Health sector urged to step up and engage with welfare reform debate and processes
At the start of his most recent Boyer Lecture, Professor Sir Michael Marmot asked: “What do Tanzania, Paraguay, Latvia and the top 25 earning hedge fund managers in the US have in common?” “... Read more
Bubup Wilam: will this model of Aboriginal empowerment really fall through the funding cracks?
The vital importance of investing in early childhood development in order to reduce health inequalities has been underscored by the second Boyer Lecture, recently delivered by World Medical... Read more
A toast to Sir Michael Marmot and his latest book
Sir Michael Marmot, who was recently in Australia to deliver the ABC’s 2016 Boyer lectures is one of University of Sydney Medical School’s most distinguished alumni. So wrote Emeritus... Read more
MarmotOz: prize tweets and prized SDOH conversations to mark Boyer Lectures
The #MarmotOz verdict is in! Congratulations to University of Melbourne public health professor Anne Kavanagh who has won Croakey’s #MarmotOz tweet of the week (see below). It was a to... Read more
Come join me in fantasyland – Marmot’s first Boyer Lecture
“Come and join me in my fantasyland and let’s seek a more just society” declared World Medical Association president Sir Michael Marmot, launching what promises to be a captivati... Read more
To mark MarmotOz and the Boyer Lectures, Croakey launches an SDOH compilation – get your free copy here
To mark the historic occasion of Professor Sir Michael Marmot delivering the Boyer Lectures and putting a renewed public focus on the social determinants of health and health inequalities, C... Read more
Fantasyland or a Fair Go? Michael Marmot on QandA
‘The opposite of poverty is not wealth, it’s justice’. So began Sir Michael Marmot’s spirited defence of fairness on Q&A Monday night ahead of his inaugural Boyer... Read more
A role for all doctors in Closing the Gap
It’s been ten years since Australia’s Close the Gap campaign was launched, calling for an end to inequalities in life expectancy and other indicators for Aboriginal and Torres St... Read more