Draft:Jonathan Kennedy

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• Comment: Not yet notable per WP:NAUTHOR. I propose redirecting to his notable book, Pathogenesis: A history of the world in eight plagues. Safari Scribe^{Edits! Talk!} 08:31, 11 October 2024 (UTC)

Jonathan Kennedy is a British writer and academic who works at Barts and The London School of Medicine and Dentistry, Queen Mary University of London.^[1] He has a PhD in sociology from the University of Cambridge, and his research uses insights from sociology, political economy, anthropology, and international relations to analyse important public health problems.^[2]

Kennedy is the author of Pathogenesis: A History of the World in Eight Plagues (UK subtitle: How germs made history), which was published by Penguin in 2023.^[3][4] The Observer referred to Kennedy as "the man rewriting history from the perspective of germs",^[5] and Haaretz called him "The Professor Who Says Yuval Noah Harari Is Wrong".^[6] Pathogenesis was a national bestseller in the USA and UK.^[7][8] It featured in The Sunday Times' Best science and environment books of 2023,^[9] and Amazon's Best science books of 2023.^[10] It was also nominated in the Goodreads Choice Awards 2023 under the History and Biography category.^[11] The book was serialised on BBC Radio 4's Book of the Week.^[12]

Kennedy's academic research explores the link between politics and health. An influential study published in the European Journal of Public Health demonstrates that EU countries with the highest levels of support for populist political parties also have the highest levels of vaccine hesitancy.^{[13][14][15][16][17][18]} Another study published in Lancet Global Health explores the 2016–2022 Yemen cholera outbreak, showing that the infection rate and case fatality rate were significantly higher in areas controlled by Houthi rebels due to the Saudi-led coalition's strategy of blockading and bombing civilian infrastructure in these areas.^[19][20][21] His research on farmers' suicides in India demonstrates that farmers who grow cash crops, have small landholdings, and high levels of indebtedness are most likely to take their own lives.^[22][23][24]

Kennedy regularly writes about the link between public health and politics in the media, including in The Guardian,^[25] London Review of Books,^[26] Al Jazeera,^[27] Project Syndicate,^[28] and El País.^[29][30]