Kate Pickett trained in biological anthropology at Cambridge, nutritional sciences at Cornell and epidemiology at UC-Berkeley. She is currently Professor of Epidemiology in the Department of Health Sciences, and the University’s Research Champion for Justice and Equality. Kate Pickett was an UK NIHR Career Scientist from 2007-12, is a Fellow of the RSA and a Fellow of the UK Faculty of Public Health. She is co-author, with Richard Wilkinson, of The Spirit Level chosen as one of the Top Ten Books of the Decade by the New Statesman, winner of Publication of the Year by the Political Studies Association and translated into 23 languages. She is a co-founder and trustee of The Equality Trust.
Her page on the University of York website.
Twitter: @ProfKEPickett
Full publications list
Commentary and Reports
- British Academy opinion piece on health inequality, January 2014
- Comment in Nature, January 2014
- A call for change: from the crisis to a new egalitarian ideal for Europe
Appendices to Published Papers
- Appendix for Income Inequality and Health: A Casual Review (PDF , 179kb) (Emerging Behaviours and Social Science Perspectives on Population Health)
Memberships
- Board Member – Scientific Board to the Progressive Economy
- Executive Board, Born in Bradford Cohort Study
- Associate, INRICH (International Network for Research on Inequalities in Child Health)
- Member, Human Capital Research Working Group, Institute for New Economic Thinking
- Member, Campaign for Childhood Committee, The Children’s Society
- Advisory Group, European Union Equity Action
- Expert Panel, High Pay Commission, 2010-2011
- Commissioner, York Fairness Commission, 2011
- Expert advisory panel, Preparing for Pregnancy, Birth and Beyond, Department of Health, 2009-2010
- Steering Group, Impact of inequality and materialism on children’s well-being. Ipsos-Mori and Unicef UK, 2010-2011