Professor Stephani Hatch

Professor Stephani Hatch is the vice dean for culture, diversity and inclusion and professor of sociology and epidemiology leading the Health Inequalities Research Group at the Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology & Neuroscience, King's College London. 

Professor Hatch works across sectors to deliver interdisciplinary health inequalities research and action with an emphasis on race at the intersection of other social identities, integrating collaborative approaches to knowledge production, dissemination, action and outreach in training and research through the Health Inequalities Research Network (HERON), since 2010.  

She leads the Wellcome and ESRC funded Tackling Inequalities and Discrimination Experiences in Health Services (TIDES) study and co-leads the Health and Social Equity Collective and the Marginalised Communities programme within the ESRC Centre for Society and Mental Health. 

Professor Hatch holds national and international advisory roles including: member of the MQ Mental Health Sciences Council; the NHS Race and Health Observatory Board (and co-chair of the RHO Academic Reference Group); the NHS England and Improvement Advancing Mental Health Equalities Taskforce (chair, Mental Health Equalities Data Quality and Research Subgroup); and advisor for the NHSE Anti-Racism Project Engagement and Oversight Group with the deputy chief nursing officer for England, Nursing and Midwifery Council and NHS Confederation.