Professor Sir MICHAEL MARMOT (24 June 2020)

Recomendado pela AMICOR Maria Inês Reinert Azambuja

Keynote Speaker EPC 2020

We are delighted to announce that Professor Sir MICHAEL MARMOT will give the Opening Keynote Speech of the European Population Conference.

Sir Michael Marmot has been Professor of Epidemiology at University College London since 1985.  He is the author of The Health Gap: the challenge of an unequal world (Bloomsbury: 2015), and Status Syndrome: how your place on the social gradient directly affects your health (Bloomsbury: 2004). Professor Marmot is the Advisor to the WHO Director-General, on social determinants of health, in the new WHO Division of Healthier Populations. He takes up a Distinguished Visiting Professorship at Chinese University of Hong Kong in 2019, and is the recipient of the WHO Global Hero Award.

His keynote speech at the Opening Ceremony on 24 June 2020 will focus on Social Justice and Health Equity.

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