Kate Pickett

Kate Pickett FRSA FFPH, leads the Public Health & Society research group, and is Deputy Director of the Centre for Future Health and Associate Director of the Leverhulme Centre for Anthropocene Biodiversity, all at the University of York. She is co-author, with Richard Wilkinson, of the bestselling The Spirit Level (2009) and The Inner Level (2018). Kate is co-PI for the current Born in Bradford sweep funded by the MRC and ESRC, associate director of Born in Bradford’s Better Start Innovation Hub, and lead for the Healthy Livelihoods theme for ActEarly. Within the Y&H ARC she co-leads the Early Years and Prevention theme.