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Social Sciences and Humanities
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2026

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Social Sciences and Humanities

D-Index
89
Citations
31252
World Ranking
208
National Ranking
34

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2026 - Research.com Social Sciences and Humanities in United Kingdom Leader Award

Overview

Mark Tomlinson is affiliated with Queen's University Belfast in the United Kingdom. Their research encompasses a broad range of topics within medicine, health professions, and psychology, with a considerable focus on child and adolescent health and development. Their work draws from several key fields including Medicine, Health Professions, and Psychology, and extends into specialized subfields such as General Health Professions, Clinical Psychology, Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health, Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health, and Safety Research.

The primary topics explored by Tomlinson include:

  • Global Maternal and Child Health
  • Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development
  • Maternal Mental Health During Pregnancy and Postpartum
  • Adolescent Sexual and Reproductive Health
  • Child and Adolescent Health
  • Poverty, Education, and Child Welfare
  • Child Abuse and Trauma

Tomlinson's recent notable publications are:

  • "A future for the world's children? A WHO-UNICEF-Lancet Commission," 2020, The Lancet
  • "Parenting in a time of COVID-19," 2020, The Lancet
  • "Health workers' perceptions and experiences of using mHealth technologies to deliver primary healthcare services: a qualitative evidence synthesis," 2020, Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews
  • "Systematic review and meta-analysis of depression, anxiety, and suicidal ideation among Ph.D. students," 2021, Scientific Reports
  • "Adverse childhood experiences and lifelong health," 2023, Nature Medicine

Frequent coauthors who have collaborated with Tomlinson include:

  • Sarah Skeen
  • Mary Jane Rotheram-Borus
  • Christina A. Laurenzi
  • Xanthe Hunt
  • Lorraine Sherr

Tomlinson publishes regularly in journals such as BMJ Open, BMC Public Health, The Lancet, PLoS Medicine, and Vulnerable Children and Youth Studies, demonstrating a consistent presence in both general and specialized venues of public health and clinical research.

Among book contributions, Tomlinson has a publication with Cambridge University Press, titled The Handbook of DOHaD and Society (2024).

Best Publications

  • Restructuring the Employment Relationship

    Duncan Gallie;Michael White;Yuan Cheng;Mark Tomlinson

  • A future for the world's children? A WHO-UNICEF-Lancet Commission

    Helen Clark;Awa Marie Coll-Seck;Anshu Banerjee;Stefan Peterson

  • Scale up services for mental disorders: a call for action.

    D Chisholm;A J Flisher;C Lund;V Patel

  • Parenting in a time of COVID-19.

    Lucie Cluver;Lucie Cluver;Jamie M Lachman;Lorraine Sherr;Inge Wessels

  • Cell-Free DNA Analysis for Noninvasive Examination of Trisomy

    Mary E. Norton;Bo Jacobsson;Geeta K. Swamy;Louise C. Laurent

  • Scaling up mHealth: where is the evidence?

    Mark Tomlinson;Mary Jane Rotheram-Borus;Leslie Swartz;Alexander C. Tsai

  • Non-Invasive Chromosomal Evaluation (NICE) Study: results of a multicenter prospective cohort study for detection of fetal trisomy 21 and trisomy 18

    Mary E. Norton;Herb Brar;Jonathan Weiss;Ardeshir Karimi

  • Post-partum depression and the mother-infant relationship in a South African peri-urban settlement

    Peter J. Cooper;Mark Tomlinson;Leslie Swartz;Matthew Woolgar

  • Multicenter randomized trial of cerclage for preterm birth prevention in high-risk women with shortened midtrimester cervical length

    John Owen;Gary Hankins;Jay D. Iams;Vincenzo Berghella

  • Maternal Iron Deficiency Anemia Affects Postpartum Emotions and Cognition

    John L. Beard;Michael K. Hendricks;Eva M. Perez;Laura E. Murray-Kolb

  • PRIME: A Programme to Reduce the Treatment Gap for Mental Disorders in Five Low- and Middle-Income Countries

    Crick Lund;Mark Tomlinson;Mark Tomlinson;Mary De Silva;Abebaw Fekadu

  • Improving quality of mother-infant relationship and infant attachment in socioeconomically deprived community in South Africa : randomised controlled trial

    Peter J Cooper;Mark Tomlinson;Leslie Swartz;Mireille Landman

  • Knowledge-intensive services and international competitiveness: a four country comparison

    P. Windrum;M. Tomlinson

  • Acceptability and feasibility of using non-specialist health workers to deliver mental health care: stakeholder perceptions from the PRIME district sites in Ethiopia, India, Nepal, South Africa, and Uganda.

    Emily Mendenhall;Mary J. De Silva;Charlotte Hanlon;Inge Petersen

  • Health workers’ perceptions and experiences of using mHealth technologies to deliver primary healthcare services: a qualitative evidence synthesis

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  • Depressed mood in pregnancy: Prevalence and correlates in two Cape Town peri-urban settlements

    Mary Hartley;Mark Tomlinson;Erin Greco;W Scott Comulada

  • The use of mobile phones as a data collection tool: a report from a household survey in South Africa.

    Mark Tomlinson;Wesley Solomon;Yages Singh;Tanya Doherty;Tanya Doherty

  • The Mother–Infant Relationship and Infant Attachment in a South African Peri-Urban Settlement

    Mark Tomlinson;Peter Cooper;Lynne Murray

  • Challenges and opportunities for implementing integrated mental health care: a district level situation analysis from five low- and middle-income countries.

    Charlotte Hanlon;Nagendra P. Luitel;Tasneem Kathree;Vaibhav Murhar

  • Mother-Infant Interactions and Infant Development Are Altered by Maternal Iron Deficiency Anemia

    Eva M. Perez;Michael K. Hendricks;John L. Beard;Laura E. Murray-Kolb

  • The epidemiology of major depression in South Africa: results from the South African stress and health study.

    Mark Tomlinson;Anna T Grimsrud;Dan J Stein;David R Williams

Frequent Co-Authors

Mary Jane Rotheram-Borus
Mary Jane Rotheram-Borus University of California, Los Angeles
Peter J. Cooper
Peter J. Cooper University of Reading
Leslie Swartz
Leslie Swartz Stellenbosch University
Lynne Murray
Lynne Murray University of Reading
Crick Lund
Crick Lund University of Cape Town
Charlotte Hanlon
Charlotte Hanlon King's College London
Lucie Cluver
Lucie Cluver University of Oxford
Alexander C. Tsai
Alexander C. Tsai Harvard University
Lorraine Sherr
Lorraine Sherr University College London
Tanya Doherty
Tanya Doherty South African Medical Research Council

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