Sir Michael Marmot has been a professor of epidemiology at University College London since 1985 and is the adviser to the World Health Organization director-general on social determinants of health in the new WHO Division of Healthier Populations. He is the author of “The Health Gap: The Challenge of an Unequal World” and “Status Syndrome: How Your Place on the Social Gradient Directly Affects Your Health.” Marmot was the recipient of the WHO Global Hero Award and the Prince Mahidol Award for Public Health 2015. He chaired the Commission on Equity and Health Inequalities in the Americas, set up in 2015 by the WHO’s Pan-American Health Organization, and also served as chair of the Commission on Social Determinants of Health, which produced the report entitled “Closing the Gap in a Generation.” At the request of the British government, he conducted the strategic review of health inequalities in England post-2010. This was followed by the “European Review of Social Determinants of Health and the Health Divide,” for WHO-Europe in 2014. Marmot chaired the expert panel for the World Cancer Research Fund/American Institute for Cancer Research 2007 report “Food, Nutrition, Physical Activity and the Prevention of Cancer: A Global Perspective.” He served as president of the British Medical Association in 2010-2011, and as president of the World Medical Association in 2015. He is president of the British Lung Foundation, an honorary fellow of the American College of Epidemiology, a fellow of the Academy of Medical Sciences, an honorary fellow of the British Academy and an honorary fellow of the Faculty of Public Health of the Royal College of Physicians. He was a member of the Royal Commission on Environmental Pollution for six years, and in 2000 he was knighted by Her Majesty The Queen for services to epidemiology and the understanding of health inequalities. Marmot is a member of the National Academy of Medicine.