Speech extract by Professor Sir Michael Marmot.

Speech extract by Professor Sir Michael Marmot.


Part of the National Centre for Creative Health and the All-Party Parliamentary Group on Arts, Health and Wellbeing Launch of the Creative Health Review, live streamed on December 6th 2023, 4-6pm, from Science Gallery, King's College London.


Watch the full launch recording here -    • Creative Health Review Report Launch  

Professor Sir Michael Marmot has been Professor of Epidemiology at University College London since 1985. 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. Professor Marmot is the Advisor to the WHO Director-General, on social determinants of health, in the new WHO Division of Healthier Populations, and is the recipient of the WHO Global Hero Award. At the request of the British Government, he conducted the Strategic Review of Health Inequalities in England post 2010, which published its report 'Fair Society, Healthy Lives' in February 2010. This was followed by the European Review of Social Determinants of Health and the Health Divide, for WHO EURO in 2014, and in 2020, Health Equity in England: Marmot Review 10 Years On. In 2000, he was knighted by Her Majesty The Queen, for services to epidemiology and the understanding of health inequalities.


About the Creative Health Review Report Launch


The Chair of the Commission, Lord Howarth of Newport CBE, and Commissioners including Professor Sir Michael Marmot, Monty Don OBE, Baroness Lola Young of Hornsey OBE, Professor Martin Marshall CBE, James Sanderson, Rob Webster CBE, and Alice Wiseman spoke at the launch, and members of our Lived Experience panel talked about their personal experience of how creativity and cultural activities have benefitted their health and wellbeing. Professor Richard Trembath, representing King’s College London and King’s Health Partners, joined to reflect on the importance placed on Creative Health across the University and local health system and some early findings of the major SHAPER initiative. Also, we enjoyed poetry and music by artists from Breathe Arts Health Research.


Full Agenda and Biographies - https://ncch.org.uk/uploads/Creative-...


About the Creative Health Review


The National Centre for Creative Health and the All-Party Parliamentary Group on Arts, Health and Wellbeing launched a Creative Health Review on 13th October 2022 and held a series of themed roundtables between Autumn 2022 and Spring 2023.


The Creative Health Review highlights the potential for creative health to help tackle pressing issues in health, social care and more widely, including health inequalities and recovery from COVID-19. It demonstrates that creativity is not just a nice to have, but fundamental to individuals, communities and systems.

It supports people to live well for longer, reducing the pressure on health and social care systems and contributing to a healthy and prosperous society.

The Review makes recommendations to Government and Metro Mayors for a cross-departmental strategy on creative health, which will support creative health to flourish and maximise its potential across key policy areas.


More about the Creative Health Review - https://ncch.org.uk/creative-health-r...