Kat Smith is a Professor of Public Health Policy based in the Department of Social Work and Social Policy at Strathclyde, where she Co-Directs the Centre for Health Policy and co-leads the new Health Foundation funded Scottish Health Equity Research Unit (SHERU). She also leads a new CSO Applied Health Research Programme focusing on the health-justice nexus in Scotland, and is part of SIPHER, a UKPRP funded consortium working to support an upstream shift in policy responses to health inequalities via systems science, and the UKRI’s Population Health Improvement UK, where she is working with others to explore the role of models in economic and health policy. Supported by the Social Policy Association Opportunity Grant, Kat recently collaborated with Ellen Stewart to run two witness seminars reflecting on the lessons emerging from 25 years of health policy devolution in Scotland. Key publications include ‘Health Inequalities: Critical Perspectives’ (Oxford University Press 2016, BMA public health book of the year), The Unequal Pandemic – COVID-19 and Health Inequalities (Policy Press, 2021 – available open access), ‘Under attack? Public accounts of health inequalities and the social determinants of health in Scotland’ (Journal of Critical Public Health – open access), and Getting Better: The Policy & Politics of Reducing Health Inequalities (Policy Press, due for release in May 2025).