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About Us
The UCL Institute for Global Health (IGH), led by Prof Anthony Costello and based within the Faculty of Population Health Sciences, is the thriving research and teaching community at the heart of UCL Grand Challenge of Global Health.
Drawing on the expertise of over 200 staff from across UCL’s departments, we take a unique cross-disciplinary approach to global health in both our research and teaching, responding to the fact that health problems – and their solutions – are influenced by the social environment as well as medical innovation.
We collect evidence in the real world, evaluate interventions with communities and put our research into practice so it can provide practical solutions for policymakers to implement on a large scale. Our staff bring a range of experience to help students grasp the realities of global health work, at community, national or international levels.
IGH increases the impact of UCL’s research, both on a local
and global scale. Students and academics from across the university,
policymakers and members of the public attend our lively annual series of
global-health symposia addressing controversial and topical subjects. IGH also
coordinates the annual UCL Lancet Lecture series.
The UCL Institute for Global Health implements the work of the UCL Grand Challenge of Global Health (GCGH) and also hosts the Global Alliance for Chronic Diseases (GACD) Secretariat.
History
In 1964 Professor David Morley was invited by the then Dean of the Institute of Child Health, Professor Otto Wolff, to establish the Tropical Child Health Unit. With Professor Zef Ebrahim and Dr Pam Zinkin, David established
diploma and masters' courses in mother and child health and disability
studies which
were to attract many future health leaders in developing countries.
In 1990 Professor Andrew Tomkins took over as Director of the newly named Department of International Child Health and continued in this role until October 2006 when the UCL Centre for International Child Health (CIHD), the UCL International Perinatal Care Unit and the UCL International Health & Medical Education Centre were united to become the UCL Centre for International Health and Development under the leadership of Professor Anthony Costello. Now as CIHD becomes a UCL Institute, we continue the innovative work begun by Professor David Morley in the Tropical Child Health Unit in the 1970s and 80s and Professor Andrew Tomkins thereafter.
