Event 16.09.2020

Sir Roger Jowell Memorial Lecture 2020: Social justice and health equity

16 September 2020, 5.45pm - 7.15pm

Speaker: Professor Sir Michael G. Marmot MBBS, MPH, PhD, FRCP, FFPHM, FMedSci, FBA, Director of the Institute of Health Equity (UCL Department of Epidemiology & Public Health)

Chair: Caroline Costongs, Director of EuroHealthNet

Taking action to reduce health inequalities is a matter of social justice. In developing strategies for tackling health inequalities we need to confront the social gradient in health not just the difference between the worst off and everybody else. There is clear evidence when we look across countries that national policies make a difference and that much can be done in cities, towns and local areas. But policies and interventions must not be confined to the health care system; they need to address the conditions in which people are born, grow, live, work and age. The evidence shows that economic circumstances are important but are not the only drivers of health inequalities. Tackling the health gap will take action, based on sound evidence, across the whole of society.

City, University of London, NatCen Social Research and the Social Research Association are hosting the Sir Roger Jowell Memorial Lecture 2020.

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