Dr Guy Marks
Research Interests:
Guy Marks is a respiratory physician and epidemiologist and a public health physician. He has led the Respiratory and Environmental Epidemiology group at the Woolcock since 1997. The major focus of his research interest is lung health with specific focus on airways disease, air pollution and tuberculosis. He also has a strong commitment to capacity building for lung health research.
Broad Research Areas:
Pulmonary Disease, Epidemiology
Qualifications:
BMedSc MB BS UNSW, PhD Syd, MRCP, FRACP, FAFPHM, FAHMS
Society Memberships & Professional Activities:
International Union Against Tuberculosis and Lung Disease, Thoracic Society of Australia and New Zealand, Australasian Epidemiological Association
Specific Research Keywords:
Epidemiology, Air Pollution, Asthma, TB, COPD
- Publications
- Media
- Grants
- Awards
- Research Activities
- Engagement
- Teaching and Supervision
|
Title |
Investigators |
Source |
Years |
Funds ($) |
|
Prevention of multi-drug resistant tuberculosis in a high prevalence setting: ‘Connecting the DOTS’ in Vietnam |
G Fox |
NHMRC Project Grant 1081443 |
2015 – 2019 |
$753,157 |
|
National Clinical Centre of Research Excellence in Severe Asthma |
P Gibson |
NHMRC Centre for Research Excellence 1078579 |
2015- 2019 |
$551,896 |
|
Multidimensional Assessment of the Health Impacts of Infrasound: Two Randomised Controlled Trials |
Guy Marks |
NHMRC Targeted Research Grant APP1113615
|
2016-2020 |
$902,263 |
|
Energy transitions, air pollution and health in Australia |
Guy Marks |
NHMRC Centre for Research Excellence 1116412 |
2017- |
$498,245 |
|
Development and validation of a latent tuberculosis diagnostic |
A. Kelleher |
NHMRC Development grant 1118550 |
2017- |
$534,865 |
|
An integrated health-sector strategy to combat COPD and asthma in Vietnam: A pragmatic stepped intervention cluster randomized trial |
G Fox |
NHMRC Global Alliance for Chronic Disease 1166020 |
2016 - 2021 |
$1,894,349 |
|
Air pollution and mortality and morbidity in adult Australians (APMMA Study): a large population based cohort study |
G Marks |
NHMRC Project Grant 1142222 |
2018-2020 |
$537,062 $254,747 $249,599 |
|
Improving Global Tuberculosis Control with the AuTuMN Platform |
J Trauer |
NHMRC Project grant 1144570 |
2018- |
$228,353 $213,353 $213,353 |
|
Combating the emergence and spread of antimicrobial resistant infectious diseases in Vietnam: the V-RESIST study |
G Fox |
NHMRC/DFAT International Joint Call IndoPacific Health Security App1153346 |
2018-2020 |
$855,356 $879,779 $740,627 |
- Alumni Award for Achievement, University of NSW. 1981
- Norman Rose Memorial Travelling Scholarship, Sydney Hospitallers, 1992
- Lillian Roxon Memorial Travel Grant, Asthma Foundation of Victoria, 1992
- Cottrell Fellowship, Royal Australasian College of Physicians, 1992.
- Travelling Fellowship, Asthma Foundation of NSW, 1992
- Rolf Edgar Lake Research Fellow, University of Sydney, 1997
- Medical Research Media Award, Research Australia, 2006
- Consultant Teacher of the Year award, Liverpool Hospital, 2007
- European Respiratory Society Visiting Professor, 2008
- Hall of Fame Award, Asthma Foundation of NSW, 2008
- Research Medal, Thoracic Society of Australia and New Zealand, 2010
- NHMRC Achievement Award for Top Ranked Practitioner Fellow, 2010
- NHMRC Achievement Award for Top Ranked Research Fellow, 2013
- Lady Mary Fairfax Distinguished Research Award, Ingham Institute 2014
- South Western Sydney Clinical School (UNSW), Distinguished Research Award 2014
- Award from Vietnam National TB Program for contribution to TB control, 2017
- Scientia Professor, University of NSW Sydney, 2019
- elected Fellow, Australian Academy of Health and Medical Sciences
Current appointments
- Professor of Respiratory Medicine, South Western Sydney Clinical School, University of NSW
- National Health and Medical Research Council Australia (NHMRC) Senior Principal Research Fellow
- Respiratory Physician, Department of Respiratory Medicine, Liverpool Hospital
- Head, Respiratory and Environmental Epidemiology, Woolcock Institute of Medical Research
- Director, Australian Centre for Airways Disease Monitoring (ACAM)
- Honorary Professor, Faculty of Medicine, University of Sydney
- Principal Investigator, Centre for Air Pollution, Energy and Health Research (an NHMRC Centre for Research Excellence)
- Principal Investigator, Respiratory, Sleep and Environmental and Occupational Health (RSEOH) Clinical Academic Group, SPHERE, Sydney, Australia
- Editor-in-Chief, International Journal of Tuberculosis and Lung Disease
International
- President, International Union Against Tuberculosis and Lung Diseases, (Member of the Board since 2010, Secretary-General 2013-14, Vice-President 2014-18)
- Editor in Chief, International Journal of Tuberculosis and Lung Disease, 2012-2019
- Member, Steering Committee, Global Asthma Network, 2012-
- Member, Scientific Advisory Committee, American Thoracic Society, 2014-
- Co-Convenor, Vietnam Integrated Center for TB and lung diseases Research (VICTORY), 2015-
- Member, Education Committee, Asia Pacific Society for Respirology, 2016-
Local and National
- Member, NSW Health Department Tuberculosis Advisory Committee 1999-
- Member, NSW Health Department committee on Multi-drug resistant tuberculosis 1999-
- Chair, NSW Chief Health Officer’s Expert Advisory Committee on Air Pollution 2010-
- Member, Health Research Ethics Committee, South Western Sydney Local Health District, 2012-
- NHMRC Centres of Research Excellence (CRE) Population Health Research Grant Review Panel 2018