Kate Pickett
Professor of Epidemiology
Profile
Biography
Kate trained in biological anthropology at University of Cambridge, nutritional sciences at Cornell University and epidemiology at UC-Berkeley. She is currently Professor of Epidemiology in the Department of Health Sciences, where she leads the Public Health & Society research group and Associate Director of the Leverhulme Centre for Anthropocene Biodiversity, all at the 甜瓜视频app. She is an academic co-director of Health Equity North.
Kate is a Fellow of the RSA and of the UK Faculty of Public Health and the Academy of Social Sciences. She is co-author, with Richard Wilkinson, of the award-winning and best-selling The Spirit Level (2009) and The Inner Level (2018). The Spirit Level was awarded Publication of the Year by the Political Studies Association, chosen as one of the Top Ten Books of the Decade by the New Statesman, and one of the top 100 books of the century by the Guardian. She is a co-founder and patron of . In 2023, Kate received an OBE for services to societal equality.
Qualifications
- BA (Hons)
- MS
- PhD
Research
Research group(s)
Supervision
- Kate supervises students interested in the social determinants of health and health inequalities
Publications
Full publications list
Commentary and Reports
Appendices to Published Papers
- Appendix for Income Inequality and Health: A Casual Review (PDF
, 179kb) (Emerging Behaviours and Social Science Perspectives on Population Health)
External activities
Memberships
- Board Member -
- Executive Board,
- Associate, INRICH ()
- Member,
- Member, Campaign for Childhood Committee,
- Advisory Group,
- Expert Panel, High Pay Commission, 2010-2011
- Commissioner, , 2011
- Expert advisory panel, Preparing for Pregnancy, Birth and Beyond, Department of Health, 2009-2010
- Steering Group, Impact of inequality and materialism on children鈥檚 well-being. Ipsos-Mori and Unicef UK, 2010-2011
- Steering Committee,
Invited talks and conferences
- Invited by the King of Bhutan to take part in a United Nations project based around the concept of Gross National Happiness (GNH), February 2013.
- 138 keynote addresses since 2009, including in UK, USA, Brazil, Australia, New Zealand, Czech Republic, Sweden, Austria, Belgium, Ireland, Italy and Germany.
