Dr Mark Drane

Mark is an experienced practitioner and researcher with 20 years’ experience. He works across the fields of public health, urbanism, and architecture. His work addresses the wider determinants of health, focused on promoting holistic wellbeing, and reducing health inequities. His doctoral research, Healthy Streetlife, undertaken during the Covid-19 pandemic highlights the important role of streets as health settings. Mark is a practitioner and founded Urban Habitats in 2018, putting research into action in local places. He is a board member at Green Squirrel, a social enterprise with a vision for caring communities. Mark has 20+ years’ experience in industry having contributed to the delivery of over $2 billion of social infrastructure. Now his passion is to fuse practice and research with evidence informed, co-created, & community-based interventions for human & planetary health. Happiest whilst on a bicycle, Mark is an optimistic gardener and lives in Cardiff, Wales with his family.