Rate My Professor Erik Martin

Dr. Erik Martin is a Senior Lecturer in Public Health Medicine at the School of Medicine within the Faculty of Health at Deakin University, Geelong, Australia. He currently leads the Public Health Medicine theme in the Doctor of Medicine degree program. Martin's research specializations include non-communicable disease prevention, healthy public policy, health promotion programs, global health particularly in the Pacific region, and medical education. His work emphasizes tobacco and obesity-related policies, healthy settings approaches, and strategies to address public health challenges in small island developing states. Martin completed his PhD at Deakin University on the implementation of the Framework Convention on Tobacco Control in small island developing states, supervised by Professor Evelyne de Leeuw. He also holds an undergraduate double degree from Deakin University. His career at Deakin University began in 2014 as an Associate Lecturer in Public Health at the School of Medicine, progressing to his present senior lecturing position.

Martin has made notable contributions to medical education through teaching in the Doctor of Medicine program and co-authoring publications on integrating public health into medical curricula. Key publications include 'Pacific Healthy Islands Vision: success factors and challenges faced by health promotion programs' in Health Promotion International (2023), 'Global burden of early pregnancy gestational diabetes mellitus (eGDM): A systematic review' in Diabetes Research and Clinical Practice (2022, cited 53 times), 'Healthy islands: best practices in health promotion in the Pacific' (2017), 'Developing a program logic model for evaluation and research of a rural medical training stream' in BMC Medical Education (2025), and 'Prevalence and risk factors of early gestational diabetes mellitus (EGDM) in Indians: The STRiDE study' in Diabetes Research and Clinical Practice (2026). With 22 research outputs and approximately 99 citations on ResearchGate, his scholarship influences NCD prevention policies and rural medical workforce development. Martin supervises PhD students and supports initiatives such as the Greater Good Award for Deakin medical students.