Dr. Carles Muntaner, MD, MHS, PhD, FCAHS, is a Professor at the Lawrence Bloomberg Faculty of Health, at the University of Toronto. His wide-ranging research interests centre on health equity and health inequality. Dr. Muntaner holds cross-appointments at the Dalla Lana School of Public Health and the Department of Psychiatry. He’s an Adjunct Professor at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore. He was Chair of the Social Equity and Health Section at the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health. The WHO named Dr. Muntaner Co-chair of its Employment Conditions Knowledge Network of the WHO Commission on Social Determinants of Health. In 2004, he received the Wasw Hampton Frost Award of the Epidemiology Section of the American Public Health Association. In 2019, Dr. Muntaner was inducted as a Fellow in the Canadian Academy of Health Sciences and received the American Psychological Association/National Institute of Occupational Safety and Health Gwendolyn Puryear Keita Award in Social Justice and Welfare of Working People. He has published more than 550 contributions and his current H-Index (Scholar) is 109. Google Scholar lists him as the second mst cited Marxian scholar. He holds 4 citation classics. In 2026 Research.com ranked him as the 9th Social Scientist in Canada and 109th in the world. He has been a consultant on health policy to the governments of Catalonia, Spain, Chile, Venezuela, and the EU, in addition to working with PAHO and WHO. 

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