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Sir Michael Marmot, PhD, MPH, MBBS, FRCP, FFPHM, FMedSci, is chair of the World Health Organization’s Commission on Social Determinants of Health, which was launched in March 2005 and brings together some of the world’s leading scientists and practitioners to address the social conditions that shape people’s health links of london bracelets. In late August, the commission released a new report, “Closing the Gap in a Generation: Health Equity Through Action on the Social Determinants of Health, ” which found that “social injustice is killing people on a grand scale. ” Marmot will keynote the opening session of APHAs 136th Annual Meeting in San Diego this month and will appear at the Public Health Expo at a 2:30 p.m. book signing the same day links of london bangles.

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How does your work with WHO’s Commission on Social Determinants of Health tie into this year’s Annual Meeting theme of “Public Health Without Borders”?

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