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The UCL Great Ormond Street Institute of Child Health (ICH) is an academic department of the Faculty of Population Health Sciences of
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(UCL) and is located in
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, United Kingdom. It was founded in 1946 and together with its clinical partner
Great Ormond Street Hospital Great Ormond Street Hospital (informally GOSH or Great Ormond Street, formerly the Hospital for Sick Children) is a children's hospital located in the Bloomsbury area of the London Borough of Camden, and a part of Great Ormond Street Hospital ...
(GOSH), forms the largest concentration of children's health research in Europe. In 1996 the Institute merged with University College London. Current research focusses on broad biomedical topics within child health, ranging from developmental biology, to genetics, to
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and
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.


History

The Institute of Child Health was founded in 1946 by professor
Alan Moncrieff Sir Alan Aird Moncrieff, (9 October 1901 – 24 July 1971) was a British paediatrician and professor emeritus at University of London. He was most notable for developing the first premature-baby unit in 1947. It was Moncrief who recognised and d ...
with the funding of a chair in child health by the
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. It acted as a postgraduate school of preventive and therapeutic paediatrics of
Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children Great Ormond Street Hospital (informally GOSH or Great Ormond Street, formerly the Hospital for Sick Children) is a children's hospital located in the Bloomsbury area of the London Borough of Camden, and a part of Great Ormond Street Hospital ...
and the University of London. Moncrieff served as director until 1964.


Research

ICH sets out its mission to improve the health and wellbeing of children, and the adults they will become, through world-class research, education and public engagement. To further this agenda, ICH joined the Faculty of Biomedical Sciences at
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in 2006. The research is internationally recognised, with the ICH gaining Grade 5*A in the
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ratings. The institute also won the Queen's Anniversary Prize for Higher Education in 2000. Through the enabling of various funding bodies incl research councils, charities as well as industry, the Institute annually trains doctoral students, medical students and other postgraduates. There are five academic programmes in the Institute: Developmental Biology and Cancer, Developmental Neuroscience, Genetics and Genomic Medicine, Infection, Immunity, Inflammation, and Population Policy and Practice.


Library

The Library provides information support and information skills training for staff and students at the Great Ormond Street Institute of Child Health and the staff of Great Ormond Street Hospital. It is located on the 2nd floor of the UCL Great Ormond Street Institute of Child Health main building. The Library was refurbished and reopened in August 2017. Its facilities include: * 105 study spaces with computers * Quiet study area * Study pod * Separate room with 8 computers and soft furnishings. The Library holds a range of resources (databases, e-resources and books) as well as offering training sessions and online tutorials.


Historical collections

The Friends of the Children of Great Ormond Street Library holds a substantial collection of historical books and reprints of papers published by staff at Great Ormond Street Hospital and the Institute of Child Health. The historical collections also include around 2500 volumes on paediatrics and the history of paediatrics, some dating from as early as 1819.


Library opening hours

The Library is staffed from Monday to Friday, between 9:00am and 6:00pm.


Strategic Partners

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Great Ormond Street Hospital Great Ormond Street Hospital (informally GOSH or Great Ormond Street, formerly the Hospital for Sick Children) is a children's hospital located in the Bloomsbury area of the London Borough of Camden, and a part of Great Ormond Street Hospital ...
for Children NHS Foundation Trust *GOSH-UCL Biomedical Research Centre (BRC) *
Great Ormond Street Hospital Great Ormond Street Hospital (informally GOSH or Great Ormond Street, formerly the Hospital for Sick Children) is a children's hospital located in the Bloomsbury area of the London Borough of Camden, and a part of Great Ormond Street Hospital ...
Children's Charity *Centre for Research into Rare Diseases in Children (CRRDC) * UCL Partners (UCLP)


Key facts

*In the Research Excellence Framework (REF) 2014, ICH was part of a UCL return to the Clinical Medicine sub-panel of Main Panel A. In this sub-panel, 80% of UCL research was assessed as either world-leading (43%) or internationally excellent (37%). In the assessment of research power, UCL's performance was top in the UK. *Research grant income is around £32m per annum *Bibliometric assessment of journal articles has placed ICH/GOSH in the top five children's academic medical centres in the world. It was joint third for citation impact, fourth for most highly cited papers and fifth on the number of publications. ''NB.'' *Thirteen Professors are Fellows of the Academy of Medical Sciences *Ten Professors are
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(NIHR) Senior Investigators *ICH leads the Child Health component of the UCL undergraduate medical degree for approximately 370 students each year, a vital component of training tomorrow’s doctors. *ICH has nearly 400 postgraduate students, half of whom are undertaking taught programmes (Masters, PG Diploma and PG Certificate) and half of whom are research students (MRes, PhD). ''NB''. ''Paper numbers, percentage of highly cited papers and 5-year average citation impact (Evidence, Thomson Reuters Business) comparing papers published between 1988 and 2012 from GOSH/ICH with its international comparators''.


