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Professor Vittal Katikireddi is a leading academic in Public Health & Health Inequalities at the University of Glasgow's School of Health & Wellbeing. He holds a Professorship at the MRC/CSO Social & Public Health Sciences Unit and serves as an honorary Consultant in Public Health Scotland. His work focuses on improving evidence-based public policy and understanding social determinants of health through quantitative and mixed-methods approaches.
Trained at the University of Edinburgh (MBChB 2004), he completed public health training at NHS Lothian (MSc 2009, MFPH 2010) with WHO/Scottish Government attachments. His PhD explored policy-evidence linkages in public health.
Key research areas include health equity, economic determinants of health, and climate change impacts. He leads the European Research Council-funded HEED project and co-leads the NIHR Policy Innovation Research Unit (PIRU) on inequalities. His work spans global health collaborations (UK, Brazil, Ecuador) and utilizes large-scale data linkage (e.g., Understanding Society).
Awarded over 300 publications, he chairs international advisory boards (e.g., Lancet Public Health) and served on UK SAGE during the pandemic. Recognized with major honors including the Royal Society of Edinburgh Fellowship and Cochrane Collaboration’s Thomas C Chalmers Award.
