RSM In Conversation Live with Professor Sir Michael Marmot

Recorded on Wednesday 31 March 2021 as part of The Royal Society of Medicine's In Conversation Live series.
Professor Sir Michael Marmot MBBS, MPH, PhD, FRCP, FFPHM, FMedSci, FBA has been Professor of Epidemiology at University College London since 1985. He is the author of ‘The Health Gap: the challenge of an unequal world’, and ‘Status Syndrome: how your place on the social gradient directly affects your health’. Professor Marmot is the Advisor to the WHO Director-General, on social determinants of health, in the new WHO Division of Healthier Populations, and co-Director of the of the CUHK Institute of Health Equity.
Professor Marmot joined Professor Roger Kirby, RSM President, for a tantalising conversation about social justice and taking action to reduce health inequalities, and inequalities in death rates from COVID-19 - how some groups and areas have been affected more than others, the effect of measures to contain the virus on social and economic inequalities and on mental and physical wellbeing.
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