Notable faculty

Notable faculty of the institute, past and present, include: *Professor Sir
Al Aynsley-Green Sir Albert Aynsley-Green (born 30 May 1943) is a paediatric endocrinologist and Professor Emeritus of Child Health at University College London. Aynsley-Green is most notable for advancing the idea of the rights of children. He was appointed to ...
, becomes Nuffield Professor of Child Health 1993 and Children's Commissioner (2005-2009). *Professor
Sir Cyril Chantler Sir Cyril Chantler (born 12 May 1939) is a British paediatric nephrologist. Chantler was notable for devising a method with Norman Veale of measuring glomerular function in children and later researched diet and growth failure in children wit ...
, received a knighthood for his services to medicine in 1996, a former Chairman of the Board of Great Ormond Street Hospital, and Chair of UCL Partners 2009–2014. *Professor Carol Dezateux CBE, former head of the Centre for Paediatric Epidemiology and Biostatistics at ICH, and now Director of the Life Study *Professor Philip Graham, former Dean of the institute, between 1985 and 1990 *Professor Christine Kinnon, Deputy Director (Education) at ICH and Vice-Dean for Education, Faculty of Population Health Sciences at UCL. *Professor
Catherine Law Catherine Law CBE is a British paediatrician and epidemiologist at the UCL Great Ormond Street Institute of Child Health. She received the James Spence Medal, the highest honour of the Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health, in 2020. Law co ...
CBE, Deputy Director (Strategy & Partnerships) at ICH. *Professor Roland Levinsky, former Dean and Director of the institute, between 1990 and 1999. *Professor June Lloyd, former Nuffield Professor of Child Health, between 1984- *Professor
Catherine Peckham Catherine S. Peckham ( King) FFPHM is a British paediatrician. Peckham was the first Professor of Paediatric Epidemiology in the UK, and established the Centre for Paediatric Epidemiology and Biostatistics at the UCL Institute of Child Health ...
CBE, who established the Centre for Paediatric Epidemiology and Biostatistics at the institute. *Professor
John Soothill John Farrar Soothill (20 August 1925 – 23 September 2004) was an English medical doctor. He began his career as a nephrologist and later became a paediatric immunologist at Great Ormond Street Hospital. Biography John Soothill was born in 1925 i ...
, the Hugh Greenwood Professor of Immunology between 1965 and 1985. *Professor
Rosalind Smyth Rosalind Louise Smyth CBE (born 28 September 1958) is an Irish-British paediatrician. She is Professor of Child Health at UCL the Director of the UCL Great Ormond Street Institute of Child Health from 2012 until 2022. She has been Vice Dean ...
, Director UCL Great Ormond Street Institute of Child Health. *Professor
Terence Stephenson Sir Terence John Stephenson, (born December 1957) is a Northern Irish consultant paediatric doctor and chair of the Health Research Authority (HRA). He is also the Nuffield Professor of Child Health at University College London (UCL). Stephens ...
, Nuffield Professor of Child Health and Chair of the Academy of Medical Royal Colleges. *Professor
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, Nuffield Professor of Child Health, former Dean of the institute, between 1982 and 1985.


See also

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Healthcare in London Healthcare in London, which consumes about a fifth of the NHS budget in England, is in many respects distinct from that in the rest of the United Kingdom, or England. History Early history The earliest state hospitals in the UK were set up in L ...


References

*Moncrieff, A. (1962) The Institute of Child Health, Great Ormond Street, London. Developmental Medicine & Child Neurology, 4: 92–93. {{DEFAULTSORT:Ucl Great Ormond Street Institute Of Child Health Medical research institutes in the United Kingdom
Institute of Child Health The UCL Great Ormond Street Institute of Child Health (ICH) is an academic department of the Faculty of Population Health Sciences of University College London (UCL) and is located in London, United Kingdom. It was founded in 1946 and together ...
Institute of Child Health The UCL Great Ormond Street Institute of Child Health (ICH) is an academic department of the Faculty of Population Health Sciences of University College London (UCL) and is located in London, United Kingdom. It was founded in 1946 and together ...