21 Facts About Michael Marmot

Sir Michael Gideon Marmot was born on 26 February 1945 and is Professor of Epidemiology and Public Health at University College London.

Michael Marmot is currently the Director of The UCL Institute of Health Equity.

Michael Marmot 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.

Michael Marmot earned an MPH degree in 1972 and a PhD in 1975 from the University of California, Berkeley for research into acculturation and coronary heart disease in Japanese Americans.

Michael Marmot was a member of the Royal Commission on Environmental Pollution for six years and in the New Year Honours 2000 he was knighted by Queen Elizabeth II, for services to epidemiology and the understanding of health inequalities.

Michael Marmot was chair of the Commission on Social Determinants of Health, which was set up by the World Health Organization 2005, and in August 2008 he produced for the commission a report called Closing the Gap in a Generation.

Michael Marmot leads the English Longitudinal Study of Ageing, and is engaged in several international research efforts on the social determinants of health.

Michael Marmot served as president of the British Medical Association from 2010 to 2011, and is the new president of the British Lung Foundation.

Michael Marmot was elected member of the Academia Europaea in 1995.

Michael Marmot was appointed Member of the Order of the Companions of Honour in the 2023 New Year Honours for services to public health.

Michael Marmot was elected as a fellow of the Royal College of Physicians in 1989.

Michael Marmot became a fellow of the Faculty of Public Health in 1989, a fellow of the Academy of Medical Sciences in 2008, and was elected an honorary fellow of the British Academy in 2008.

Michael Marmot has been furthermore elected an honorary fellow of the Royal Society of Public Health in 2008, an honorary fellow of the Royal College of Psychiatrists in 2013, and an honorary fellow of the Faculty of Public Health.

Michael Marmot is a Foreign Associate Member of the Institute of Medicine.

Michael Marmot conducted ground-breaking studies of heart disease and stroke, comparing Japanese people in Japan with those in Hawaii and California, where, especially in later generations, the disease patterns became reversed after adopting lifestyle, stress and diet changes.

Michael Marmot has more recently led the Whitehall Studies of British civil servants, again focusing on heart disease and other disease patterns.

Michael Marmot has a special interest in inequalities in health and their causes, and has been a government advisor in seeking to identify ways to mitigate them.

Michael Marmot served on the Scientific Advisory Group of the Independent Inquiry into Inequalities in Health chaired by Sir Donald Acheson, the former UK chief medical officer.

The causal pathway Michael Marmot identifies concerns the psychic benefits of "being in control" of one's life.

In 2020, Michael Marmot co-authored Health Equity in England: The Michael Marmot Review 10 Years On.

In 2022, Michael Marmot warned of the risk of "a humanitarian crisis" the next winter caused by "fuel poverty", which could have long-term consequences mostly for the young and least well-off.