[Alma Mata] Fwd: FW: IISH Public Seminar, 27th Feb 07

[Rebecca Hope]

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 Commission  grounds 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: 





iish at ucl.ac.uk 





  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 





www.ucl.ac.uk/iish 





www.ucl.ac.uk/epidemiology 





              
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