Kate Pickett

Kate Pickett is a Senior Lecturer at the University of York and a National Institute for Health Research Career Scientist. She studied physical anthropology at Cambridge, nutritional sciences at Cornell and epidemiology at Berkeley before spending four years as an Assistant Professor at the University of Chicago. She has published research on a wide range of topics from the effects of smoking during pregnancy to the effects of income inequality on public health. She is the author, with Richard Wilkinson, of The Spirit Level: Why more equal societies almost always do better (2009).