Australian audiences can hear a valuable series of weekly talks by the distinguished President of the World Medical Association (WMA), Professor Sir Michael Marmot. The first lecture is 'Health inequalities and the causes of the causes', and airs on Saturday 3 September at 1 pm. All four lectures will be available at the ABC's Boyer Lectures.
The annual Boyer Lectures, to be broadcast on ABC Radio National, will be the 57th of the 4-part weekly series prepared and delivered by distinguished people with a close Australian connection.
While born in England, Prof Marmot was schooled at Sydney Boys High, and later graduated from the medicine program at The University of Sydney. He is Director of the Institute of Health Equity, a leading researcher on health inequality issues for more than three decades, 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 was knighted for services to epidemiology and the understanding of health inequalities.
Sir Michael’s Boyer Lectures will explore the challenges faced by communities in solving issues around health inequality. The first 2016 Boyer Lecture will be delivered in Sydney on Thursday 1 September 2016, and broadcast on RN (FM frequency 96.9 in the NSW Northern Rivers).
Headed Fair Australia: Social Justice and the Health Gap, the lectures will be -
- Health inequalities and the causes of the causes
- Give every child the best start
- Living and working
- Social justice and health - making a difference
