Mark completed his PhD in sociology in 2005 at the Institute of Education, University of London (now part of University College London). Before his PhD, Mark worked as a psychologist in clinical settings and in HIV prevention and research. During his PhD, he worked on public health research at Royal Free and UCL Medical School; Imperial College Medical School, and; Institute of Health Sciences, City University, London. Directly before coming to Monash University in 2007, Mark taught in the psychosocial studies programme at the University of East London.

Mark leads an interdisciplinary programme of research on general and minority public engagements with biomedical science and technology, focussed particularly on infection and immunity, pharmaceuticals, and digital health. His research has been funded by grants from the UK's Economic and Social Research Council and National Health Service, and the Australian Research Council. He leads an international ARC Discovery Project and is chief investigator on an ARC Linkage Project, both of which investigate the sociology of antibiotics and antimicrobial resistance to better inform efforts to reduce the social and economic burdens of drug-resistant infections.

Mark supervises Honours, Masters and PhD projects on:

• health education and health promotion
• gender, sexual and cultural diversity
• public health policy
• health media and communications
• digital health
• HIV
• sexual health
• pandemic influenza
• antibiotics and antimicrobial resistance
• narrative methods in the social sciences
• critical discourse analysis
• assemblage theory
• science and technology studies

ATS3715 Sexuality & Society

ATS3717 Health, Culture & Society