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Michael Marmot

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Professor Sir Michael Marmot is Professor of Epidemiology at University College London, Director of the UCL Institute of Health Equity and Past President of the World Medical Association

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Thank you to my co-chairs @josephestiglitz.bsky.social and the former First Lady of Namibia Monica Geingos, as well as UNAIDS Executive Director Winnie Byanyima, for the last two years on the Global Council on Inequality, AIDS and Pandemics.

03.11.2025 18:02 β€” πŸ‘ 6    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Media reaction from across the world, in multiple languages, as new report reveals that inequality is driving pandemics, endangering us all - and how to fix it

Watch the launch www.youtube.com/watch?v=Adat...

Press release www.unaids.org/en/resources...

Report www.unaids.org/en/resources...

03.11.2025 10:38 β€” πŸ‘ 9    πŸ” 7    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Join my co-chairs @josephestiglitz.bsky.social @monicageingos.bsky.social and me for Global Council on Inequality, AIDS & Pandemics worldwide online launch in South Africa, ahead of G20 health ministers' meeting on 6-7 Nov @benphillips76.bsky.social @unaids.org @jessjallen.bsky.social

30.10.2025 12:42 β€” πŸ‘ 8    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 1
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The Global Council on Inequality, AIDS and Pandemics in partnership with UNAIDS and the Mail & Guardian to host a livestream with leaders on a new report on the impact of Inequality on Pandemics The Mail & Guardian will host the launch of a new report that will show how inequality gaps within and between countries impact pandemics and vulnerability to a new pandemic. The launch is coming at a...

Looking forward to joining my co-chairs Joe Stiglitz and @monicageingos.bsky.social a week today, Monday 3 November, to launch this important new report commissioned by UNAIDs Executive Director Winnie Byanyima @marmotihe.bsky.social @benphillips76.bsky.social
mg.co.za/partner-cont...

27.10.2025 17:20 β€” πŸ‘ 5    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 1

Inequalities are a political choices; social protection reduces inequalities & improves public health. Ahead of #UNGA, as co-chair of the Global Council on Inequality, AIDS & Pandemics, I join Winnie Byanyima @josephestiglitz.bsky.social & @monicageingos.bsky.social to urge leaders to be bold.

19.09.2025 14:42 β€” πŸ‘ 9    πŸ” 5    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

A review of the evidence by @marmotihe.bsky.social shows social protection measures can break the inequalities and pandemics cycle.

07.07.2025 13:09 β€” πŸ‘ 14    πŸ” 4    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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Trump’s budget is one big β€œbeautiful” regressive policy US President Donald Trump’s One Big Beautiful Bill Act (OBBBA), passed by the US Congress, is certainly big. Its beauty is more questionable. The act forms one part of Trump’s signature economic strat...

Trump’s budget is one big β€œbeautiful” regressive policy, with Americans who voted for Trump being adversely affected the most explains @michaelmarmot.bsky.social in @bmj.com www.bmj.com/content/389/...

26.06.2025 20:51 β€” πŸ‘ 9    πŸ” 5    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Always so inspiring to hear @michaelmarmot.bsky.social talk about health inequalities, I only wish he didn’t have to or that the statistics get better

19.05.2025 08:45 β€” πŸ‘ 16    πŸ” 4    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Fantastic morning so far at the @events.hsj.co.uk Reducing Health Inequalities Forum in Birmingham.

Pr. Sir @michaelmarmot.bsky.social highlighted Cheshire and Merseyside’s All Together Fairer report and Programme as a best practice example of local areas tackling these issues head-on.

19.05.2025 11:27 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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Protectionism Will Not Protect Against Pandemics | by Winnie Byanyima & Michael Marmot - Project Syndicate Winnie Byanyima & Michael Marmot highlights the threats posed by foreign-aid cuts, pointing to the inequalities exposed by COVID-19 and AIDS.

Contrary to claims that the Global North gives too much foreign aid and receives too little in return, the Global South is the one getting the bad deal thanks to the inequality-pandemic cycle, note Winnie Byanyima and @ucl.ac.uk's @michaelmarmot.bsky.social.

