Welcome to the King's Global Health Institute
At the King’s Global Health Institute, we believe that improving health worldwide takes more than medical breakthroughs alone. Through working closely with partners in the UK and across the world, we make sure that ways to prevent and treat ill-health fit with people’s understanding and cultures, and with the systems and services available in their communities. We are known for bridging biomedical excellence and health justice. King’s large, multi-faculty university brings together clinical science, population health, social medicine, business, policy, and the arts and humanities to address global health challenges in their full biological, social, cultural, and ethical complexity.
Our research, education, and practice are rooted in real-world contexts and long-term, trusted relationships with partner institutions. This means our work connects to everyday practice, and new findings can quickly improve care, strengthen health systems, and inform policy. We endeavour to work in solidarity with partners to set research priorities, train future leaders, and share knowledge and skills so everyone benefits from innovation.
Our three core activities, crossing research, education, and practice, are:
Reaching More People with Effective Health Care.Examples are helping health staff in more than 100 countries support patients facing life-limiting illness; bringing safer pregnancy care to mothers in Sub-Saharan Africa; working with governments to build better emergency surgery services in fragile countries, and doing research to enable grandmothers to learn how to deliver simple talking therapies on wooden park benches, to reach more than a million people with depression
Discovery Science with Purpose. Ranging from social science to the laboratory, our researchers are addressing questions from how to pick up life threatening risks in pregnancy, to how to prevent mental health difficulties in people living in poverty.
Harnessing Technologies to Meet People’s Needs. Examples include using AI to guide emergency medical care during climate disasters, designing low-cost technology to help care for wounds, and bringing brain scans and blood pressure monitoring to rural areas to help save lives.
These activities are underpinned by our four core approaches, which are to:
* Place our partners front and centre of research and practice
* Amplify the impact of research-oriented organisations in the Global South
* Nurture the next generation of global health practitioners and researchers, and
* Build education for future students which reaches them in their home country
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