Michael Marmot
Sir Michael Gideon Marmot (born January 26, 1945 ) is a British professor of epidemiology and public health at University College London . He is also director of the UCL International Institute for Society and Health, chairman of the Commission on Social Determinants of Health established by the WHO in 2005, the Department of Health Scientific Reference Group, and the WCRF / AICR Food, Nutrition and the Prevention of Cancer report.
Life
Marmot holds an MB BS from the University of Sydney and an MPH and PhD from the University of California, Berkeley .
Marmot led a research group on the social inequality of health opportunities over the past 30 years. He is the project leader of the Whitehall Study , in which he analyzes the reasons for the negative relationship between social status and morbidity / mortality - the so-called status syndrome. He also leads the English Longitudinal Study of Aging (ELSA) and several international research initiatives on the social determinants of health. Marmot was a member of the Royal Commission on Environmental Pollution for six years and is Vice President of the Academia Europaea .
job
Marmot's longstanding research interest is the causality between the social environment and health. He studied biological and psychosocial influences on cardiovascular diseases in particular . For example, he showed a change in disease rates based on Japanese immigrants in the US and other immigrants in the UK . He focused on explaining the high rates of cardiovascular disease among Indian immigrants that could be traced back to the metabolic syndrome . Similar biological mechanisms played a role in explaining the social gradient in these diseases in the UK. The study on employees in the public sector showed that the risk of illness correlates negatively with social status. Responsible is the degree of control over one's own work, which is associated with psychosocial stress. These connections could also explain the rise in cardiovascular diseases and the decline in life expectancy in Russia and the countries of the former Eastern Bloc after the collapse of the Soviet Union . Marmot processed these findings in the book Status Syndrome published in 2004 .
honors and awards
- Prince Mahidol Prize (2015)
- Honorary Doctorate from Northumbria University (2012)
- Honorary Doctorate from Dublin University (2011)
- Honorary doctorate from the Universidad Peruana Cayetano Heredia (2011)
- Honorary Member of the British Academy (2008)
- William B. Graham Prize for Health Services Research (2008)
- Harveian Oration (2006)
- Longevity Prize (2005)
- Balzan Prize (2004)
- Knight Bachelor (2000)
- Member of the Academia Europaea (1995)
Selected publications
- Achieving health equity: from root causes to fair outcomes. Geneva: Commission on Social Determinants of Health, 2007.
- Social determinants of health inequalities. Lancet (2005), Vol. 365, pp. 1099-1104.
- Status Syndrome - how your social standing directly affects your health and life expectancy. London: Bloomsbury & Henry Holt New York, 2004.
- Health inequalities among British civil servants; the Whitehall II study (with Davey Smith G, Stansfeld, S., Patel, C., North, F., Head, J., White, I., Brunner, E., Feeney, A.). Lancet, 1991, Vol. 337, pp. 1387-1393.
- Inequalities in death - specific explanations of a general pattern? (with Shipley M., Rose, G.) Lancet, 1984, pp. 1003-6.
- The changing social class distribution of heart disease (with Adelstein, A., Robinson, N., Rose, G.). BMJ, 1978, Vol. 2, pp. 1109-1112
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| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Marmot, Michael |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Marmot, Michael Gideon; Marmot, MG |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | British epidemiologist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | January 26, 1945 |