The impact of inequality
on health within and across countries
12 Noon, Thu March 28th
Rubendall Recital Hall, Weiss Center
Richard Wilkinson presents the annual Morgan Lecture. The title is
“Inequality: The Enemy Between Us?”
“Since before the French
Revolution, many people have believed that inequality is divisive and socially
corrosive. Now that we have data allowing us to compare inequality within
countries, we find that this intuition is more true than we thought. Countries
like the USA, with relatively large income gaps between rich and poor, suffer
much more from a wide range of social ills.”
Professor Wilkinson has played a formative role
in international research on the social determinants of health and on the
societal effects of income inequality. He studied economic history at the
London School of Economics before training in epidemiology. He is professor
emeritus of social epidemiology at the University of Nottingham Medical School,
honorary professor at University College London and a visiting professor at the
University of York. He is co-founder of The Equality Trust.