The UCL Institute for Global Health (IGH) is an academic department of the Faculty of Population Health Sciences of

University College London (UCL) , mottoeng = Let all come who by merit deserve the most reward , established = , type = Public research university , endowment = £143 million (2020) , budget = � ...

and is located in

London London is the capital and List of urban areas in the United Kingdom, largest city of England and the United Kingdom, with a population of just under 9 million. It stands on the River Thames in south-east England at the head of a estuary dow ...

, United Kingdom. It was founded in 1964 by David Morley as the Tropical Child Health Unit. Originally a unit within the UCL Institute of Child Health, IGH became independent in August 2013 with Professor

Anthony Costello Anthony Costello (born 20 February 1953) is a British paediatrician. Until 2015 Costello was Professor of International Child Health and Director of the Institute for Global Health at the University College London. Costello is most notable fo ...

as director. In 2016, Professor Ibrahim Abubakar became the new director of the UCL Institute for Global Health, and in 2017 the UCL Research Department of Infection and Population Health merged with IGH to form the current department. In July 2022, Professor Shabbar Jaffar will take the role of new director of the IGH. The Institute for Global Health offers various teaching programme options, with 176 students registered on IGH PGT programmes in the 2018–19 academic year, as well as short course and tropEd students. Roughly 50 research degree students are based at the institute. Global health research is conducted by Institute staff in more than 50 countries worldwide, in collaboration with UK and overseas partners. The institute is situated across three sites in London, with some staff based or frequently overseas. The institute has over 150 staff, including 19 professors, of which 13 are female. The institute has held the Athena Swan Silver Award since 2017.

IGH Centres

In 2017 the institute established ten centres:

References

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