The Good Society – And How We Make it
A fairer, healthier, more caring and sustainable society is entirely within our grasp. This talk helps to show us the way.
• How do we ensure that everyone has good health and receives the care they need?
• How do we provide education that allows every child to flourish?
• How do we ensure safety, justice and a sustainable environment for all?
Kate Pickett is a world-leading social scientist whose life’s work has been to identify the underlying causes of society’s most important problems – and the long-term solutions that will actually work.
In this inspiring talk, she shows that to make a good society – in which everyone has what they need to be well, and everyone would be better off – we must prioritise the health, care, education and rehabilitation of those who have the least and suffer the most. This means confronting once and for all the fundamental problems of poverty and inequality that lie behind all the others.
Kate’s lecture will engage with her recent book, The Good Society, which draws on over three decades of evidence, and an array of proven solutions and real-world success stories from across the globe, to discuss the essence of the challenges we face and presents us with a practical, galvanising, perspective-shifting vision for how to tackle them.
About Professor Kate Pickett
Kate Pickett is a British epidemiologist and political activist and Professor of Epidemiology in the Department of Health Sciences at the University of York. She leads the Public Health & Society research group and is Director of the Born in Bradford Center for Social Change. She is also an academic co-director of Health Equity North. Kate trained in biological anthropology at the University of Cambridge, nutritional sciences at Cornell University and epidemiology at the University of California, Berkeley. She was a National Institute for Health and Care Research Career Scientist from 2007 to 2012.She is a Fellow of the RSA, the UK Faculty of Public Health and the Academy of Social Sciences. She is best known for her work on social inequalities and health and is co-author, with Richard Wilkinson, of the award-winning and bestselling books The Spirit Level (2009) and The Inner Level (2018).The Spirit Level received the Publication of the Year award from the Political Studies Association and was named among the Top Ten Books of the Decade by the New Statesman and one of the top 100 books of the century by the Guardian. Kate is a co-founder and patron of The Equality Trust. In 2023, she was awarded an OBE for services to societal equality.
Find out more about Professor Kate Pickett:
https://www.york.ac.uk/health-sciences/people/kate-pickett/
Panel Discussion, Q&A and Reception
The lecture will be followed by a panel discussion and audience Q&A, providing an opportunity to explore the themes raised during the lecture and engage directly with our speakers. A canapés and drinks reception will follow the lecture, offering an opportunity for networking, discussion and further conversation.
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