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Department of Global Health & Social Medicine

School of Global Affairs

Our research

Health and illness have crucial social and political dimensions – raising profound social, political and ethical challenges in all regions of the world. Our research engages with these issues through conceptually rigorous empirical research with important practical and policy implications.

We are ranked within the top 10 sociology departments in the UK, and 100 percent of our research impact is judged to be world-leading or internationally excellent.

King’s has historically been at the forefront of medical research and teaching – our departmental research culture builds on this excellence to extend health research in a social context. We do this by exploring the new issues raised by developments in biomedicine and beyond.

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Research and expertise

Research and expertise

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Research impact

Research impact

Demonstrating that health is more than a medical matter.

Research centres and groups

Research centres and groups

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Our people

Our people

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News and events from the Department of Global Health & Social Medicine

Dying woman with cancer in hospital bed

27 September 2023

Focus on women, power and gender to transform cancer care, says Lancet report

The new report, co-authored by a King’s academic, says that cancer in women is overlooked despite…

GHSM undergraduate students completed a paid consultancy with Lambeth council_Summer 2023

18 August 2023

King's students work with London council to evaluate health programmes

Global Health & Social Medicine BSc students applied their health research skills through a paid…

Mental Health Nursing21

16 August 2023

Global health students offer suggestions to Sutton Council on promoting healthy lifestyles

In July, five second-year Global Health & Social Medicine students completed an exclusive one-week…

4 Oct

sikh elders service leeds_centre for ageing better

Connect and Cope with Loneliness

04 October 2023

What does loneliness mean to you? Researchers from GHSM conducted workshops with people from…