MICHAEL MARMOT
The Status Syndrome:
How Social Standing Affects Our Health and Longevity
Times Books/Henry Holt (US), Bloomsbury (UK), 2004
Sir Michael Marmot is Professor of Epidemiology and Public Health and Director of the International Centre for Health and Society at University College London. He is also Adjunct Professor of Health and Social Behavior at the Harvard School of Public Health. He has a medical degree from the University of Sydney and a PhD in epidemiology from the University of California Berkeley. He is a Fellow of the Faculty of Public Health Medicine and a Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians. He was elected as a founding fellow of the Academy of Medical Science (FMedSci.). In 2002 he was elected to Foreign Associate Membership of the Institute of Medicine.
He is Principal Investigator of the Whitehall studies of British civil servants, and Principal Investigator of the English Longitudinal Study of Ageing. Together with the National Centre for Social Research, the International Centre for Health and Society conducts the Health Surveys for England and Scotland.
He has served on numerous national and international committees, including the Chief Medical Officer’s Committee on Medical Aspects of Food Policy and of the Chief Medical Officer’s Working Group on “Our Healthier Nation.” He served on the Scientific Advisory Group of the Independent Inquiry into Health Inequalities chaired by Sir Donald Acheson, which reported in November 1998. He has coordinated two European Research networks, and was joint coordinator of the European Science Foundation network on inequalities in healthy life expectancy. He has been a member of two research networks of the Chicago-based MacArthur Foundation, and a member of the Canadian Institute of Advanced Research Population Research programme. He chaired the Ontario Institute for Work and Health Research Advisory Committee. He was a member of the Royal Commission on Environmental Pollution. He was a member of the National Research Council (National Academy of Science) Panel on a Research Agenda and New Data for an Aging World and a member of the National Research Council Committee on the Health and Safety Needs of Older Workers.
He has given a number of named lectures and keynote lectures over the last several years. He has published over 500 scientific papers, has authored and co-edited a number of books. He is the author of ‘The Status Syndrome’ published in 2004 by Holt (US) and Bloomsbury (UK).
His work has been widely reported in the media: in the national newspapers, radio and television in Britain and Australia. In the USA, his work has been written about in the New York Times, Washington Post, New York Review of Books and has been aired on National Public Radio.
In the New Year’s Honours list 2000, he was knighted by Her Majesty the Queen “For services to Epidemiology and Understanding Health Inequalities.”
