Chair: Peter Hay, Turning Point Chair
Guest speaker: Director of the Institute of Health Equity, Professor Sir Michael Marmot

Sir Michael Marmot is Professor of Epidemiology at University College London, Director of the UCL Institute of Health Equity (IHE), and Past President of the World Medical Association and the BMA. At the request of the British Government, he conducted the Strategic Review of Health Inequalities in England, which published its landmark report Fair Society, Healthy Lives (also known as the Marmot Review) in February 2010. Professor Marmot and his team at the IHE have been commissioned by cities and regions to bring their evidence-based approach to health equity into action at local level. Now, 40+ communities in England and Wales have declared themselves as acting on Marmot principles.