From Inequality to Future Wellbeing: unlocking human flourishing and planetary health

Professor Kate Pickett, Professor of Epidemiology at the University of York, will give the Institute of Public Health and Wellbeing (IPHW) Annual Lecture 2025.

There will be time for Q&A after the lecture, followed by a reception, to allow further time for discussions and networking.

This is a hybrid event and guests are welcome to join in-person or online. For those joining online, a link will be sent separately.

Agenda:

3-4pm: annual lecture with Q&A

4-5pm: reception and networking

Speaker biography:

Kate Pickett OBE FRSA FFPH FAcSS is Professor of Epidemiology at the University of York, where she leads the Public Health & Society Research Group, the York Cost of Living Research Group, the Born in Bradford Centre for Social Change, and is Associate Director of the Leverhulme Centre for Anthropocene Biodiversity. She is also academic director of Health Equity North. Kate is a Fellow of the RSA, the UK Faculty of Public Health and the British Academy of Social Sciences. A social epidemiologist, Kate’s research focuses on the wider determinants of health and inequalities in wellbeing. Kate is co-author, with Richard Wilkinson, of the bestselling and award winning The Spirit Level (2009) and The Inner Level (2018). In 2023, she received an OBE in the King’s New Year’s Honours List for services to societal equality.

IPHW Annual Lecture: From Inequality to Future Wellbeing