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  • 2026 - Research.com Medicine in United Kingdom Leader Award
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  • 2023 - Research.com Medicine in United Kingdom Leader Award
  • 2018 - Member of Academia Europaea
  • 2006 - Member of the National Academy of Medicine (NAM)

Overview

Martin McKee is affiliated with the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine in the United Kingdom. Their research primarily spans health professions and medicine, with a significant focus on general health professions and economics and econometrics as key subfields.

Their scholarly output includes a range of topics, notably:

  • Global Health Care Issues
  • Employment and Welfare Studies
  • Health disparities and outcomes
  • Global Public Health Policies and Epidemiology
  • Healthcare Systems and Challenges
  • Global Maternal and Child Health
  • COVID-19 epidemiological studies

McKee has contributed extensively to several reputable journals. The most frequent publication venues include:

  • BMJ
  • The Lancet
  • European Journal of Public Health
  • BMJ Global Health
  • The International Journal of Health Planning and Management

Recent papers authored or co-authored by McKee feature the following publications:

  • "Estimated Research and Development Investment Needed to Bring a New Medicine to Market, 2009-2018" (2020), JAMA
  • "Global, regional, and national estimates of the population at increased risk of severe COVID-19 due to underlying health conditions in 2020: a modelling study" (2020), The Lancet Global Health
  • "Mitigating the wider health effects of covid-19 pandemic response" (2020), BMJ
  • "Lessons learnt from easing COVID-19 restrictions: an analysis of countries and regions in Asia Pacific and Europe" (2020), The Lancet
  • "If the world fails to protect the economy, COVID-19 will damage health not just now but also in the future" (2020), Nature Medicine

Collaborations form an important component of McKee's work. Frequent co-authors include:

  • David Stückler
  • Dina Balabanova
  • May CI van Schalkwyk
  • Eleanor Hutchinson
  • Benjamin Palafox

McKee's contributions have been recognized through membership in prominent scientific organizations, specifically:

  • Member of Academia Europaea (2018)
  • Member of the National Academy of Medicine (NAM) (2006)

Best Publications

  • Global, regional, and national incidence, prevalence, and years lived with disability for 328 diseases and injuries for 195 countries, 1990–2016: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2016

    Theo Vos;Amanuel Alemu Abajobir;Kalkidan Hassen Abate;Cristiana Abbafati

  • Global burden of 369 diseases and injuries in 204 countries and territories, 1990–2019: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2019

    Theo Vos;Theo Vos;Theo Vos;Stephen S. Lim;Cristiana Abbafati;Cristiana Abbafati;Cristiana Abbafati;Kaja M. Abbas;Kaja M. Abbas;Kaja M. Abbas

  • Global, regional, and national age-sex-specific mortality for 282 causes of death in 195 countries and territories, 1980-2017: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2017

    Gregory A Roth;Gregory A Roth;Degu Abate;Kalkidan Hassen Abate;Solomon M Abay

  • Global burden of 87 risk factors in 204 countries and territories, 1990–2019: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2019

    Christopher J.L. Murray;Christopher J.L. Murray;Christopher J.L. Murray;Aleksandr Y. Aravkin;Aleksandr Y. Aravkin;Aleksandr Y. Aravkin;Peng Zheng;Peng Zheng;Peng Zheng;Cristiana Abbafati;Cristiana Abbafati;Cristiana Abbafati

  • Worldwide trends in body-mass index, underweight, overweight, and obesity from 1975 to 2016: a pooled analysis of 2416 population-based measurement studies in 128·9 million children, adolescents, and adults

    Leandra Abarca-Gómez;Ziad A Abdeen;Zargar Abdul Hamid;Niveen M Abu-Rmeileh

  • Global, regional, and national comparative risk assessment of 79 behavioural, environmental and occupational, and metabolic risks or clusters of risks in 188 countries, 1990-2013: A systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2013

    Mohammad H Forouzanfar;Lily Alexander;H Ross Anderson;Victoria F Bachman

  • Global, regional, and national incidence, prevalence, and years lived with disability for 301 acute and chronic diseases and injuries in 188 countries, 1990-2013: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2013

