UK public health expert Sir Michael Marmot criticises No 10 race report ‘shortcomings’

Sir Michael Marmot says racial disparities report underplays impact of structural racism in health outcomes

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An inquiry into racial disparities used outdated references and notably underplayed the impact of structural racism in health outcomes, the UK's leading authority on public health has said, in a new blow to the credibility of the much-criticised report.

Sir Michael Marmot, who led a pioneering work into health inequalities in 2010, updated a decade later, said that while there was much that is good" in the report's chapter on public health, he was concerned about shortcomings" in its approach.