Mark Richard Cullen is a physician, scholar, and population health scientist known for his work in occupational medicine. As a professor at Yale and later Stanford University, his research focused on the social, environmental, behavioral and bio-medical determinants of morbidity and mortality in adults, with special emphasis on the role of workplace’in such matters.
His efforts enabled him to develop an academic/private partnership with Alcoa Inc. In his role as Alcoa’s senior medical officer, he extended his research into the psychosocial causes of disease in the workforce, exploiting existing administrative data on 250,000 former and present employees.[7] In 2006, Cullen was awarded an NIA grant to develop a model of population determinants of chronic disease, disability and death, followed by additional funding to study how employees and their families use various social and health benefit options.[8][9][10][11][12][13]
Cullen expanded his work globally in a series of sabbaticals. During his sabbatical in Zimbabwe in 1988 Cullen conducted an epidemiological study exploring the impact of chrysotile asbestos on respiratory tract injury and malignancy risks.[14] The work contributed to the recognition globally that chrysotile was a threat to health, equal in most ways to the other fiber types of asbestos. In Ecuador in 1993 he studied cottage manufacturing and horticulture, largely unregulated with rampant lead, mercury and pesticide poisoning.[15] In South Africa in 1997, he joined a government commission reviewing the training programs in occupational and environmental health, leading to establishment of a new curricular model based on the emerging experience in the US.[16][17]
In 2015 Cullen founded the Center for Population Health Sciences (PHS) whose mission is to improve the health of populations by bringing together diverse disciplines and data to understand and address social, environmental, behavioral, and biological determinants.[19][20][21] PHS allows scholars from diverse disciplines to easily and securely share, link, and analyze large disparate population-level datasets (including high risk data), facilitating a shift toward multi-disciplinary team science. The Center has 2,000 members and hosts 150 datasets.[22]
Cullen joined the faculties of Biomedical Data Science and Epidemiology, and was appointed a senior fellow of the Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research. He also served as the Senior Associate Dean of Research for the School of Medicine (2016–19) and Senior Associate Vice Provost for Research at the University (2018–19).[23]
Cullen has published in many medical and scientific journals and co-edited the Textbook of Clinical Occupational and Environmental Medicine.
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Personal life
Cullen is married to Michele Barry, Director of the Center for Innovation in Global Health at Stanford. They have two children.[25][26] Zoe is a labor economist and Assistant Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School,[27] and Esme is an internist and public health researcher.[28]
^Cullen, Mark R.; Vegso, Sally; Cantley, Linda; Galusha, Deron; Rabinowitz, Peter; Taiwo, Oyebode; Fiellin, Martha; Wennberg, David; Iennaco, Joanne; Slade, Martin D.; Sircar, Kanta (2006). "Use of Medical Insurance Claims Data for Occupational Health Research". Journal of Occupational and Environmental Medicine. 48 (10): 1054–1061. doi:10.1097/01.jom.0000241049.23093.a4. ISSN1076-2752. PMID17033505. S2CID32318351.
^Pollack, Keshia M.; Agnew, Jacqueline; Slade, Martin D.; Cantley, Linda; Taiwo, Oyebode; Vegso, Sally; Sircar, Kanta; Cullen, Mark R. (2007). "Use of employer administrative databases to identify systematic causes of injury in aluminum manufacturing". American Journal of Industrial Medicine. 50 (9): 676–686. doi:10.1002/ajim.20493. ISSN0271-3586. PMID17676586.
^Cullen, Mark R.; Lopez-Carrillo, Lizbeth; Alli, Ben; Pace, Patricia E.; Shalat, Stuart L.; Baloyi, Rabelan S. (1991). "Chrysotile asbestos and health in Zimbabwe: II. Health status survey of active miners and millers". American Journal of Industrial Medicine. 19 (2): 171–182. doi:10.1002/ajim.4700190205. ISSN0271-3586. PMID1847002.
^Cullen, Mark R.; Harari, Raul (2013). "Occupational Health Research in Developing Countries: The Experience in Ecuador". International Journal of Occupational and Environmental Health. 1 (1): 39–46. doi:10.1179/oeh.1995.1.1.39. ISSN1077-3525. PMID9990157.
^Rosenstock L, Cullen M, Fingerhut M. Occupational Health. In: Jamison DT, Breman JG, Measham AR, et al., editors. Disease Control Priorities in Developing Countries. 2nd edition. Washington (DC): The International Bank for Reconstruction and Development / The World Bank; 2006. Chapter 60. Available from: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK11750/ Co-published by Oxford University Press, New York.
^Rosenstock, Linda; Cullen, Mark; Fingerhut, Marilyn (2006). "Occupational Health". In Jamison, Dean; Breman, Joel; Measham, Anthony; Alleyne, George; Claeson, Mariam; Evans, David; Jha, Prabhat; Mills, Anne; Musgrove, Philip (eds.). Disease Control Priorities in Developing Countries (2 ed.). The International Bank for Reconstruction and Development / The World Bank. ISBN0-8213-6179-1. PMID21250328.
^"Esme Cullen, MD, MPH". Marin Community Clinic (in Latin). 2020-11-18. Retrieved 2021-04-12.
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