UCL GBSH launches the UCL Centre for Global Health Systems and Policy

UCL Global Business School for Health is launching the UCL Centre for Global Health Systems and Policy - focused on strengthening learning health systems to deliver innovative, effective and equitable responses to complex global challenges.

Health systems worldwide are being transformed by emerging challenges, including climate and epidemiological instability, digitalisation and AI, urbanisation, expanding private markets, and the spread of misinformation. At the same time, long-standing “wicked” problems remain unresolved.

At this juncture, health systems face a growing imperative to learn and innovate to respond to these overlapping challenges, address inequities, and strengthen their core functions.

Led by Professor Kabir Sheikh and Professor Neha Batura, the Centre works across research, education and capacity building, partnering with research institutions and international organisations globally.

Our approach is grounded in three principles:

• Whole-system lens: extending beyond service delivery to governance, financing, workforce, information, technology, markets and citizens
• Transdisciplinary collaboration: bringing together social sciences and public health to address complex system-level challenges
• Equitable partnerships: working with institutions in low- and middle-income countries to support local leadership and research capacity

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