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Kate E. Pickett is affiliated with the University of York in the United Kingdom and has contributed extensively to research in health professions, social sciences, and psychology. Their work covers diverse aspects including general health professions, clinical psychology, and pediatrics, perinatology, and child health.

Their research addresses several main topics, such as:

  • Health disparities and outcomes
  • Food Security and Health in Diverse Populations
  • COVID-19 and Mental Health
  • Employment and Welfare Studies
  • Psychological Well-being and Life Satisfaction
  • Infant Development and Preterm Care
  • Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development

Some of the recent papers they are associated with include:

  • Understanding COVID-19 misinformation and vaccine hesitancy in context: Findings from a qualitative study involving citizens in Bradford, UK (2021) - published in Health Expectations
  • The Caregiver Health Effects of Caring for Young Children with Developmental Disabilities: A Meta-analysis (2020) - published in Maternal and Child Health Journal
  • Wellbeing economy: An effective paradigm to mainstream post-growth policies? (2021) - published in Ecological Economics
  • How COVID-19 has exposed inequalities in the UK food system: The case of UK food and poverty (2020) - published in Emerald Open Research
  • How Covid-19 has exposed inequalities in the UK food system: The case of UK food and poverty (2020) - published in Emerald Open Research

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Kate E. Pickett include:

  • Rosemary McEachan
  • Josie Dickerson
  • John Wright
  • Brian Kelly
  • Maria Bryant

The primary publication venues where they have published repeatedly include:

  • Wellcome Open Research (20 publications)
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory) (6 publications)
  • PLoS ONE (6 publications)
  • Emerald Open Research (5 publications)
  • Journal of Poverty and Social Justice (3 publications)

In addition to journal articles, Kate E. Pickett has contributed to books published by Policy Press, with three titles including Basic Income (2025) and The Unequal Pandemic (2021).

Best Publications

  • The Spirit Level: Why More Equal Societies Almost Always Do Better

    Richard G. Wilkinson;Kate E. Pickett

  • The spirit level : why equality is better for everyone

    Richard G. Wilkinson;Kate E. Pickett

  • Multilevel Analyses of Neighbourhood Socioeconomic Context and Health Outcomes: a Critical Review

    K E Pickett;M Pearl

  • Income inequality and population health: a review and explanation of the evidence.

    Richard G Wilkinson;Kate E. Pickett

  • Income inequality and health: a causal review.

    Kate E. Pickett;Richard G. Wilkinson

  • The spirit level : why greater equality makes societies stronger

    Richard G. Wilkinson;Kate E. Pickett;Robert B. Reich

  • Income Inequality and Social Dysfunction

    Richard G. Wilkinson;Kate E. Pickett

  • Modelling and measuring sustainable wellbeing in connection with the UN Sustainable Development Goals

    Robert Costanza;Lew Daly;Lorenzo Fioramonti;Enrico Giovannini

  • Development: Time to leave GDP behind

    Robert Costanza;Ida Kubiszewski;Enrico Giovannini;Hunter Lovins

  • The problems of relative deprivation: why some societies do better than others.

    Richard G. Wilkinson;Kate E. Pickett

  • Cohort Profile: The Born in Bradford multi-ethnic family cohort study

    John Wright;Neil Small;Pauline Raynor;Derek Tuffnell

  • The Inner Level: How More Equal Societies Reduce Stress, Restore Sanity and Improve Everyone's Well-Being

    Richard G. Wilkinson;Kate E. Pickett

  • Maternal smoking during pregnancy and severe antisocial behavior in offspring: a review.

    Lauren S. Wakschlag;Kate E. Pickett;Edwin Cook;Neal L. Benowitz

  • Wider income gaps, wider waistbands? An ecological study of obesity and income inequality

    Kate E Pickett;Shona Kelly;Eric Brunner;Tim Lobstein

  • Effectiveness of a nurse-led intensive home-visitation programme for first-time teenage mothers (Building Blocks): a pragmatic randomised controlled trial

    Michael Robling;Marie-Jet Bekkers;Kerry Bell;Christopher C Butler

  • Inequality: an underacknowledged source of mental illness and distress.

    Kate E. Pickett;Richard G. Wilkinson

  • A systematic review of the relationships between social capital and socioeconomic inequalities in health: a contribution to understanding the psychosocial pathway of health inequalities

    Eleonora P Uphoff;Kate E Pickett;Baltica Cabieses;Baltica Cabieses;Neil Small

  • Child wellbeing and income inequality in rich societies: ecological cross sectional study

    Kate E Pickett;Richard G Wilkinson

  • People like us: ethnic group density effects on health.

    Kate E Pickett;Richard G Wilkinson

  • Income inequality and socioeconomic gradients in mortality

    Richard G. Wilkinson;Kate E. Pickett

Frequent Co-Authors

Richard G. Wilkinson
Richard G. Wilkinson University of Nottingham
Neil Small
Neil Small University of Bradford
Lauren S. Wakschlag
Lauren S. Wakschlag Northwestern University
Rosemary R. C. McEachan
Rosemary R. C. McEachan National Health Service
Debbie A. Lawlor
Debbie A. Lawlor University of Bristol
Robert Costanza
Robert Costanza University College London
Kathleen Kiernan
Kathleen Kiernan University of York
Claire O'Malley
Claire O'Malley Teesside University
Brian Kelly
Brian Kelly University of Newcastle Australia
Jan Stochl
Jan Stochl University of Cambridge

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