Advancing Health and Authentic Capacity Building with our Partners globally
The Global Health Institute at King’s College London (KGHI) is a vibrant, interconnected community of researchers, students, educators, administrators, and advocates from King’s and partner organisations across multiple countries. We are united through our belief that improving health for underserved groups is a path to a fairer and safer world.
Our mission is to “expand research that advances health equity, grow high-quality accessible education, and strengthen health systems, while addressing unfair access to resources and training, and advocating for justice in knowledge production
King’s College London is an extraordinary place to study and conduct research in global health, because of our unique combination of scientific strengths including biomedical, psychological, nursing, social sciences, and policy, and due to our strong long-standing relationships with colleagues around the world.
At King’s we have been working for years to build more equitable and reciprocal partnerships with collaborators in the global south. This means we endeavour to work together with partners to define the relevant research and education questions, and seek to fairly share leadership, resources, and project outputs. In this time of disruption to global health aid, it is even more urgent that we focus on authentic capacity building, which fosters flourishing and resilience of researchers in the global south.
The KGHI in 2025 is a growing interdisciplinary hub. Professor Melanie Abas began as Director at the end of 2023. She is guided and supported by a 12-person Senior Strategy Council drawn from across King’s faculties and directorates, a 70-person Institute Advisory Group made up from colleagues at all career levels from King’s and partners, and a small executive team. Melanie is known for research enabling better mental health through community interventions in Zimabbwe and some other African countries, for research fuelling health improvements for survivors of human trafficking in the UK, and for working since 2010 on African-led capacity building programs.
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