Marmot Review

Dear Stakeholder,

Last week, Professor Sir Michael Marmot was appointed President of the British Medical Association (BMA). His term will run from June 2010 to June 2011. In this role he will continue to champion tackling health inequalities through the social determinants with particular emphasis on developing the role of the workforce in reducing health inequalities.

Appearing on a number of BBC programmes on Friday morning, Professor Marmot responded to the National Audit Office's report on health inequalities (which was published last week) explaining why health inequalities are not narrowing. Listen to Michael's interview with the BBC Today programme here .

The new website is now online and can be found at www.marmotreview.org . Here you will find all the information previously available on the old websites, as well as pages about our present and past activities and events, press releases, and news coverage. Presentations from the launch conference are available on the website, and graphs from the report can be found on the Presentations page as well. There is also a section on the European Review, still in its early stages.

The website should enable us to more easily interact with stakeholders and anyone else interested in the issue of health inequalities. We would like to hear from you about any interventions, activities or strategies you are implementing locally, and how they are going. This will help us to develop more of an idea of what works.

We would be grateful if you could forward this information to interested colleagues and relevant networks.

Kind Regards,

Ellen

Ellen Bloomer

Research Fellow

The Marmot Review