Susan Pick

Susan Pick is a Mexican social psychologist and the founder and board president of the Mexican Institute for Family and Population Research (IMIFAP) (commonly known as "Yo quiero Yo puedo"), a Mexican organization that has promoted and facilitated wellbeing for over 21 million people in Mexico and 17 other countries through over 60 education, health and poverty reduction programs. She has her Ph.D. in social psychology from the University of London.

For her dissertation, she studied rural Mexico and the way in which social and cultural norms effected decision making and subsequent actions of women there. This research inspired the mission of Yo quiero Yo puedo and led to further investigations into the social barriers that prevent human change and development. Her work is based on three of her teachers and mentors: Robert S. Hartman (theory of value), Martin Fishbein (behavior change) and Nobel laureate Amartya Sen (human capabilities) with whom she studied.

Among the largest funders of the research and programs developed, implemented and evaluated by Pick's group are: Buffet Foundation, European Union, Inter-American Development Bank, GlaxoSmithKline, MacArthur Foundation, National Institutes of Health, Packard Foundation, Population Council, Summit Foundation, Tinker Foundation, United Nations, Bernard van Leer Foundation, World Bank and World Health Organization.