Dr. Mark Kaplan is a professor of community health at Portland State University. He also holds adjunct appointments in psychiatry at the Oregon Health & Science University and in epidemiology and community medicine at the University of Ottawa.

Dr. Kaplan received his doctorate in public health from the University of California, Berkeley, and holds masters' degrees in social work and public health with postdoctoral training in preventive medicine at the University of Southern California. He has written widely on public health issues. His recent research, funded by the National Institutes of Health and private foundations, has focused on using population-wide data to understand health-related quality of life in older age.

Dr. Kaplan has testified before Congress on veterans' health, and was appointed by the secretary of the US Department of Veterans Affairs to a nine-member expert panel working the Blue Ribbon Work Group on Suicide Prevention in the Veterans Population. As a 2004 Fulbright Scholar in Ottawa, Canada, Dr. Kaplan studied the Canadian approach to population health and healthcare. He is a member of editorial boards that include the International Journal of Men's Health.