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 GBSH research themes
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
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
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
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