UCL GRAND CHALLENGE OF GLOBAL HEALTH (GCGH)

Research – in numerous interdisciplinary groups as well as in departments 10 seven academic faculties

Graduate Research – including the UCL MSc in Global Health & Development and the UCL Grand Challenges Studentships in Global Health

In addition to life and medical sciences, hundreds of undergraduate and graduate (research and taught) programmes impact on global health. They include:

• biochemical engineering with bioprocess management (UCL Biochemical Engineering)
• earthquake engineering with disaster management (UCL Civil, Environmental & Geomatic Engineering)
• development and transition economics (UCL Economics)
• environmental-systems engineering (UCL Civil, Environmental & Geomatic Engineering)
• environmental law (UCL Laws)
• gender studies (UCL Centre for Intercultural Studies)
• geographies of globalisation (UCL Geography)
• hydrogeology and groundwater resources (UCL Earth Sciences)
• modern history (UCL History)
• housing futures and urban economic development (UCL Bartlett School)
• human rights and international relations (UCL Political Science)
• theories of identity (UCL French)
• digital health information and electronic-records management (UCL School of Library, Archive & Information Studies)
• political philosophy (UCL Philosophy)
• facilities and environment management (UCL Bartlett School)
• medical anthropology (UCL Anthropology)
• environmental and resource economics (UCL Economics)
• science communication and policy (UCL Science & Technology Studies)
• international welfare and social policy (UCL Laws).

UCL Enterprise – including:

• UCL Advances, which stimulates the culture of entrepreneurship and business interaction and brings business and UCL together
• UCL Business, which maximises the commercial value of UCL’s intellectual property assets and carries out commercial transactions
• UCL Consultants, who help provide access to the wealth of expertise at UCL and manage bespoke consultancy contracts

Events – including public lectures, symposia and workshops, and exhibitions and events at our eight museums and collections

Global citizenship – the ways in which we seek to prepare our students to respond to the intellectual, social and personal challenges that they will encounter throughout their lives and careers

The UCL Public Engagement Unit – encouraging two-way communication between staff and external groups.