Dr Guy Barrington Marks | UNSW Research

My Expertise

Lung health with specific focus on airways disease, air pollution and tuberculosis - capacity building for lung health research.

Fields of Research (FoR)

Respiratory Diseases, Epidemiology

SEO tags

Respiratory System and Diseases (incl. Asthma)

Biography

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,...view more

Research Interests:

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

My Grants

Title	Investigators	Source	Years	Funds ($)
Prevention of multi-drug resistant tuberculosis in a high prevalence setting: ‘Connecting the DOTS’ in Vietnam	G Fox G Marks R Menzies NV Nhung B Marais S Graham M Behr D Dowdy A Benedetti	NHMRC Project Grant 1081443	2015 – 2019	$753,157 $800,219 $800,219 $399,885 $481,065
National Clinical Centre of Research Excellence in Severe Asthma	P Gibson G Marks V McDonald P Wark G King B Thompson H Reddel J Upham L Smith A James	NHMRC Centre for Research Excellence 1078579	2015- 2019	$551,896 $593,915 $645,933 $416,242 $290,186
Multidimensional Assessment of the Health Impacts of Infrasound: Two Randomised Controlled Trials	Guy Marks Ronald Grunstein Renzo Tonin Nathaniel Marshall Miriam Welgampola Nicholas Glozier Craig Phillips Brett Toelle Delwyn Bartlett Christine Cowie	NHMRC Targeted Research Grant APP1113615	2016-2020	$902,263 $446,641 $219,652 $219,652 $155,724
Energy transitions, air pollution and health in Australia	Guy Marks Bin Jalaludin Michael Abramson Lidia Morawska Shyamali Dharmage Fay Johnston Geoffrey Morgan Jane Heyworth Graeme Zosky Yuming Guo	NHMRC Centre for Research Excellence 1116412	2017- 2021	$498,245 $498,245 $498,245 $498,245 $498,245
Development and validation of a latent tuberculosis diagnostic	A. Kelleher J. Zaunders J.B. Belicha G. Marks JMT Morgado	NHMRC Development grant 1118550	2017- 2019	$534,865
An integrated health-sector strategy to combat COPD and asthma in Vietnam: A pragmatic stepped intervention cluster randomized trial	G Fox G Marks J Negin S Jan NV Nguyen B Tran CQ Ngo	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 B Jalaludin G Morgan C Cowie Y Guo M Cope L Knibbs L Morawska J Heyworth A Hinwood	NHMRC Project Grant 1142222	2018-2020	$537,062 $254,747 $249,599
Improving Global Tuberculosis Control with the AuTuMN Platform	J Trauer E McBryde T Doan G Marks J Denholm	NHMRC Project grant 1144570	2018- 2020	$228,353 $213,353 $213,353
Combating the emergence and spread of antimicrobial resistant infectious diseases in Vietnam: the V-RESIST study	G Fox J Negin G Marks S Jan J Iredell B Marais Tran Hoang Nhung Nguyen K Viney J Beardsley	NHMRC/DFAT International Joint Call IndoPacific Health Security App1153346	2018-2020	$855,356 $879,779 $740,627

My Awards

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

My Engagement

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

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