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UCL GBSH is a catalyst and global leader of business research for health. Research is organised across three themes: Management and Healthcare Innovation, Health Systems and Policy, and Health Economics, Finance, and Operations.
Our evolving UCL GBSH research themes
- Management and Healthcare Innovation (MHI)
MHI focuses on enhancing healthcare leadership, organisational performance, and overall population health and wellbeing through developing and testing theories on innovation, management, and organisations. MHI researchers bring these different theories to pressing issues in healthcare, including changing roles of healthcare professionals and organizations; new technologies and the need to refashion existing organizational structures, patterns of interaction, and institutional roles around these technologies; the rise of artificial intelligence and the digital transformation of healthcare; greater involvement of patients, families, and communities, in optimising healthcare; new organisational models for private-public collaboration for health, and dynamics governing R&D supporting healthcare innovation.
Theme Lead: Simcha Jong, Professor of Management and Healthcare Innovation
- Health Systems and Policy (HSP)
HSP focuses on contextually relevant interdisciplinary research that generates insights and solutions for critical health systems and policy problems globally. Key questions of interest include (but are not limited to):
- How can Primary Health Care be strengthened in changing contexts of rapid urbanisation, commercialisation, and ecological change?
- How can the governance of mixed public-private health systems be improved to create public good and advance health equity?
- How can a heterogeneous health workforce be effectively marshalled for the future needs of populations?
- What opportunities and risks do the digital and information revolutions pose for health systems?
- How can health systems be strengthened by institutionalising learning - through information, deliberation, and action?
The HSP research agenda is linked to action and impact through co-production and collaborative learning with health system stakeholders, policymakers, and citizens.
Theme lead: Kabir Sheikh, Professor of Global Health Systems and Policy
- Health Economics, Finance, and Operations
Leveraging the potency of economic analysis is indispensable in shaping effective health policy and practice. The application of economic evaluation and value-based healthcare approaches is key to achieving operational efficiencies in healthcare delivery. Efforts to enhance health and equity are advanced through behavioural and structural interventions. Additionally, exploring diverse models of healthcare financing and analysing the drivers of health spending contribute to informed decision-making, ensuring that resources are allocated in a way to achieve optimal health outcomes and societal well-being.
Theme lead: Sotiris Vandoros, Professor of Health Economics
Our Team
- Faculty
Name Role Hend Abdelhakim Assistant Professor in Marketing and Commercialisation for Healthcare Rodolfo Catena Assistant Professor in Operations and Supply Chain Management Jeongwon Choi Research Fellow Simon Combes Assistant Professor in Health Economics Paul Expert Assistant Professor in Health Informatics Susanne Gaube Assistant Professor in Human Factors for Healthcare Luka Gebel Assistant Professor in Strategy & Entrepreneurship Kate Honeyford Assistant Professor in Health Informatics Zhenyi Huang Assistant Professor in Finance and Accounting Radhika Jain Assistant Professor in Health Economics Simcha Jong Professor of Management and Healthcare Innovation and Director for Doctorate of Business Administration Health Rama Kanungo Associate Professor in Finance and Accounting Pratap Kumar Associate Professor in Digital Health Policy Waty Lilaonitkul Assistant Professor in Digital Health Technologies Marzena Nieroda Assistant Professor in Marketing and Commercialisation in Healthcare Rakesh Parashar Assistant Professor in Health Systems and Policy Anna-Lena Ruland Research Fellow Meike Schleiff Associate Professor in Health Systems & Policy Kabir Sheikh Professor of Global Health Systems and Policy Sonila Tomini Assistant Professor in Health Economics Sotiris Vandoros Professor of Health Economics and Director of Executive MBA Health Shehla Zaidi Associate Professor and Programme Lead for Global Healthcare Management Paola Zappa Assistant Professor in Organisational Behaviour and Human Resource Management Ruijia Zhan Assistant Professor in Finance and Accounting Yuxi Zhang Assistant Professor in Health Policy and Systems - Our Collaborators
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UCL's strategic partnerships
UCL cannot deliver global change alone therefore we are more collaborative than any other major global health university. Our strategic partnerships bring together complementary strengths and deepen the impact of our cross disciplinary education and research. UCL has partnerships with industry, healthcare providers, non-governmental organisations (NGOs) and other centres of academic excellence across the world. We are a founding partner in one of the first academic health science partnerships, UCL Partners, working alongside 23 NHS hospital trusts, 20 clinical commissioning groups and nine other universities, to co-create healthcare solutions with access to a highly diverse patient population of over six million people registered at the partner hospitals.
Our research and partnership working also enriches global scholarship and delivers opportunities for a transformative education with a reputation for innovation, reach and legacy. We are committed to inclusivity and participation to reflect our global ambitions. The London School of Medicine for Women was established in 1874 and was the first medical school in Britain to train women as doctors, merging with UCL in 1998 to form a new school at UCL. Today, the Athena Swan accreditation for gender equality has been achieved across our broad scientific community at UCL.
