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Professor Wagner Marcenes, Emeritus Professor of Oral Epidemiology, BDS, MSc, PhD.

Wagner

Emeritus Professor

Email: w.marcenes@qmul.ac.uk

Profile

Emeritus Professor in Oral Epidemiology at Queen Mary University of London (QMUL). I obtained my degree in Dentistry (1975), Specialist in Endodontics (585 hours -1977) and MSc in Dentistry (1983), Federal University of Minas Gerais, Belo Horizonte, Brazil, and PhD in Epidemiology and Dental Public Health at University College London (UCL), UK (1990).

Appointed Lecturer at the joint department of Dental Public Health, University College London School of Medicine, UCL, and The Royal London Hospital (1991), promoted to Senior Lecturer (1999), Professor of Oral Epidemiology (2002). Director of Research - Patient and Population Health Research Group and of Barts Health NHS Trust – Dentistry, Member of the School of Medicine and Dentistry Graduate School Management Committee, the Dental School Advisory Group, the Research Scientific Forum, the Dental School Research Degrees, and the OSCE-SICA Committees, Organiser of the Course in Evidence Based Dentistry and term 11, 4th year Undergraduate Course in Dentistry, supervised over 15 PhD students and 50 MSc students.

Research portfolio includes seminal research and advancements on a new paradigm in oral health research by shifting the focus on biological and social-economic risk factors to integrate psychosocial determinants of health as modifiers of traditional risk factors (Salutogenic Model) and the life-course theory to identifying critical periods and integration of cumulative risk and protective factors as determinants of health. This in addition to the assessment of the Global Burden of Oral Conditions.

Scopus (10.09.2025) h-index 69; 109,900 citations. ResearchGate (10.09.2025) h-index 85, Research Interest Score 67,346 (higher than 99% of ResearchGate members), 134,656 Citations.

Scientific Awards include Fellowship of the Royal College of Surgeons (2012), the IADR Distinguished Scientist Award in Global Oral Health Research (2016), two IADR/AADR J Gies and two SUNSTAR for best Research (2008-2018).

External engagement includes Health Policy consultancy to Governments and the World Health Organization.

Centre: Dental Public Health and Primary Care

 

Research

Research Interests:

Testing a School Health Promoting intervention to reduce social health inequalities by improving school children health capital in socially deprived areas (Translation research). Protocols were developed (available by request), pilot studies showed its implementation feasibility.

Publications

Marcenes W, Kassebaum NJ, Bernabé E, Flaxman A, Naghavi M, Lopez A, Murray CJ. Global burden of oral conditions in 1990-2010: a systematic analysis. J Dent Res. 2013, 92(7):592-597. https://doi.org/10.1177/0022034513490168

Marinho F, Passos VMA, Malta DC, Franca EB. Marcenes W, GBD 2016 Brazil Collaborators. Burden of disease in Brazil, 1990-2016: a systematic subnational analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2016. Lancet. 2018 Sep 392(10149):760-775. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/30037735/#:~:text=20.%20PMID%3A%2030037735%3B-,PMCID%3A%20PMC6123514

Listl S, Galloway J, Mossey PA, Marcenes W. Global Economic Impact of Dental Diseases. J Dent Res. 2015 Oct;94(10):1355-61. doi: 10.1177/0022034515602879. Epub 2015 Aug 28. PMID: 26318590.

GBD 2017 Risk Factor Collaborators. Global, regional, and national comparative risk assessment of 84 behavioural, environmental and occupational, and metabolic risks or clusters of risks for 195 countries and territories, 1990-2017: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2017. Lancet. 2018 Nov 10;392(10159):1923-1994. doi: 10.1016/S0140-6736(18)32225-6. Epub 2018 Nov 8.

Bernabe E, Marcenes W, GBD 2021 Oral Disorders Collaborators. Trends in the global, regional, and national burden of oral conditions from 1990 to 2021: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2021. Lancet. 2025 Mar 15;405(10482):897-910. doi: 10.1016/S0140-6736(24)02811-3. Epub 2025 Feb 27. PMID: 40024264

Supervision

  1. Claides Abegg. Factors affecting tooth cleaning pattern, structure and performance in Brazilian adults, 1998. CAPES/CNPq
  2. George Tsakos. A comparative study of socio-dental indicators and treatment needs in older people in Greece and the UK, 1998.
  3. Maria Ilma Cortes de Souza. The prevalence and socio-psychological impact of traumatic dental injuries in school children in Belo Horizonte, Brazil, 2000. CAPES/CNP
  4. Marcelo Bonecker. Caries reduction between 1995, 1997 and 1999 in pre-school children in Brazil, 2000.
  5. Ruth Nowjack-Raymer. The impact of oral health status on diet and nutrition, 2000.
  6. Jefferson Traebert. Family stressful events, family resilience and traumatic dental injuries (2003).
  7. Bo-Yen Huang. Determinants of Traumatic Dental Injuries in 15-18-year-old students in Taiwan (2004).
  8. Allan Pau. Measurement of dental pain.
  9. Easter Joury. Socio-economic and psychological predictors of initial improvement in occlusion in 12–16-year-old children living in London (2008).
  10. Ana Beatriz Gamboa. Socio-psychological resources in an interactive model for generalised aggressive periodontitis aetiology (2008). CAPES/CNP
  11. Grammati Sarri. Socio-cultural factors and the experience of dental neglecting in deprived adolescents.
  12. Patricia Evans. Development of a Healthy School Audit Tool.
  13. Sucharita Nanjappa. Family functioning and frequency of sugar consumption by three- and four-year-old children in Outer Northeast London.

Budi Aslinie Md. Sabri. Family functioning and chronic periodontitis in Outer Northeast London

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