Kat Smith

Kat Smith is a Reader at the University of Edinburgh, where she is Director of the Global Public Health Unit and Co-Director of SKAPE (the Centre for Science, Knowledge and Policy). Over the past 12 years Kat’s main research focus has been the construction, circulation and impact on policy of academic and other ‘expert’ knowledges. She has written over 50 peer reviewed journal articles and three books examining who tries to influence the policies that shape our health, how and why. More recently, she is begun exploring public interactions with research and policy debates about public health, particularly in relation to health inequalities.