Mark has spent the past 43 years engaging with the health and welfare sectors in various roles: as practitioner, manager, client or client advocate, researcher and public servant. For most of his working career, Mark was a senior manager at the Australian Institute of Health and Welfare.
He has a PhD (University of Melbourne) with thesis titled ‘Optimal policy for equitable access to residential aged care in Australia’. His earlier degree was in cognitive science (ANU).
Mark has been a member of the AAG ACT Division executive committee since 2019 (most of that time as Secretary), and is keen to build on that role with a term on the national Board of Directors.
His main expertise is in developing and managing statistical collections, with associated data governance and ‘statistical storytelling’—recently that has been focussed on aged care policy (related to his PhD research).