Professor Mark Daniel
Research Chair in Social Epidemiology
Mark Daniel arrived at UniSA in September 2007 as Professor and Research
Chair for Social Epidemiology. He holds a concurrent appointment as
Professorial Fellow, Department of Medicine, The University of Melbourne.
Previously, he was Associate Professor, Département de médecine sociale et
préventive, Faculté de médecine, Université de Montréal, Canada, where he
held a Canada Research Chair for Biopsychosocial Pathways in Population
Health. He began his career as Assistant Professor of Health Behavior &
Epidemiology in the School of Public Health, The University of North
Carolina at Chapel Hill, U.S.A. He earned his doctorate in Health Care &
Epidemiology, Faculty of Medicine, University of British Columbia,
Vancouver, and was a Medical Research Council of Canada Postdoctoral Fellow,
based with the Department of Epidemiology and Preventive Medicine, Monash
University, Melbourne.
Professor Daniel’s research has been funded by the Medical Research Council
of Canada, National Health Research & Development Program, Canadian
Institutes of Health Research, Canada Foundation for Innovation, U.S.
National Institutes of Health, U.S. Centers for Disease Control &
Prevention, National Health & Medical Research Council of Australia, and the
South Australia Department of Health Strategic Health Research Program. He
has taught public health at the graduate level in three universities, and
thus far supervised 11 PhD students, 12 MSc students, and six postdoctoral
fellows. His research centres on how social and physical environments affect
the expression of health risk and influence chronic and infectious disease
outcomes. He leads an international collaboration for geographic information
system (GIS) based research on person-place interactions, involving
collaborators in Australia, Canada, France, the USA and the UK.