Martin McKee CBE MD DSc MSc FRCP(L) FRCP(Ed) FRCPI FFPH FMedSci
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Professor of European Public Health
5-17 Tavistock Place, London
WC1H 9SH, United Kingdom
Tel: +44 20 7927 2229
Fax: +44 20 7927 2701
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Affiliated to:
HSRP.
Disciplines: Demography, Epidemiology, Policy analysis. Research areas: Health care financing, Health policy, Health sector development, Health systems, Tobacco control. Other keywords: health and transition, eastern europe, former Soviet Union, MARCH. |
BackgroundI qualified in medicine in Belfast, Northern Ireland, with subsequent training in internal medicine and public health. As Professor of European Public Health at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine I co-direct the European Centre on Health of Societies in Transition (ECOHOST), a WHO Collaborating Centre that comprises the largest team of researchers working on health and health policy in central and eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union. I am also research director of the European Observatory on Health Systems and Policies, a unique partnership of universities, national and regional governments, and international agencies. I have published over 460 scientific papers and 30 books. I was an editor of the European Journal of Public Health for 15 years and am a member of numerous editorial boards, as well as being an editorial consultant to The Lancet. I have been invited to give many endowed lectures, including the Milroy Lecture (Royal College of Physicians) and Cochrane Lecture (UK Society for Social Medicine). I sit on a number of advisory boards in Europe and North America, in both the public and private sectors. I am a Fellow of the Royal Colleges of Physicians of London, Edinburgh, and Ireland and the UK Faculty of Public Health and chair of the UK Society for Social Medicine. My contributions to European health policy have been recognised by, among others, election to the UK Academy of Medical Sciences, the Romanian Academy of Medical Sciences, and the US Institute of Medicine, by the award of honorary doctorates from Hungary, The Netherlands and Sweden, and visiting professorships at the Universities of Zagreb and Belgrade. In 2003 I was awarded the Andrija Stampar medal for contributions to European public health and in 2005 was made a Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) by HM Queen Elizabeth II. If you want to know what European Public Health actually is, you can listen to a lecture I gave on this topic at the University of Maastricht, or read my blog! TeachingI am responsible for a course on issues in public health, taught in the autumn term. This course seeks to show that public health can actually be exciting and stimulating. It is intended for people who want to make the world a better, and fairer place to live in. It uses problem based learning and is based on real life issues, such as gun control, discrimination, and challenging vested interests. It is not for those who see public health as a way to a quiet life! ResearchMy main research foci are health determinants (especially social change, alcohol, tobacco and nutrition), health system performance, and the relationship between health and the economy. Selected publications
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