Departmental Affiliations
Center & Institute Affiliations
Matti Marklund, PhD, MSE, researches diet-disease links, focusing on nutrition, public health, and cardiometabolic epidemiology, and evaluates the impact of food policies on health
Research Interests
Cardiovascular epidemiology; public health nutrition; dietary assessment; sodium; salt; potassium; sodium reduction; trans-fat policies; dietary fat quality; carbohydrate quality; nutritional biomarkers; health economics; cost-effectiveness analysis; chronic disease prevention; food policy; randomized controlled trials; cohort studies; global health; public health interventions; omega-6 fatty acids; non-communicable diseases; nutritional epidemiology; diet-disease relationships; whole grain; systematic review; meta-analysis; dairy; processed foods.
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Experiences & Accomplishments
As an engineer, food scientist, and public health expert, Matti Marklund has a diverse research portfolio focused on the health and economic impacts of food policies and other public health interventions, nutritional epidemiology, and dietary assessment.
Over the past 16 years, Matti has advanced the field of cardiovascular epidemiology and public health nutrition. His research, supported by randomized controlled trials, cohort studies, and systematic reviews, has contributed to global understanding of diet-disease relationships, particularly in the context of dietary fat and carbohydrate quality. Since 2021, Matti has secured five research grants as principal investigator to lead studies assessing the health impact and cost-effectiveness of food policies in diverse settings.
His publication record includes over 80 peer-reviewed articles, with more than 50 published since 2020, and many in top-tier journals like BMJ, Circulation, and JAMA Internal Medicine. His work has been cited over 3,000 times and referenced in 25 policy documents from major organizations such as WHO and the World Bank. His research has also garnered significant global news coverage.
Matti Marklund received his MSc in Engineering Biotechnology from Umeå University and his PhD in Food Science from the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences. He completed post-doctoral training at Tufts University and Uppsala University, and currently serves as an Assistant Professor in Human Nutrition at Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. He also holds appointments at The George Institute for Global Health in Australia and Uppsala University in Sweden.
Honors & Awards
2022 Paul Dudley White International Scholar Award, American Heart Association
2021 Paul Dudley White International Scholar Award, American Heart Association
2017 Dr. P Håkansson’s Foundation Research Award
2016 Dr. P Håkansson’s Foundation Research Award
Select Publications
Selected publications from the last 5 years
Marklund M, Aminde LN, Wanjau MN, Ojo AE, Okoro CE, Adegboye A, Huang L, Veerman JL, Wu JH, Huffman MD, Ojji DB. Estimated health benefits, costs and cost-effectiveness of eliminating industrial trans - fatty acids in Nigeria: cost-effectiveness analysis. BMJ Glob Health. 2024 Apr 17;9(4):e014294. doi: 10.1136/bmjgh-2023-014294. PubMed PMID: 38631705; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC11029410.
Marklund M, Cherukupalli R, Pathak P, Neupane D, Krishna A, Wu JHY, Neal B, Kaur P, Moran AE, Appel LJ, Matsushita K. Hypertension treatment capacity in India by increased workforce, greater task-sharing, and extended prescription period: a modelling study. Lancet Reg Health Southeast Asia. 2023 Mar;10:100124. doi: 10.1016/j.lansea.2022.100124. eCollection 2023 Mar. PubMed PMID: 37383361; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC10306017.
Trieu K, Bhat S, Dai Z, Leander K, Gigante B, Qian F, Korat AVA, Sun Q, Pan XF, Laguzzi F, Cederholm T, de Faire U, Hellénius ML, Wu JHY, Risérus U, Marklund M. Biomarkers of dairy fat intake, incident cardiovascular disease, and all-cause mortality: A cohort study, systematic review, and meta-analysis. PLoS Med. 2021 Sep;18(9):e1003763. doi: 10.1371/journal.pmed.1003763. eCollection 2021 Sep. PubMed PMID: 34547017; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC8454979.
Marklund M, Singh G, Greer R, Cudhea F, Matsushita K, Micha R, Brady T, Zhao D, Huang L, Tian M, Cobb L, Neal B, Appel LJ, Mozaffarian D, Wu JHY. Estimated population wide benefits and risks in China of lowering sodium through potassium enriched salt substitution: modelling study. BMJ. 2020 Apr 22;369:m824. doi: 10.1136/bmj.m824. PubMed PMID: 32321724; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC7190075.
Marklund M, Wu JHY, Imamura F, Del Gobbo LC, Fretts A, de Goede J, Shi P, Tintle N, Wennberg M, Aslibekyan S, Chen TA, de Oliveira Otto MC, Hirakawa Y, Eriksen HH, Kröger J, Laguzzi F, et al. Biomarkers of Dietary Omega-6 Fatty Acids and Incident Cardiovascular Disease and Mortality. Circulation. 2019 May 21;139(21):2422-2436. doi: 10.1161/CIRCULATIONAHA.118.038908. PubMed PMID: 30971107; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC6582360.