The future of health systems is inevitably connected to these factors and how governments and partners value, protect and empower the workforce and align their internal thinking on the Human-AI economy of health and care will have a profound impact on workers’ health and population health.
Professor Jim Campbell, Professor of Practice in Health Workforce at King’s College London.
03 March 2026
Professor Jim Campbell joins King's to advance workforce science and the integration of AI in health and care
We are pleased to announce the appointment of Professor Jim Campbell as Professor of Practice in Health Workforce at King’s College London, commencing 1 April 2026.
Based within the School of Life Course & Population Sciences, he will link with expertise across King’s Population Health Institute (KPHI), King’s Health Partners, King’s Faculties, and international collaborators to shape the future of health systems.
Professor Campbell is a globally recognised leader in health workforce and health policy and moves to King’s after 12 years at the World Health Organization (WHO). In this time, he was Director of Health Workforce, Executive Director of the Global Health Workforce Alliance and oversaw the conceptual development of the WHO Academy.
His public health career is grounded in a decade of work in conflict, post-conflict and humanitarian emergencies in Africa, Asia and Europe. These experiences formed his deeper understanding of population health, systems, values and equity and evolved into his people-centred, impact-driven leadership in the public, private and international sectors.
In subsequent roles and partnerships with national governments, regional economic bodies and global health actors – including the UK’s FCDO (formerly DFID), Africa CDC, United Nations Population Fund, the World Bank, and the World Health Professions Alliance – he has shaped research, landmark publications and international strategies on health workforce education, employment, migration, rights and governance with specific attention to gender.
At King’s, his work will focus on defining and advancing a new era of workforce science and the Human–AI economy of health and care. He will examine how all occupations in the health and care workforce – encompassing all personnel engaged to deliver clinical services, essential public health functions, care work and support for self-care – can be strategically planned, educated, and empowered to meet evolving population needs.
A central strand of his work will explore how AI and digital tools can strengthen the human economy of health and care, ensuring that investments in AI and innovation enhance human ingenuity, professional capability and team practice, rather than displace the expertise and judgement of health professionals.
Professor Campbell said: “I’m delighted to join King’s at a generational turning point for population health when systems are adapting to demographic change, climate, financial pressures, labour market constraints, rapid technological change and evolving dynamics in multilateralism and global governance."
Professor Campbell will lead and expand the KPHI Vanguard Health series at King’s, a platform bringing together people and ideas at the forefront of equitable change in population and global health.
Professor Josip Car, Head of the School of Life Course & Population Sciences, said: "We are delighted to welcome Professor Jim Campbell as Professor of Practice in Health Workforce. His renowned leadership in shaping WHO’s normative guidance and negotiating policy consensus at the highest levels of the World Health Assembly and the United Nations General Assembly brings invaluable insight into how evidence is translated into policy, practice and real-world delivery."
As we accelerate our work in AI and preventive medicine, his international experience will strengthen our School’s leadership in health systems and workforce science, advance new analysis on the human–AI economy of health and care, and expand our postgraduate, doctoral and executive education programmes for a new generation of leaders.
Professor Josip Car, Head of the School of Life Course & Population Sciences.
Professor Campbell will also contribute to postgraduate and doctoral studies and support the expansion of education programmes preparing a new generation of public and private sector leaders to navigate workforce science, governance and digital change. He welcomes expressions of interest from partners, philanthropy and prospective PhD students.
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