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2023

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44
Citations
6301
World Ranking
388
National Ranking
59

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2023 - Research.com Political Science in United Kingdom Leader Award

Overview

Katherine E. Smith is affiliated with the University of Strathclyde in the United Kingdom. Their research primarily spans the fields of Health Professions and Social Sciences, with a significant focus on General Health Professions, Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management, Health, Management Science and Operations Research, and Political Science and International Relations.

The main topics covered in Smith's research include:

  • Global Public Health Policies and Epidemiology
  • Health disparities and outcomes
  • Evaluation and Performance Assessment
  • Employment and Welfare Studies
  • Obesity and Health Practices
  • Smoking Behavior and Cessation
  • Family and Patient Care in Intensive Care Units

Some of the recent papers authored or co-authored by Smith are:

  • Public understandings of potential policy responses to health inequalities: Evidence from a UK national survey and citizens' juries in three UK cities, 2021, Social Science & Medicine
  • An atlas of health inequalities and health disparities research: "How is this all getting done in silos, and why?", 2020, Social Science & Medicine
  • Falling down the rabbit hole? Methodological, conceptual and policy issues in current health inequalities research, 2022, Critical Public Health
  • Governance of Intersectoral Collaborations for Population Health and to Reduce Health Inequalities in High-Income Countries: A Complexity-Informed Systematic Review, 2022, International Journal of Health Policy and Management
  • What are the care needs of families experiencing cardiac arrest?: A survivor and family led scoping review, 2021, Resuscitation

Smith has collaborated frequently with co-authors including Clare Bambra, Julia Lynch, Ellen Stewart, Justyna Bandola-Gill, and Richard Watermeyer.

Thevenues where Smith has frequently published include:

  • Policy Press eBooks
  • BMJ
  • Evidence & Policy
  • HRB Open Research
  • Social Science & Medicine

Regarding book publications, Smith has multiple titles published primarily with Policy Press, including:

  • The Impact Agenda (2020)
  • The Unequal Pandemic (2021)
  • Getting Better (2025)

Additional books are published by Bristol University Press eBooks and the University of Glasgow, with titles reflecting similar themes in health and social sciences.

Best Publications

  • Problematising power relations in ‘elite’ interviews

    Katherine E. Smith

  • Beyond Evidence Based Policy in Public Health: The Interplay of Ideas

    Katherine Smith

  • Beyond Evidence Based Policy in Public Health

    Katherine Smith

  • Policy lessons from health taxes: a systematic review of empirical studies

    Alexandra Wright;Katherine E. Smith;Mark Hellowell

  • What is known about tobacco industry efforts to influence tobacco tax? A systematic review of empirical studies

    Katherine E Smith;Emily Savell;Anna B Gilmore;Anna B Gilmore

  • Corporate Social Responsibility and Access to Policy Elites: An Analysis of Tobacco Industry Documents

    Gary J. Fooks;Anna B. Gilmore;Anna B. Gilmore;Katherine E. Smith;Jeff Collin

  • Rethinking policy 'impact' : four models of research policy relations

    Christina Boswell;Katherine E. Smith

  • WHO technical manual on tobacco tax administration

    Katherine E. Smith

  • Scaling up: The politics of health and place.

    Clare Bambra;Katherine E Smith;Jamie Pearce

  • The impact of Thatcherism on health and well-being in Britain

    Alex Scott-Samuel;Clare Bambra;Chik Collins;David J Hunter

  • Groupwise Diffeomorphic Non-rigid Registration for Automatic Model Building

    Timothy F. Cootes;Stephen Marsland;Carole J. Twining;Kate Smith

  • Partners in health? A systematic review of the impact of organizational partnerships on public health outcomes in England between 1997 and 2008

    K. E. Smith;C. Bambra;K. E. Joyce;N. Perkins

  • A labour of Sisyphus? Public policy and health inequalities research from the Black and Acheson Reports to the Marmot Review

    Clare Bambra;Katherine E Smith;Kayleigh Garthwaite;Kerry E Joyce

  • Research, Policy and Funding - Academic treadmills and the squeeze on intellectual spaces

    Katherine E. Smith

  • “Working the system” —British American Tobacco's influence on the European Union Treaty and its implications for policy: an analysis of internal tobacco industry documents

    Katherine E. Smith;Gary Fooks;Jeffrey Collin;Heide Weishaar

  • A glossary of theories for understanding policymaking

    Katherine Elizabeth Smith;Srinivasa Vittal Katikireddi

  • Capturing complex realities: understanding efforts to achieve evidence-based policy and practice in public health

    Katherine E. Smith;Kerry E. Joyce

  • Health inequalities: the need to move beyond bad behaviours

    Srinivasa Vittal Katikireddi;Martin Higgins;Katherine Elizabeth Smith;Gareth Williams

  • 'What Counts is What Works’? New Labour and Partnerships in Public Health

    Neil Perkins;Katherine Smith;David J. Hunter;Clare Bambra

  • Why media representations of corporations matter for public health policy: a scoping review

    Heide Weishaar;Lori Dorfman;Nicholas Freudenberg;Benjamin Hawkins

  • No longer deserving? sickness benefit reform and the politics of (ill) health

    Clare Bambra;Katherine E. Smith

  • Health Inequalities: Critical Perspectives

    Katherine E. Smith;Clare Bambra;Sarah E. Hill

  • Is the increasing policy use of Impact Assessment in Europe likely to undermine efforts to achieve healthy public policy

    Katherine E Smith;Gary Fooks;Jeff Collin;Heide Weishaar

  • Global health governance and the commercial sector: a documentary analysis of tobacco company strategies to influence the WHO framework convention on tobacco control.

    Heide Weishaar;Jeffrey Collin;Katherine Smith;Thilo Grüning

  • The public health system in England

    David J. Hunter;Linda Marks;Katherine E. Smith

  • The Unequal Pandemic: COVID-19 and Health Inequalities

    Clare Bambra;Julia Lynch;Katherine E. Smith

Frequent Co-Authors

Anna B Gilmore
Anna B Gilmore University of Bath
Clare Bambra
Clare Bambra Newcastle University
Nasar Meer
Nasar Meer University of Glasgow
Jamie Pearce
Jamie Pearce University of Edinburgh
Srinivasa Vittal Katikireddi
Srinivasa Vittal Katikireddi University of Glasgow
Benjamin Hawkins
Benjamin Hawkins University of Cambridge
Martin McKee
Martin McKee London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine
Alan Brennan
Alan Brennan University of Sheffield
Linda Bauld
Linda Bauld University of Edinburgh
Laurence Moore
Laurence Moore University of Glasgow

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