Michael Marmot Passionately Delivers Yet Another Wake Up Call At Harvard About Inequalities In Health “Crisis”, “Calamity”, “Disaster” Are All Used To Describe Negative Changes In Life Expectancy Michael Marmot is Director of the Institute of Health Equality at the University College London Research Department of Epidemiology & Public Health and a well-known champion for social determinants of health. He delivered the annual Cutter Lecture in early May at the Harvard School of Public Health entitled “Social Justice, Health Equity, and the Social Determinants of Health.”
Life Expectancy As Index The cornerstone of Marmot’s cause for alarm described in the Lecture is the stall or fall in life expectancy in England in 2011 which until then had been increasing by one year every four years since the 1920’s. If you believe that health tells us something
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Judge Postpones Trial And Appoints Mediator In Glyphosate Litigation Recent jury trials on whether or not glyphosate causes non-Hodgkins lymphoma have rendered verdicts in favor of plaintiffs with multi-million or even billion dollar awards against Monsanto, the maker of the wellknown Round Up, a glyphosate-based weed killer. Now a federal judge in San Francisco has postponed a pending federal trial and appointed an experienced mediator to help resolve the dispute between the parties.
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According to the NY Times, that mediator is Kenneth Feinberg who has experience in mediating conflicts over the September 11th Victim Compensation Fund, the BP Deepwater Horizon oil spill, Volkswagen’s diesel emissions scandal, and the General Motors ignition switch litigation. It’s not clear what the judgment about the causal role of glyphosate, if any, will be. - Mediation cont'd on page 8 •
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