Recent publications

Kirchhelle, C., Alas Portillo, M., Davis, M.D.M, Doron, A., Dreser, A., Fortané, N., Haddad, C., Hinchliffe, S., Kariuki, S., Lewycka, S., Molyneux, S., Moreno Lozano, C., Mutua, E., Okeke, I., Zhang Betancourt, M. and Chandler, C.I.R (accepted for publication 20 November 2025), (Un)intended Consequences: A Social Sciences Stocktake of a Decade of Global Action Plan-inspired Antimicrobial Governance, The Lancet Microbe.

Camporesi, S., Mulubale, S. and Davis, M. (2025) Researching COVID-19 narratives, in Camporesi, S., Mulubale, S. and Davis, M. eds (2025) Crisis, Inequity and Legacy: Narrative Analyses of the COVID-19 Pandemic, NYC: Oxford University Press.

Mulubale, S., Silvia Camporesi, S. and Davis, M. (2025) Valuing pandemic narrations: analytical plurality, the COVID inequity crisis and narrative ethics, in Camporesi, S., Mulubale, S. and Davis, M. eds (2025) Crisis, Inequity and Legacy: Narrative Analyses of the COVID-19 Pandemic, NYC: Oxford University Press.

Medical sociology lead for the Monash Centre to Impact AMR

External Advisory Board member for the Transdisciplinary Antimicrobial Resistance Genomics Network (TARGetAMR)

Zimbabwe born, Mark was schooled in Australia and undertook postgraduate education in England. Mark began his career as a psychologist in clinical settings and in community-based HIV prevention and research. He conducted HIV and HCV prevention and treatment research at Royal Free and University College Medical School, Imperial College Medical School and the Institute of Health Sciences, City University London. He taught psychosocial studies at the University of East London and teaches sociology and narrative methods at Monash University.

Mark’s research, education and leadership focusses on social public health, with reference to publics and their engagements with bioscience, lived experience-led policy design and the participation of underserved and minoritised groups. His research has been supported with funding from the UK’s ESRC, and the ARC and MRFF in Australia. He collaborates with government and community-based decision-makers and providers to shape public health policy and practice.  

Mark is recognised for his narrative public health approach. With Davina Lohm, Mark published Pandemics, Public and Narrative (OUP) in 2020. Mark’s 2022 book Selling Immunity: Self, Culture and Economy in Healthcare and Medicine was shortlisted for the 2025 Foundation for the Sociology of Health Illness book prize. In 2025, he published  Crisis, Inequity and Legacy: Narrative Analyses of the COVID-19 Pandemic (OUP), co-edited with Silvia Camporesi (KU Leuven) and Sanny Mulubale (University of Zambia).

Currently, his research examines publics and their engagements with scientific and popular culture concepts of immunity and human microbiomes (ARC DP250100827) and the ethico-epistemological production of queer health data systems (ARC DP230100245).

He is a member of the Australian Psychological Society (elected 1989), the British Sociological Association, the International Sociological Association, and associate member of the Royal Society of Medicine.

Mark supervises doctoral research in the fields of health and society, sexualities, and narrative methods in the social sciences. Topics have included, Facebook friendships, Sorry Day narratives, parenting children with severe emotional distress, cigarette advertising in Indonesia, mid-twentieth century public health film on TB and malaria, self-tracking tech, and refugee mental health support.

ATS3618 Global health

APG5164 Global health