Sir Michael Marmot PhD ’75, MPH ’72 is an internationally acclaimed epidemiologist and professor of epidemiology at University College London. He has led research groups on health inequalities for the past 40 years. He set up and led a number of longitudinal cohort studies on the social gradient in health in the UCL Department of Epidemiology & Public Health (where he was head of department for 25 years): the Whitehall II Studies of British Civil Servants, investigating explanations for the striking inverse social gradient in morbidity and mortality; the English Longitudinal Study of Ageing; and several international research efforts on the social determinants of health. He chairs the Commission on Equity and Health Inequalities in the Americas and was previously chair of the Commission on Social Determinants of Health.

In 2000 he was knighted by Her Majesty The Queen for services to epidemiology and understanding health inequalities.

Honoree in the Media

• Social Justice and Health Equity – A talk with Sir Michael Marmot
  UC Berkeley School of Public Health Dean’s Speaker Series event
• Sir Michael Marmot: consider health impacts when formulating policies
  The Guardian
• Sir Michael Marmot: Social Determinants of Health
  2014 WORLD.MINDS
• Unnatural Causes, a PBS series: Interview with Sir Michael Marmot