Mark Brooks OBE

Mark is a sector leader, thought leader, commentators, spokesperson and, policy and communications adviser in the fields of men’s health, inclusion, wellbeing and domestic abuse. His work includes:

• Senior Communications and Policy Advisor: Men and Boys’ Health, Inclusion and Domestic Abuse
• Trustee: Men and Boys Coalition charity
• Chair: The ManKind Initiative (domestic abuse charity for male victims) 
• Policy Advisor: All-Party Parliamentary Group on Men and Boys Issues
• National Ambassador: International Men’s Day UK

His work ranges from advising employers, charities, government, parliamentarians, think tanks, representative bodies and statutory agencies/boards. This includes advising on policy, marketing, communications campaigns to support help-seeking, service access and inclusion/culture change. He also writes reports, articles and speeches (including for others), and, speaks at and chairs conferences. He is regularly featured in the media and has won awards for his campaigning work.

He has played a key role in creating a men’s health and wellbeing sector, and a male domestic abuse sector. This includes the government’s commitment to improving men’s health which was underpinned by his reports on this issue and on male suicide. 

For the past 15 years, he has led the creation of the male domestic abuse sector across the UK through being chair of the ManKind Initiative charity. He received an OBE in 2019 for his work in this field.  Mark is also a qualified domestic abuse services manager and in the past few years has created the national practitioners’ community network for male victims and lead the development of  National Service Standards.  He is an expert panel member on a range of domestic homicide reviews for male victims of domestic abuse across England and also a member of the Government’s (DLUHC) expert panel member on a range of domestic homicide reviews across the UK.

Mark leads the world-leading International Men’s Day UK platform (a national event with over 600 organisations involved) 

 He is the policy advisor for the All-Party Parliamentary Group on Issues Affecting Men and Boys.  He has recently written well-received policy papers on a men’s health strategy, male suicide prevention and boys’ education. He has been the key driver in the campaign for a Minister for Men and Boys with led the call for the recent government announcements on a men’s health ambassador, a task and finish group on men’s access to the health services and revamped NHS pages which men use. 

In the past he commissioned the very first Shaw Trust Disability Power 100 awards and remains a founding trustee of the Men and Boys Coalition charity, a network of over 120 academics, charities and leaders in the field of men’s health and wellbeing. 

Mark is a Member of the Chartered Institute of Public Relations, and is currently providing communications support to  a skills trade body and has previously been the director/head of communications at two large national charities. 

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Mark is available to:

Below are a wide range of the marketing communication and public policy campaign areas that Mark can advise on with respect to male help-seeking, service access and culture change/inclusion.