14.05.2025 15:28 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 3    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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New @who.int global report shows within-country health inequities are widening and the health gap targets will be missed, largely due to a lack of political will to tackle the structural drivers of poor health @michaelmarmot.bsky.social @sudhvir.bsky.social #AllforEquity bit.ly/3SdE4lo

06.05.2025 07:01 β€” πŸ‘ 12    πŸ” 16    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 1
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Social injustice continues to β€˜kill on a grand scale’ A new global report published by the World Health Organization (WHO), the evidence review for which has been provided by the UCL Institute of Health Equity (IHE), reveals that the targets from its fir...

A new global report published by @who.int, the evidence review for which has been provided by @marmotihe.bsky.social @michaelmarmot.bsky.social, reveals that the targets from its first landmark Commission on the Social Determinants of Health will be missed www.ucl.ac.uk/news/2025/ma...

06.05.2025 13:54 β€” πŸ‘ 6    πŸ” 5    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Call to action on social determinants of health β€œSocial injustice is killing people on a grand scale” was the rallying cry of the WHO Commission on Social Determinants of Health (CSDH), published in 2008.1 It remains appropriate to the World Health...

New @who.int global report o social determinants of health equity is a much needed reminder that to improve health equity we must improve society, say @michaelmarmot.bsky.social and @jessjallen.bsky.social #AllforEquity www.bmj.com/content/389/...

07.05.2025 06:57 β€” πŸ‘ 42    πŸ” 17    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 1
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New @who.int global report reveals nearly 20 after Commission on the Social Determinants of Health, social justice continues to kill on a grand scale @marmotihe.bsky.social @sudhvir.bsky.social #AllforEquity bit.ly/3SdE4lo

06.05.2025 06:59 β€” πŸ‘ 12    πŸ” 6    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 2
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Chaos under Trump: on tariffs, health and inequalities Introduction: After United States President Donald Trump's so-called Liberation Day unleashed chaos and uncertainty upon the world, the nature and

Tariffs introduced by the United States are likely to widen inequalities within and between countries, and have wide-ranging harmful consequences for health explains @michaelmarmot.bsky.social
www.croakey.org/chaos-under-...

11.04.2025 07:12 β€” πŸ‘ 12    πŸ” 6    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Chaos under Trump: on tariffs, health and inequalities Introduction: After United States President Donald Trump's so-called Liberation Day unleashed chaos and uncertainty upon the world, the nature and

Tariffs introduced by the United States are likely to widen inequalities within and between countries, and have wide-ranging harmful consequences for health @marmotihe.bsky.social
www.croakey.org/chaos-under-...

11.04.2025 07:16 β€” πŸ‘ 7    πŸ” 4    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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A privilege to join APPP Creative Health, on the importance of creativity in preventing ill health w @ashleydaltonmp.bsky.social @michaelmarmot.bsky.social David Tovey & more
Powerful egs of creativity’s impact on lives, the role of arts in change & communicating abt health
Thanks @ncch.bsky.social

28.03.2025 16:13 β€” πŸ‘ 7    πŸ” 3    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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πŸ“ŒThree days to go until the LSE Health Annual Lecture with
@michaelmarmot.bsky.social, Director of @marmotihe.bsky.social
β€˜Social justice and health equity'

πŸ“… Monday 17 March, 6:30pm- 8:00pm
ℹ️ Find out more tinyurl.com/44x4emxx

πŸ“LSE Campus & Online, register via tinyurl.com/yhex87h6

14.03.2025 13:55 β€” πŸ‘ 10    πŸ” 6    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 1

We were in Kings Lynn yesterday for the launch of Kings Lynn & West Norfolk as a Marmot place! We kickstarted the day with talks from Sir Michael Marmot and Jessica Allen. #health

13.03.2025 10:17 β€” πŸ‘ 7    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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New report reveals over a million premature deaths in England tied to poverty, austerity, and covid - Race Equality Foundation A new report published today by the Institute of Health […]

