Speakers

OPENING AND CLOSING THE CONFERENCE

Kamila has been a GP in South Wales for 31 years, and a GP for 37 years, having qualified
from Somerville College, Oxford in 1984, and completed her GP training in Nottingham in 1988. She grew up in Dar-Es-Salaam, Tanzania. Prior to arriving in South Wales, she was a GP partner in practices in Nottingham and Manchester. She is the immediate past Chair of the Royal College of GPs, having demitted office at the end of November 2025. She is on the Trustee Boards of the Kings Fund, and Moondance Cancer Initiative, the Chair of Trustee Board for two charities, the National Academy of Social Prescribing, and Pathway (health inclusion for homeless people). She is the patron of Health Literacy UK. She is also a Bevan Commissioner and a Fellow of the Learned Society of Wales.

Her research and clinical working interests have been in health inequalities and access to health services, (her MD was based on link-worker-led culturally appropriate health education for BAME patient groups with Type 2 diabetes in Nottingham, Manchester and Cardiff). With wide experience of general practice and running community projects in diabetes and heart disease, she has been named ‘GP of the Year’ twice, Woman of the Year 2024 at the GG2 Leadership and Diversity Awards and was awarded an MBE in 2017 for services to General Practice. She has been an MRCGP Examiner for 26 years, and has worked in senior roles at Cardiff University (2002 – 2015), and the University of Surrey (2015-2018). More recently, she has been Head of the Graduate Entry Medicine programme at Swansea University (2019-2022).

KEYNOTE SPEAKER

Health Literacy UK (HLUK) is delighted to announce that Professor Sir Michael Marmot CH, Director of the UCL Institute of Health Equity and Professor of Epidemiology and Public Health at University College London (UCL), will be the Keynote Speaker at the HLUK Conference on 4 March 2027.

Sir Michael Marmot has been Professor of Epidemiology at University College London since 1985, and is Director of the UCL Institute of Health Equity. He is the author of The Health Gap: the challenge of an unequal world (Bloomsbury: 2015), and Status Syndrome (Bloomsbury: 2004). Professor Marmot was a Distinguished Visiting Professor at Chinese University of Hong Kong (2019-2024), and co-Director of the of the CUHK Institute of Health Equity. He is the recipient of the WHO Global Hero Award; the Harvard Lown Professorship (2014-2017); the Prince Mahidol Award for Public Health (2015), and 21 honorary doctorates. Marmot has led research groups on health inequalities for nearly 50 years. He chaired the WHO Commission on Social Determinants of Health, several WHO Regional Commissions, and reviews on tackling health inequality for governments in the UK. He served as President of the British Medical Association (BMA) in 2010-2011, and as President of the World Medical Association in 2015. He is President of the Asthma + Lung UK. He is a Fellow of the
Academy of Medical Sciences and Honorary Fellow of the American College of Epidemiology and of the Faculty of Public Health; an Honorary Fellow of the British Academy; and of the Royal Colleges of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, Psychiatry, Paediatrics and Child Health, and General Practitioners. He is an elected member of the US National Academy of Medicine, the National Academy of Medicine of Mexico and the Brazilian Academy of Medicine. He was knighted by Her Majesty The Queen, for services to epidemiology and the understanding of health inequalities. He was appointed a Companion of Honour in recognition of his services to public health in the King’s 2023 New Year Honours.

At the HLUK Conference 2027, Sir Michael will share his insights on reducing health inequalities, creating healthier communities, and the critical role that health literacy plays in improving health outcomes and promoting equity. His keynote address will provide an inspiring and thought-provoking perspective for healthcare professionals, policymakers, researchers, educators, and community leaders committed to advancing health literacy.