UCL Global Business School for Health

The UCL Global Business School for Health is the world's first business school dedicated to health. We unravel health challenges from a business perspective.

At UCL Global Business School for Health (GBSH), our programme of education and research inspires and develops, producing graduates who go on to make a difference in healthcare across the world. Our students and staff form a vibrant and diverse community where multidisciplinary innovation, disruptive thinking and creativity flourish act as the catalyst for positive change.

Established in 2021, the UCL Global Business School for Health (GBSH) was created in response to an undeniable global truth: health systems must evolve. The pandemic highlighted the profound impact of health on society, exposing critical system flaws and the need for better management, innovation, and leadership.

UCL GBSH’s one-of-a-kind offering of undergraduate, postgraduate and Executive Education courses address these issues head-on, providing management and business skills to students from across the world. From focusing on public health engagement to harnessing the power of technology and digitisation, we are preparing our students to lead health transformation globally.

Vision

To become the global leader of business research and education for health.

Mission

To empower an education, research, and professional community to accelerate health system innovations for the improvement of societal health outcomes globally.

Purpose

Our purpose is to provide excellent education to empower tomorrow’s healthcare management leaders, who will make a difference to healthcare systems globally.

Values

Visionary – Our community of changemakers embrace imaginative thinking, innovative techniques, and novel theories to lead changes that spearhead the dynamic health systems of tomorrow.

Impactful – Our actions are transformative, driving real changes for improvement in the global health ecosystem.

Ethical – We are open, honest, and environmentally aware in our activities.

Inclusive – We are collaborative, always striving to harness the potential of our differences by weaving equity, diversity, inclusion and belonging into everything we do.

Goals

1. Provide high-quality employer and sector-aligned degrees for graduates to enrich global healthcare outcomes.

2. Develop and assess students’ business and health function and knowledge, creativity, critical thinking ability, communication, leadership, and ethical values.

3. Facilitate the continuous commitment of staff to provide impactful research, consultancy, professional development, and service.

4. Build knowledge transfer partnerships taking a pioneering business and innovation perspective to address global health challenges and improve societal outcomes.

Our Director

Prof Nora Colton

Professor Nora Ann Colton is an academic leader, health economist, and expert in healthcare transformation. She is the Founding Director of the UCL Global Business School for Health - the world’s first business school dedicated to health - and Professor of Leadership and Management for Healthcare at University College London. Since 2021, she has led the School’s vision to transform healthcare through innovative education, interdisciplinary research, and strategic partnerships, launching a high-demand portfolio of degree programmes and a thriving executive education offering serving health systems worldwide. People | Faculty of Population Health Sciences