    Theo Vos;Ryan M. Barber;Brad Bell;Amelia Bertozzi-Villa

  • Global, regional, and national age-sex specific all-cause and cause-specific mortality for 240 causes of death, 1990-2013: A systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2013

    Mohsen Naghavi;Haidong Wang;Rafael Lozano;Adrian Davis

  • Global, regional, and national incidence, prevalence, and years lived with disability for 310 diseases and injuries, 1990–2015: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2015

    Theo Vos;Christine Allen;Megha Arora;Ryan M Barber

  • Global, regional, and national life expectancy, all-cause mortality, and cause-specific mortality for 249 causes of death, 1980–2015: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2015

    Haidong Wang;Mohsen Naghavi;Christine Allen;Ryan M Barber

  • Global, regional, and national cancer incidence, mortality, years of life lost, years lived with disability, and disability-adjusted life-years for 29 cancer groups, 1990 to 2017

    Christina Fitzmaurice;Degu Abate;Naghmeh Abbasi;Hedayat Abbastabar

  • Trends in adult body-mass index in 200 countries from 1975 to 2014: A pooled analysis of 1698 population-based measurement studies with 19.2 million participants

    Mariachiara Di Cesare;Mariachiara Di Cesare;James Bentham;Gretchen A Stevens;Bin Zhou

  • Global, regional, and national comparative risk assessment of 84 behavioural, environmental and occupational, and metabolic risks or clusters of risks for 195 countries and territories, 1990–2017 : a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2017

    Jeffrey D. Stanaway;Ashkan Afshin;Emmanuela Gakidou;Stephen S. Lim

  • Global, regional, and national disability-adjusted life-years (DALYs) for 333 diseases and injuries and healthy life expectancy (HALE) for 195 countries and territories, 1990–2016: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2016

    Simon I Hay;Amanuel Alemu Abajobir;Kalkidan Hassen Abate;Cristiana Abbafati

  • Alcohol use and burden for 195 countries and territories, 1990-2016: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2016

    Max G Griswold;Nancy Fullman;Caitlin Hawley;Nicholas Arian

  • Global, regional, and national comparative risk assessment of 79 behavioural, environmental and occupational, and metabolic risks or clusters of risks in 188 countries, 1990-2013

    Mohammad H. Forouzanfar;Lily Alexander;H. Ross Anderson;Victoria F. Bachman

  • Patient safety, satisfaction, and quality of hospital care: cross sectional surveys of nurses and patients in 12 countries in Europe and the United States.

    Linda H Aiken;Walter Sermeus;Koen Van den Heede;Douglas M Sloane

  • Prevalence, Awareness, Treatment, and Control of Hypertension in Rural and Urban Communities in High-, Middle-, and Low-Income Countries

    Clara K. Chow;Clara K. Chow;Koon K. Teo;Sumathy Rangarajan;Shofiqul Islam

  • Priority actions for the non-communicable disease crisis

    Robert Beaglehole;Ruth Bonita;Richard Horton;Cary Adams

  • Global, regional, and national disability-adjusted life-years (DALYs) for 333 diseases and injuries and healthy life expectancy (HALE) for 195 countries and territories, 1990-2016

    Simon I. Hay;Amanuel Alemu Abajobir;Kalkidan Hassen Abate;Cristiana Abbafati

  • Global, regional, and national disability-adjusted life-years (DALYs) for 315 diseases and injuries and healthy life expectancy (HALE), 1990-2015 : a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2015

    Nicholas J. Kassebaum;Megha Arora;Ryan M. Barber;Zulfiqar A. Bhutta;Zulfiqar A. Bhutta

Frequent Co-Authors

David Stuckler
David Stuckler Bocconi University
Sanjay Basu
Sanjay Basu Stanford University
Dina Balabanova
Dina Balabanova London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine
Ellen Nolte
Ellen Nolte London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine
Bernd Rechel
Bernd Rechel London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine
Helena Legido-Quigley
Helena Legido-Quigley National University of Singapore
Bayard Roberts
Bayard Roberts London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine
David A. Leon
David A. Leon London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine
Anna B Gilmore
Anna B Gilmore University of Bath
Aaron Reeves
Aaron Reeves University of Oxford

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