Michael Marmot
Research Interests
Professor Marmot heads a research group of about 120 people investigating the epidemiology and prevention of cardiovascular disease with a particular focus on alcohol, nutrition, and social, economic and cultural determinants of disease. He is the principal investigator of the Whitehall studies of British civil servants and co-principal investigator of the Health Surveys for England and Scotland. New research initiatives include investigating social gradients in health in the Japanese, causes of East-West differences in coronary heart disease, and pursuing an initiative on psychological triggers of biological pathways of disease.- Professor of Epidemiology and Public Health, Royal Free and University College Medical School, London, 1985-present
- Director, International Centre for Health and Society, University College London, 1994-present
- Honorary Consultant, Camden & Islington Health Authority, London, 1985-present
- Fellow of the Faculty of Public Health Medicine, Royal College of Physicians, London, 1989
- Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians, London 1996
Education
- MB BS University of Sydney, Australia (awarded with honours)
- MPH University of California, Berkeley
- PhD University of California, Berkeley
- Marmot MG. Improvement of social environment to improve health. Geoffrey Rose memorial lecture. Lancet 1998:351(9095):57-60.
- Bobak M, Pikhart H, Hertzman C, Rose R, Marmot M. Socioeconomic factors, perceived control and self-reported health in Russia. A cross-sectional survey. Soc Sci Med1998:47:269-279.
- Brunner, E.J., Shipley, M.J., Blane, D., Davey Smith, G., and Marmot, M.G. Past and present socioeconomic circumstances and cardiovascular risk factors in adulthood. J Epid Comm Health 1999:53: 757-764.
- Nicholson, A.C., White, I.R., Macfarlane, P.W., Brunner, E.J., and Marmot, M.G. Why do women report more angina than men? Analyses from the Whitehall II study. J.Clin.Epidemiol. 52:337-346, 1999.
- Martikainen, P., Stansfeld, S., Hemingway, H., and Marmot, M. Determinants of socioeconomic differences in change in SF-36 physical and mental functioning: the Whitehall II study. Social Science & Medicine 49: 499-507, 1999
- Marmot MG. The importance of psychosocial factors in the workplace to the development of disease. In Social determinants of health edited by Marmot MG and Wilkinson RG. New York: Oxford University Press. 1999.
