Bradley Kreit was born in San Francisco and grew up in Oakland, California. Taken by an urge to explore other parts of the country, he moved to Connecticut for college and moved and traveled around the United States before settling happily back in the Bay Area.

At Connecticut College, Bradley studied cultural and political history with an emphasis on economic development in the Americas. Bradley first became interested in health care while working as a medical reporter in Washington, D.C., and when he attended graduate school, he decided to focus on researching social and cultural dynamics in medicine. As a graduate student in Anthropology at UC San Diego, he focused on culture and public policy and wrote his Master’s thesis on how workplace attitudes contributed to the creation of the private health insurance market in the United States. He also taught undergraduate courses in health and public policy. He has also worked as a web editor for a Silicon Valley startup.

Bradley joined the Institute for the Future as a Research Manager in the Health Horizons program in 2009. His research at IFTF builds on his background in anthropology and history by exploring how everyday challenges, decisions and contexts shape long-term futures--both in individual lives and at larger scales. He primarily researches issues involving food, health and biological identity.