Rate My Professor Erica Cook

Erica Cook’s research specializations include equity of access to healthcare for underserved populations, patient experiences of healthcare, technology adoption in healthcare and intervention delivery, and developing and evaluating complex interventions. Her work covers health inequalities in access to services for Roma communities and ethnic minorities, palliative and end-of-life care, barriers and facilitators to organ donation among diverse groups, urban greenspace use, weight management interventions, and child maltreatment and metabolic syndrome. She co-authored the textbooks ‘Health Psychology: The Basics’ (2020) and ‘Psychology Express: Health Psychology’. Key publications include “Barriers and facilitators of deceased organ donation among Muslims living globally: An integrative systematic review” (Al-Abdulghani et al., Transplantation Reviews, 2024), “Community readiness to address disparities in access to cancer, palliative and end-of-life care for ethnic minorities” (Wainwright et al., BMC Public Health, 2024), “Child maltreatment and metabolic syndrome: A systematic review” (Osode et al., Diabetes, Metabolic Syndrome and Obesity, 2024), and “Factors influencing urban greenspace use among a multi-ethnic community in the UK: The Chalkscapes Study” (Cook et al., Urban Forestry & Urban Greening, 2024). With over 900 citations, she serves as Associate Editor for PLoS One, member of the Division of Health Psychology Training Committee, NIHR Public Health Research Applications Design Advisor since 2020, and reviewer for NIHR programmes and journals.