Dalla Lana School of Public Health

Faculty Member

Carles Muntaner MD, PhD, MHS

Research Interests

• social class
• politics
• work organization
• employment conditions
• race/ethnicity
• gender
• welfare state
• mental health
• health care workers
• latin america

Primary Teaching Responsibilities

• Politics, Welfare State and Health
• Social Inequalities in Health
• Social Epidemiology
• Global Health
• Community Health
• Philosophy of Population Health

Honours & Awards

• Wade Hampton Frost Award of the Epidemiology Section of the American Association of Public Health (APHA)

Current Research Projects

• Employment Conditions Network of the WHO Commission on Social Determinants of Health (SDOH) 2007-2009
• Marmot Review 2009-2010
• Urbanization and Social Inequalities in Health WHO Kobe Center 2009-2010
• Analysis of WHS 2008-2010
• Venezuela's Bario Adentro 2009-2010

Representative Publications

1: Martínez JM, Benach J, Benavides FG, Muntaner C, Clèries R, Zurriaga O,
Martínez-Beneito MA, Yasui Y. Improving multilevel analyses: the integrated
epidemiologic design. Epidemiology. 2009 Jul;20(4):525-32.
2: Blas E, Gilson L, Kelly MP, Labonté R, Lapitan J, Muntaner C, Ostlin P, Popay
J, Sadana R, Sen G, Schrecker T, Vaghri Z. Addressing social determinants of
health inequities: what can the state and civil society do? Lancet. 2008 Nov
8;372(9650):1684-9.
3: Borrell C, Muntaner C, Solà J, Artazcoz L, Puigpinós R, Benach J, Noh S.
Immigration and self-reported health status by social class and gender: the
importance of material deprivation, work organisation and household labour. J
Epidemiol Community Health. 2008 May;62(5):e7.
4: Espelt A, Borrell C, Rodríguez-Sanz M, Muntaner C, Pasarín MI, Benach J,
Schaap M, Kunst AE, Navarro V. Inequalities in health by social class dimensions
in European countries of different political traditions. Int J Epidemiol. 2008
Oct;37(5):1095-105.
5: Alterman T, Steege AL, Li J, Petersen MR, Muntaner C. Ethnic, racial, and
gender variations in health among farm operators in the United States. Ann
Epidemiol. 2008 Mar;18(3):179-86.
6: Cano-Serral G, Azlor E, Rodríguez-Sanz M, Pasarín MI, Martínez JM, Puigpinós
R, Muntaner C, Borrell C. Socioeconomic inequalities in mortality in Barcelona: a
study based on census tracts (MEDEA Project). Health Place. 2009
Mar;15(1):186-92. Epub 2008 Jun 3.
7: Borrell C, Azlor E, Rodríguez-Sanz M, Puigpinós R, Cano-Serral G, Pasarín MI,
Martínez JM, Benach J, Muntaner C. Trends in socioeconomic mortality inequalities
in a southern European urban setting at the turn of the 21st century. J Epidemiol
Community Health. 2008 Mar;62(3):258-66.
8: Borrell C, Marí-Dell'Olmo M, Rodríguez-Sanz M, Garcia-Olalla P, Caylà JA,
Benach J, Muntaner C. Socioeconomic position and excess mortality during the heat
wave of 2003 in Barcelona. Eur J Epidemiol. 2006;21(9):633-40. Epub 2006 Oct 18.
9: Navarro V, Muntaner C, Borrell C, Benach J, Quiroga A, Rodríguez-Sanz M,
Vergés N, Pasarín MI. Politics and health outcomes. Lancet. 2006 Sep
16;368(9540):1033-7.
10: Muntaner C, Li Y, Xue X, Thompson T, O'Campo P, Chung H, Eaton WW. County
level socioeconomic position, work organization and depression disorder: a
repeated measures cross-classified multilevel analysis of low-income nursing home
workers. Health Place. 2006 Dec;12(4):688-700.
11: Trinkoff AM, Johantgen M, Muntaner C, Le R. Staffing and worker injury in
nursing homes. Am J Public Health. 2005 Jul;95(7):1220-5.
12:Muntaner C, Eaton WW, Miech R, O'Campo P. Socioeconomic position and major
mental disorders. Epidemiol Rev. 2004;26:53-62.
13: Diez-Roux AV, Nieto FJ, Muntaner C, Tyroler HA, Comstock GW, Shahar E, Cooper
LS, Watson RL, Szklo M. Neighborhood environments and coronary heart disease: a
multilevel analysis. Am J Epidemiol. 1997 Jul 1;146(1):48-63.
14. Muntaner C, Anthony JC, Crum RM, Eaton WW. Psychosocial dimensions of work and the risk of drug dependence among adults.
Am J Epidemiol. 1995 Jul 15;142(2):183-90.