Lecture, Barnard's Inn Hall, Thursday, 31 Oct 2024 - 18:00

The Health Gap: Achieving Social Justice in Public Health 

scales of justice with caduceus as middle shaft

Reducing health inequalities is a matter of social justice. Strategies must address the social gradient in health, and efforts should extend beyond healthcare to address the conditions in which people are born, grow, live, work, and age. This lecture argues economic circumstances, while important, are not the sole drivers of health inequalities, and closing the health gap will take evidence-based action across the whole of society.

Professor Sir Michael Marmot

Professor Sir Michael Marmot

Sir Michael Marmot has been Professor of Epidemiology at University College London since 1985, and is Director of the UCL Institute of Health Equity.  He...

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