icuh2014.com is happy to announce the Professor of Epidemiology and Public Health at University College London (UCL) and Fellow of the English Faculty of Public Health Medicine, Professor Sir Michael Marmot as a special guest speaker at the conference next March (4th – 7th).

Professor Marmot was born in London but moved to Sydney where he attended Sydney Boys High School and eventually graduated in medicine in 1965 from the University of Sydney. He went on to achieve an MPH and a PHD from the University of California, Berkley.

As well as his role at UCL, Professor Marmot has been involved in some ground breaking studies of heart disease and strokes comparing people in Japan (high stroke rates, low heart attack rates) with those in Hawaii and California. More recently he led the Whitehall studies of British civil servants which focused again on heart disease and other disease patterns, this work inspired the American documentary, ‘Unnatural Causes: Is Inequality Making Us Sick?’ a series that examined the social determinants of health.

He has a particular interest in health inequalities and why they are caused and he is the government’s official advisor on how to identify and mitigate them. He served on the Scientific Advisory Group of the Independent Inquiry into Inequalities in Health chaired by former UK Chief Medical Officer, Sir Donald Acheson.

Professor Marmot was knighted by Her Majesty The Queen in 2002, for services to epidemiology and the understanding of health inequalities. Internationally acclaimed, Professor Marmot is a Foreign Associate Member of the Institute of Medicine (IOM), and a former Vice President of the Academia Europaea. He won the Balzan Prize for Epidemiology in 2004, gave the Harveian Oration in 2006, and won the William B. Graham Prize for Health Services Research in 2008.