Marco is a dentist with a PhD in Epidemiology. Marco spent almost 20 years working at the Department of Public Health at the Federal University of Santa Catarina, Brazil. In 2012, he was appointed as a Professor and Director of the Australian Research Centre for Population Oral Health University in Adelaide, Australia. In 2018, he took a position as a Professor of Dental and Oral Health Research at Griffith University, Australia. Currently, he is the Deputy CEO for Research & Education, Director of the National Dental Research Institute Singapore, Senior Principal Investigator at the National Dental Research Institute Singapore and Professor and Director of Academic Clinical Programme Oral Health, Health Services and Systems Research Programme, and SingHealth Duke-NUS Global Health Institute, Duke-NUS Medical School, Singapore. His research areas of interest include global health, the effectiveness of health-related policies, health services research, inequalities in health, life course epidemiology and the relationship between oral health and general health. He was the President of the International Association for Dental, Oral and Craniofacial Research Global Oral Health Inequalities Research Network and a member of the Lancet Commission on Oral Health. Marco has been cited among the top 2% of scientists worldwide in 2021 and 2022. He received the 2017 International Association for Dental Research (IADR) Distinguished Scientist Award for Global Oral Health Research. Marco has supervised over 40 postgraduate students and authored three books, 12 book chapters and over 300 peer-reviewed papers. His work has received more than 26,000 citations and an H index of 85. Marco received in 2023 the prestigious NMRC Singaporean Translational Research Award (STaR).