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When COVID-19 first appeared in the UK in early 2020, it entered a society already facing growing health inequalities, where life expectancy was falling in some areas of the country. The virus and the measures put in place to suppress it have exposed and exacerbated these inequalities, taking a disproportionate toll on groups including some ethnic minority communities and those in deprived areas.

In this hour-long episode supported by the Health Foundation, Professor Sir Michael Marmot will chair a discussion looking at the evidence of inequality in the pandemic, the measures used to tackle it, and the action required going forward to level health outcomes in the UK.

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As we enter the first winter living with Covid-19 following mass vaccination, this extended programme from the COVID-19 Series will look at where things currently stand. We will focus on three main areas, vaccines, variants and infection, with Professor Dame Sarah Gilbert, Professor Sharon Peacock and Professor Sarah Walker. 

Geneticist and cell biologist, Director of The Francis Crick Institute, and 2001 Nobel Prize winner in Physiology or Medicine, Sir Paul Nurse, will be joining Professor Roger Kirby, RSM President, for a conversation about his career, his personal life and an unexpected family revelation that uncovered his true genetic origins, his new book “What is Life?” and what is means to be alive, and his experience and scientific views on the COVID-19 pandemic and being a Chief Scientific advisor for the European Union.

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Professor Dame Parveen Kumar, Emerita Professor of Medicine and Education Barts and the London School of Medicine Queen Mary University, will be joining Professor Roger Kirby, RSM President, for a conversation about her career in medicine and education in this country and abroad, her educational and research roles, her strive to encourage women in medicine, her work in addressing inequalities, climate change and air pollution, and her work with various charities.

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Award-winning historian, biographer and broadcaster, Tom Holland, will be joining Professor Sir Simon Wessely, RSM immediate Past-President, for a conversation about his career, how he came to write his recent book Dominion: The Making of the Western Mind, which has been hugely praised and described as “completely transforms your understanding of the world”. Tom will also be talking about his process and research when writing historically correct biographies, and how historical pandemics compare to COVID-19.

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