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  • 2015 - Prince Mahidol Award
  • 2004 - Bisset Hawkins Medal, Royal College of Physicians of London
  • 2004 - International Balzan Prize
  • 2002 - Member of the National Academy of Medicine (NAM)
  • 1995 - Member of Academia Europaea
  • Fellow of The Academy of Medical Sciences, United Kingdom
  • Fellow of The Academy of Medical Sciences, United Kingdom
  • Fellow of The Academy of Medical Sciences, United Kingdom

Overview

Michael Marmot is affiliated with University College London in the United Kingdom. Their research primarily focuses on health professions and social sciences, with notable contributions in subfields such as general health professions, health, clinical psychology, organizational behavior and human resource management, and finance.

The main research topics covered by Marmot include:

  • Health disparities and outcomes
  • Employment and Welfare Studies
  • Global Public Health Policies and Epidemiology
  • Global Health Care Issues
  • Healthcare Systems and Reforms
  • COVID-19 and Mental Health
  • Migration, Health and Trauma

Marmot has published extensively in several academic venues, with frequent publications in:

  • BMJ
  • The Lancet
  • Revista Panamericana de Salud Pública
  • Journal of Epidemiology & Community Health
  • International Journal for Equity in Health

Among recent papers authored or co-authored by Marmot, key publications include:

  • Health equity in England: the Marmot review 10 years on, 2020, BMJ
  • COVID-19: exposing and amplifying inequalities, 2020, Journal of Epidemiology & Community Health

Other notable co-authors frequently collaborating with Marmot are:

  • Jean Woo
  • Gary Ka-Ki Chung
  • Roger Yat-Nork Chung
  • Jessica Allen
  • Eng-Kiong Yeoh

Their work has been recognized with various awards, including:

  • Prince Mahidol Award, 2015
  • Bisset Hawkins Medal, Royal College of Physicians of London, 2004
  • International Balzan Prize, 2004
  • Member of the National Academy of Medicine (NAM), 2002
  • Member of Academia Europaea, 1995
  • Fellow of The Academy of Medical Sciences, United Kingdom

Best Publications

  • Intensive blood-glucose control with sulphonylureas or insulin compared with conventional treatment and risk of complications in patients with type 2 diabetes (UKPDS 33)

    R C Turner;R R Holman;C A Cull;I M Stratton

  • Social determinants of health inequalities

    Michael Marmot

  • Closing the gap in a generation: health equity through action on the social determinants of health

    Michael Marmot;Sharon Friel;Ruth Bell;Tanja Aj Houweling

  • Health inequalities among British civil servants: the Whitehall II study

    M.G. Marmot;S. Stansfeld;C. Patel;F. North

  • Fair society, healthy lives

    M. Marmot;R. Bell

  • Social Determinants of Health: The Solid Facts

    Richard G. Wilkinson;M. G. Marmot

  • The benefits and harms of breast cancer screening: an independent review

    M G Marmot;D G Altman;D A Cameron;J A Dewar

  • Food, Nutrition, Physical Activity, and the Prevention of Cancer: a Global Perspective

    M Marmot;T Atinmo;T Byers;J Chen

  • The measurement of effort-reward imbalance at work: European comparisons.

    Johannes Siegrist;Dagmar Starke;Tarani Chandola;Isabelle Godin

  • Adolescence and the social determinants of health

    Russell M. Viner;Elizabeth M. Ozer;Simon Denny;Michael Marmot

  • New genetic loci implicated in fasting glucose homeostasis and their impact on type 2 diabetes risk

    Josée Dupuis;Josée Dupuis;Claudia Langenberg;Inga Prokopenko;Richa Saxena;Richa Saxena

  • The Status Syndrome: How Social Standing Affects Our Health and Longevity

    Michael Marmot

  • Genetic variants in novel pathways influence blood pressure and cardiovascular disease risk

    Georg B. Ehret;Georg B. Ehret;Georg B. Ehret;Patricia B. Munroe;Kenneth M. Rice;Murielle Bochud

  • New genetic loci implicated in fasting glucose homeostasis and their impact on type 2 diabetes risk (vol 42, pg 105, 2010)

    J Dupuis;C Langenberg;I Prokopenko;R Saxena

  • Inequalities in death--specific explanations of a general pattern?

    M.G. Marmot;M.J. Shipley;Geoffrey Rose

  • Relation of central obesity and insulin resistance with high diabetes prevalence and cardiovascular risk in South Asians.

    P.M. McKeigue;B. Shah;M.G. Marmot

  • Fair society, healthy lives : the Marmot Review : strategic review of health inequalities in England post-2010.

    Marmot M;Allen J;Goldblatt P;Boyce T

  • Intersalt: An international study of electrolyte excretion and blood pressure. Results for 24 hour urinary sodium and potassium excretion

    G. Rose;J. Stamler;R. Stamler;P. Elliott

  • CHILD DEVELOPMENTAL RISK-FACTORS FOR ADULT SCHIZOPHRENIA IN THE BRITISH 1946 BIRTH COHORT

    P Jones;B Rodgers;R Murray;M Marmot

  • Erratum: New genetic loci implicated in fasting glucose homeostasis and their impact on type 2 diabetes risk (Nature Genetics (2010) 42 (105-116))

    Josée Dupuis;Claudia Langenberg;Inga Prokopenko;Richa Saxena

Frequent Co-Authors

Mika Kivimäki
Mika Kivimäki University College London
Martin J. Shipley
Martin J. Shipley University College London
Eric J. Brunner
Eric J. Brunner University College London
Martin Bobak
Martin Bobak University College London
Jane E. Ferrie
Jane E. Ferrie University College London
Meena Kumari
Meena Kumari University of Essex
Jussi Vahtera
Jussi Vahtera Turku University Hospital
Pekka Martikainen
Pekka Martikainen University of Helsinki
George Davey Smith
George Davey Smith University of Bristol

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