World #9
QS World University Rankings 2026World #3 for public health
ShanghaiRanking's 2024 Global Ranking of Academic SubjectsEstablished in 2021, the UCL Global Business School for Health (GBSH) was created in response to an undeniable global truth: health systems must evolve. The pandemic highlighted the profound impact of health on society, exposing critical system flaws and the need for better management, innovation, and leadership.
UCL GBSH’s one-of-a-kind offering of undergraduate, postgraduate and Executive Education courses address these issues head-on, providing management and business skills to students from across the world. From focusing on public health engagement to harnessing the power of technology and digitisation, we are preparing our students to lead health transformation globally.
Vision
To become the global leader of business research and education for health.
Mission
To empower an education, research, and professional community to accelerate health system innovations for the improvement of societal health outcomes globally.
Meet our Director
Nora Colton
Founding Director of the UCL Global Business School for Health
Professor Nora Colton is the Founding Director of the UCL Global Business School of Health. She is a health and development economist with extensive experience in change management and strategy. Previous to this role she was the UCL Pro-Vice-Provost (Postgraduate Education) and Joint Director of Education at the UCL Institute of Ophthalmology and Moorfields Eye Hospital.
Purpose
Our purpose is to provide excellent education to empower tomorrow’s healthcare management leaders, who will make a difference to healthcare systems globally.
Values
Visionary – Our community of changemakers embrace imaginative thinking, innovative techniques, and novel theories to lead changes that spearhead the dynamic health systems of tomorrow.
Impactful – Our actions are transformative, driving real changes for improvement in the global health ecosystem.
Ethical – We are open, honest, and environmentally aware in our activities.
Inclusive – We are collaborative, always striving to harness the potential of our differences by weaving equity, diversity, inclusion and belonging into everything we do.
Goals
- Provide high-quality employer and sector-aligned degrees for graduates to enrich global healthcare outcomes.
- Develop and assess students’ business and health function and knowledge, creativity, critical thinking ability, communication, leadership, and ethical values.
- Facilitate the continuous commitment of staff to provide impactful research, consultancy, professional development, and service.
- Build knowledge transfer partnerships taking a pioneering business and innovation perspective to address global health challenges and improve societal outcomes.
Find us
The Global Business School for Health department office is based at UCL East, situated on the Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park.