β€œLifestyle choices” don’t kill
It’s about poverty, which limits a person’s ability to make meaningful choices
You, & these researchers, push outdated behaviourist (Thatcherite) solutions, ignoring the systems & contexts in which people live
You are gaslighting the poor
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19.02.2025 11:40 β€” πŸ‘ 15    πŸ” 4    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Interesting snippet from Get In, the story of Labour under Starmer, on how the PM in opposition was impressed with Marmot’s work on health inequalities and wanted it to shape Labour’s programme @patrickmaguire.bsky.social @michaelmarmot.bsky.social

24.02.2025 13:17 β€” πŸ‘ 8    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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New collaboration to tackle health inequalities launches in Scotland Director of UCL’s Institute of Health Equity (IHE) Professor Sir Michael Marmot will be working with Public Health Scotland (PHS) and councils in three areas of Scotland to reduce health inequalities.

Our new partnership with Public Health Scotland joins the around 50 Marmot Places working to promote health equity across the UK @michaelmarmot.bsky.social www.ucl.ac.uk/news/2025/fe...

25.02.2025 17:21 β€” πŸ‘ 30    πŸ” 13    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 1
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An honour to catch up with our @healthworks.bsky.social Patron, @michaelmarmot.bsky.social, as he launched Newcastle as a #MarmotCity at Newcastle City Council. A fantastic opportunity to take bold steps towards reducing health inequalitie and building a fairer, healthier future for Newcastle.

26.02.2025 12:14 β€” πŸ‘ 9    πŸ” 3    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
Bold new collaboration to tackle health inequalities launches in three local areas in Scotland - News - Public Health Scotland The Collaboration for Health Equity in Scotland launches plans to bring about significant change to reduce health inequalities in three of Scotland’s local authority areas - Aberdeen City, North Ayrsh...

Delighted to announce our new @marmotihe.bsky.social collaboration with Public Health Scotland and three local areas publichealthscotland.scot/news/2025/fe...

24.02.2025 11:24 β€” πŸ‘ 16    πŸ” 5    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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Few highlights from @rcpsych.bsky.social NI residential this week, time together being educated, entertained & exercised! Launched our strategy #TimeToBridgeTheGaps addressing the workforce crisis. Thrilled to be joined by @michaelmarmot.bsky.social @derektracy.bsky.social @drladesmith.bsky.social

31.01.2025 16:23 β€” πŸ‘ 6    πŸ” 3    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Building fairer towns, cities and regions: Insights from Marmot Places This report highlights the innovative and collaborative work of councils and their partners, who have embraced the Marmot principles and turned them into meaningful action.

The β€˜transfrormational’ work of over 50 Marmot places in the UK tackling health inequalities. The Local Government Association reports @michaelmarmot.bsky.social

05.02.2025 08:31 β€” πŸ‘ 6    πŸ” 5    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Important new @local.gov.uk report on progress by councils in tackling health inequalities by addressing the social determinants of health through the β€˜Marmot Eight’ principles, featuring Marmot Place case studies & underlines need for national leadership

05.02.2025 07:54 β€” πŸ‘ 16    πŸ” 17    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 1

The UK's only truly affordable housing - our social homes - has been decimated by the right-to-buy scheme.

We found that 40% of homes bought under the scheme are now owned by private landlords, exacerbating the housing crisis - in @theguardian.com today

www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

15.01.2025 10:32 β€” πŸ‘ 27    πŸ” 22    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 1
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Tonight with Andrew Marr 14/01 | Watch Again You can watch Tuesday's Tonight With Andrew Marr in full here.

β€œDon’t use terms like ruthless cuts if that means making poor people poorer and please don’t go back to austerity” @michaelmarmot.bsky.social tells @andrewmarr.bsky.social

www.lbc.co.uk/radio/presen...

15.01.2025 08:14 β€” πŸ‘ 12    πŸ” 9    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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β€˜Hotel of mum and dad’ in UK at its fullest in two decades, study finds Almost a fifth of adults aged 24-34 are living with parents, particularly young men and those in areas of high-cost housing

www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

11.01.2025 13:50 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 3    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

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