International Institute for Society and Health
2006/07 PUBLIC SEMINAR SERIES
You are invited to attend
Tuesday 27th February 5.00 pm
Professor Sir Michael Marmot
MBBS, MPH, PhD, FRCP, FFPHM, FMedSci
Director: International Institute for Society and Health
MRC Research Professor of Epidemiology and Public Health,
UCL
`Knowledge, Agency, Action: The Commission on Social
Determinants of Health´
Health is not simply an instrument for the purposes of other social
functions - it is an end in itself. The development of society, rich or
poor, can be judged not only by the quality of its populations´ health,
but by the fair distribution of health across the social spectrum.
The Commission on Social Determinants of Health focuses on the
fundamental structures of social hierarchy and the socially
determined conditions these create in which people grow, live, work,
and age. Differences in health between countries reflect often
drastically unequal historical and current international arrangements,
and the enormous differentials of national wealth and poverty that
these generate. Differences in health within a country correspond
directly with the places different individuals and groups occupy in the
social hierarchy. The Commissiongrounds itself in a conceptual
framework that offers a vision of continuity between these two, often
conceptually divided, effects.
Professor Sir Michael Marmot will set out the framework
underpinning the Commission´s work and will focus on the example
of gender and health to demonstrate how the Commission attempts
to bring knowledge and action for global health equity together in a
new way.
Michael Marmot has been at the forefront of research into health
inequalities for the past 30 years. He is Principal Investigator of the
Whitehall Studies of British civil servants, investigating explanations
for the striking inverse social gradient in morbidity and mortality and
is currently engaged in several international research efforts on the
social determinants of health. In 2000 he was knighted by Her
Majesty The Queen for `services to Epidemiology and understanding
health inequalities´.Internationally acclaimed, Professor Marmot is a
Vice President of the Academia Europaea, a member of the RAND
Health Advisory Board, a Foreign Associate Member of the Institute
of Medicine, and the Chair of the Commission on Social
Determinants of Health set up by the World Health Organization in
2005. He won the Balzan Prize for Epidemiology in 2004 and gave
the Harveian Oration in 2006.
This seminar will be chaired by Professor Richard Wilkinson,
University of Nottingham Medical School
This seminar will be held at UCL. RSVP seminar attendance by
23/02/07 (indicating any special needs and for directions to the
seminar room) Email: [log in to unmask] Tel: 020 7679 8249 Drinks &
snacks at 6pm after the seminar.
You may access an audio recording of past seminars at:
http://www.ucl.ac.uk/iish/seminars.htm
Jane Johnson
Administrative Assistant
Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, UCL
1-19 Torrington Place
London, WC1E 6BT
T: +44(0)20 7679 8249
www.ucl.ac.uk/capabilityandresilience
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