From understanding mental health and developing improved policy on care provision, to unpicking racism in health and assessing global health failures around the world – our research is working to make the world a better place.
GHSM researchers have an extremely strong track record in undertaking policy-relevant and socially engaged research to identify how policy makers and societies can improve health and well-being – particularly the well-being of disadvantaged populations globally.
Working with a diverse range of partners - including governments, international organisations, lay communities, and civil society groups - we undertake research addressing vital questions in global health and social medicines, seeking to embed ethical, locally relevant and culturally sensitive approaches to improve clinical practice and patient care; strengthen the development, governance, use of, and access to critical reproductive and health technologies; and influence wider public policy on the social determinants of health.
What it means to research global health and social medicine
Dr Annie Irvine shares her journey from undergraduate studies to becoming a qualitative researcher. Her research uses qualitative methods to understand the experiences of people who have encountered unemployment, worklessness, and welfare benefits systems due to mental health – and how understanding these experiences can help improve the way the benefit system works. She also shares her experience of working within the Department of Global Health & Social Medicine and the Centre for Society & Mental Health. Find out more about "What is mental health as a human experience?"
Professor Bronwyn Parry shares her journey from experience the HIV/AIDS pandemic in Sydney, Australia, to working in India on assisted reproduction, to joining the Department of Global Health & Social Medicine at King's. She is currently researching assisted dying and supporting the translation of research into policy. Find out more about "How the AIDS pandemic shaped my career"