Rate My Professor Katriina Whitaker

Whitaker has published extensively on these topics in high-impact journals. Key publications include 'The role of smoking status in making risk-informed diagnostic decisions for potential lung cancer: a qualitative study of healthcare professionals and patients' (2024), 'Understanding and tackling cancer inequities: What opportunities does intersectionality offer researchers, policymakers, and providers? A scoping review' (2024), 'Delivery of interpreting services in UK primary care by population needs: a multisite case study' (2026), 'Assessing awareness of blood cancer symptoms and barriers to symptomatic presentation: measure development and results from a population survey in the UK' (2023), 'Help seeking for cancer 'alarm' symptoms: a qualitative interview study of primary care patients in the UK' (2015), and 'Earlier diagnosis: the importance of cancer symptoms' (2020). Her work examines socioeconomic and ethnic disparities in help-seeking for cancer symptoms, patient experiences with interpreting services, and strategies to improve primary care contributions to timely diagnosis. As co-lead of the Cancer Care group, comprising around 25 staff and PhD students, she drives interdisciplinary efforts to optimise cancer outcomes, address inequities, and enhance patient experiences through mixed-methods research, data linkage, and policy-relevant insights.