Sir Michael Marmot
All blog entries by Sir Michael Marmot
21st November 2017
Remarks in opening expert plenary session at NCD conference in Montevideo (18 October 2017)
NCDs are a global health problem. One purpose of our meeting here in Montevideo is to plan for an NCD summit to be held in at the UN in New York in Sept...
19th January 2017
My heart is full. On inauguration as WMA President, my speech (see elsewhere) invited National Medical Associations and individual doctors to rise to the challenge of health equity. I talked inequality of social and economic conditions damaging health and...
19th January 2017
It has been a fortnight of celebrations. Celebrations of scholarship. University graduations are moving occasions: times of celebration of achievement and hope. There will be time for disappointment and frustration, time for cynicism and loss of ideals. Bu...
19th September 2016
It is easy to find accounts of Australian aboriginal health – strictly Aborigines and Torres Strait Islanders – that are lacking in hope. The standard narrative is that $billions have been spent, but aboriginal families are characterised by violence, alcoh...
11th August 2016
Word Association game. Panama…Papers. There is, though, a canal. Actually, the Canal. A rather important canal that antedated the Panama Papers. It is hard not to think Panama Papers as you fly in to the city and see the remarkable cluster of tall building...
11th August 2016
“If the house began as a shack on vacant land and grew from there, what evidence does he have that his house is his?” I asked Father Harvey. The Padre asked him.
“My life,” said his parishioner, a wiry 60 something year old. “I was born there, lived the...
22nd March 2016
Can we justify the kind of celebrations accompanying an honorary doctorate? Putting on funny gowns and hats, having bands and choirs, and walking through the streets in procession? Not to mention the lectures and dinners that accompany such an occasion. We...
16th March 2016
I began my book, The Health Gap, with the line: What good does it do to treat people and send them back to the conditions that made them sick. I did not have in mind the current crisis of mass refugees in Europe, but it brings home the question in a...
2nd November 2015
Taiwan has had dramatic improvements in health. In my view that betokens dramatic improvements in society, along with increased prosperity. A good society will find the route out of poverty as well as caring for those who are disadvantaged in other ways. O...
1st November 2015
(01.11.2015) Politics? Yes, of course, politics. It is always there. But, we argue consistently that concern with health should trump concern with diplomatic political sensitivities. I said it at the World Medical Association General Medical Assembly in Mo...
