Health for all: science, partnership, equity
King’s Global Health Institute (KGHI) is home to world-leading research, education, and practice that prioritise achieving health equity for all people, worldwide. Our approach is deeply transdisciplinary, bridging King’s multi-faculty strengths — from biomedicine, population health and social medicine, to business, policy, arts and humanities. Our research is grounded in pressing global realities including the rise of non-communicable diseases, persistent gaps in universal health care, and structural inequities in funding, governance and decision-making. Our response is to work reciprocally with research-oriented organisations in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs), emphasising knowledge justice and shared leadership, to tackle the health issues that affect people everywhere and build a fairer, healthier world.
Connecting people, expertise and insight
We’re connecting health researchers, research managers, educators, practitioners, and students across King’s College London and our national and international partners.
Advancing world-leading research
We’re conducting Discovery Science with Purpose, Harnessing Technologies to Meet People’s Needs, and testing treatments and systems to Reach More People with Effective Health Care — underpinned by a global health research portfolio of over £100 million (2024).
Teaching the next generation
We’re educating future global health practitioners, researchers, and leaders through undergraduate, master’s, and doctoral training, and by co-developing transnational approaches with partners in LMICs to widen access to quality health education.
Translating research into practice and policy
We’re translating research into practice and policy — through our research partners, and directly with ministries of health, clinical services, and non-governmental implementers — in more than 15 countries.
Building equitable partnerships
We’re strengthening reciprocal partnerships across the Global South and Global North, and amplifying the self-reliance of LMIC research institutions following recent funding shocks.
Our History
Founded in 2017 by Professor Martin Prince, an epidemiologist whose research focused on age-related conditions in low- and middle-income countries, KGHI has grown into one of the UK’s leading interdisciplinary health institutes.
Our Impact, in Numbers
700 Masters graduates, 2021–26
£100m research portfolio (2024)
2000/year publications with LMIC partners
15+ mature research partnerships in LMIC countries
6 REF 2021 Impact Case Studies with LMIC partners
Responding to the Changing Global Context
In the face of recent global health funding cuts, our strategy focuses on amplifying the impact of research-oriented organisations in the Global South and nurturing and retaining early-career research talent.
Work With Us
We welcome collaboration with:
- Donors and philanthropic partners seeking to invest in equitable, high-impact global health
- Students looking for rigorous, values-driven global health education
- Research partners across the Global South and Global North who share our commitment to reciprocal partnerships.
Together, we can build a more just, inclusive, and impactful future for global health.