHO Director-General, on social determinants of health, in the new WHO Division of Healthier Populations; Distinguished Visiting Professor at Chinese University of Hong Kong (2019-), and co-Director of the of the CUHK Institute of Health Equity. Marmot has led research groups on health inequalities for nearly 50 years. He chaired the Commission on Equity and Health Inequalities in the Americas and chaired the Commission on Social Determinants of Health (CSDH), and produced the report entitled: ‘Closing the Gap in a Generation’ in August 2008. In 2000 he was knighted by  Her Majesty The Queen, for services to epidemiology and the understanding of health inequalities.

Disclosure: Professor Marmot has no relevant financial relationships to disclose.

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