Prof. Marc Suhrcke

Prof. Marc Suhrcke is head of the cross-departmental Research Programme on ‘Health & Health Systems’ at the Luxembourg Institute of Socio-Economic Research (LISER), a role he has held since 2017. Until 2022, he also served as Professor of Global Health Economics at the Centre for Health Economics (CHE) at the University of York, United Kingdom. Prior to his positions at LISER and York, Marc was Professor of Public Health Economics at the University of East Anglia (UEA), and held research roles with several international institutions, including the World Health Organization, the UNICEF Innocenti Research Centre, the University of Hamburg, the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development, the Centre for European Policy Studies in Brussels, the European Commission, and the Hamburg Institute for International Economics.

Marc’s research focuses on a wide range of issues in health economics, both in Europe and globally. His work examines the socio-economic determinants and consequences of health and health inequalities, and the evaluation of population- and system-level policies on health and related outcomes. He is particularly interested in using observational data to uncover meaningful, ideally causal, relationships.

His research has been funded by a variety of national and international organisations, including the World Bank, the World Health Organization, the European Commission, the UK Department for International Development (DFID), the Department of Health (England), the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria, the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control, the UK National Institute for Health and Care Research (NIHR), the Medical Research Council (MRC), the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC), the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, and the Newton Fund.

Marc currently holds a number of honorary academic positions. He is an Honorary Professorial Fellow at both the Centre for Health Economics at the University of York and the Norwich Medical School at the University of East Anglia. He also serves as an Honorary Senior Visiting Fellow in the School of Clinical Medicine at the University of Cambridge. In addition, he is a member of the World Health Organization Europe’s Scientific Expert Advisory Group on Health Equity, as well as its New Economics Expert Group (NEEG).

He is deeply committed to advancing the use of rigorous evidence to inform public health and social policy, and values international collaboration as a means to improve health equity and systems performance across Europe and beyond.

For a full list of Marc’s academic publications, please visit his Google Scholar page.