Katherine (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. Her current research is exploring the interaction between evidence-based and deliberative, ,citzen focused approaches to public health policy debates.
