We cultivate global healthcare engineering partnerships in order to deliver world-class, innovative research. Our group members span a diverse range of expertise, from pure through to applied research, and innovation and enterprise.
We facilitate knowledge exchange through events and workshops, and maintain relationships with NGOs, industry partners, and policy-makers to ensure UCL healthcare engineering research is delivering global impact.
Our members
| Name | Department | Job title |
|---|---|---|
| Ifat Yasin (Chair) | UCL Computer Science | Associate Professor |
| Patty Kostkova | UCL Insitute for Risk and Disaster Reduction (IRDR) | Director of IRDR Centre for Digital Public Health in Emergencies |
| Giada Brianza | UCL Institute of Healthcare Engineering | Research and Development Manager |
| Alice Hardy | UCL Institute of Healthcare Engineering | Communications and Impact Manager |
| Shervanthi Homer-Vanniasinkam | UCL Mechanical Engineering, Leeds General Infirmary | Professor of Engineering & Surgery, Consultant Vascular Surgeon |
| Amit Khandelwal | UCL Global Engagement Office | Senior Partnership Manager (South Asia |
Our activities
Joint webinar with Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore
In May 2021, the Global Delivery Group supported a joint webinar between the UCL Institute of Healthcare Engineering and the Indian Institute of Science (IISc).
Professor Shervanthi Homer-Vanniasinkam, (Professor of Surgery and Engineering in UCL Mechanical Engineering, consultant vascular surgeon at Leeds Infirmary, and delivery group member) provided the opening remarks, detailing her perspective as a clinician-academic.
Researchers from both institutions shared their work in this field of healthcare engineering, from nano-sensors to tissue regeneration.
Global Healthcare Engineering Symposium 2020
In November 2020, the Global Delivery Group organised a showcase of global healthcare engineering at UCL. The two-day, virtual event explored the importance of international partnerships, and practical ways of making these partnerships happen. UCL researchers provided case studies of succesful global collaboration, and we also heard from funders and UCL support teams that enable this to happen.
Growing partnerships with India 2019-20
Over the past couple of years, in collaboration with UCL Global Engagement Office, we have been growing our partnership with colleagues in India, in particular the All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) and the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) in Delhi.
Read more about the activities we've been undertaking in our 2019-20 report.
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At a glance
- We gather and organise information about global healthcare-related engineering and innovation at UCL
- We support the creation of new international connections and cultivate existing partnerships
- We work with stakeholders to identify unmet global health needs
- We scope global funding opportunities – from supporting new researchers with seed funding to develop their collaborations, through to large-scale funding
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