Improving global healthcare through evidence-based innovation

Prospectus 2 | Imperial College London

DESIGNING AND DISTRIBUTING HIGH IMPACT GLOBAL HEALTHCARE INNOVATIONS TO REDUCE HEALTH INEQUALITIES WORLDWIDE

CONTENTS

3 Overview 14 Our research centres 4 Our way of working 16 The Hamlyn Centre for Robotic Surgery 6 Our structure 18 Centre for Health Policy 8 Our governance 22 Health Innovation Exchange (HELIX) Centre 9 Our global profile for Design in Healthcare 10 Global reach 24 Centre for Digestive and Gut Health 12 World Innovation Summit for Health 26 Centre for African Research and Engagement 27 Centre for International Child Health 28 The Imperial College Wellcome Trust Centre for Global Health Research 29 Degree programmes 34 Institute affiliates

INSTITUTE LEADERSHIP

Professor the Lord Ara Darzi of Denham Professor Beate Kampmann MD PhD FRCPCH OM KBE PC FRS FMedSci HonFREng FRCS FIOM Professor of Paediatric Infection & Immunity Director: Institute of Global Health Innovation Centre Director: Centre of International Child Health Centre Director: Centre for Health Policy, Hamlyn Centre Professor Majid Ezzati FMedSci for Robotic Surgery, HELIX Centre for Design in Healthcare Professor of Global Environmental Health Professor Guang-Zhong Yang Centre Director: The Imperial College Wellcome Trust FREng FIEEE FIET FAIMBE FCGI Centre for Global Health Research Deputy Director: Institute of Global Health Innovation Professor Kathryn Maitland Centre Director: Hamlyn Centre for Robotic Surgery Professor of Tropical Paediatric Infectious Diseases Professor Jeremy Nicholson Centre Director: Centre for African Research and Engagement FRSC FRCPath FIBiol FBTS Professor Elias Mossialos Centre Director: Centre for Digestive and Gut Health Co-Director of the Centre for Health Policy Dr Paul Thompson FRSA and Head of the Health Economics Group Centre Director: HELIX Centre for Design in Healthcare Institute of Global Health Innovation | 3

OUR VISION IS TO SUPPORT THE IDENTIFICATION, DEVELOPMENT AND WIDESPREAD DIFFUSION OF HEALTHCARE INNOVATION, AND IN DOING SO TO SUSTAINABLY REDUCE INEQUALITIES IN GLOBAL HEALTHCARE FOR GENERATIONS TO COME.

OVERVIEW

Led by Professor Darzi since 2010, Looking ahead, the Institute aims the Institute of Global Health Innovation to continue to attract a strong cohort IGHI is focused on (IGHI) comprises a multidisciplinary of students and scholars across its the co-creation and team of over 160 clinicians, engineers, educational and academic programmes diffusion of healthcare scientists, psychologists, policy analysts, and to advance a broadening research innovation to tackle data specialists, healthcare managers, agenda, which will encompass new some of the most economists, industrial designers and and impactful interdisciplinary centres entrepreneurs all focused on the of excellence. pressing global co-creation and diffusion of healthcare challenges facing By leveraging its position at the innovation to tackle some of the most forefront of policy research, the Institute people today. pressing global challenges facing both receives and disseminates leading- people today. edge research and translational practice, Housed within the Faculty of Medicine, which enhances its reputation and the Institute is well placed to leverage contributes to its high-impact status. the College’s wealth of multidisciplinary talent to innovate across science, technology, design and policy. By doing so, the Institute aims to develop cutting- edge solutions to the challenges faced by healthcare systems and to elicit transformational improvement in the quality and equity of patient care and population health and wellbeing.

My great, great, great “grandfather Prince Albert would have been thrilled at this level of collaboration.”

HRH The Prince of Wales

HRH The Prince of Wales visiting The Hamlyn Centre for Robotic Surgery 4 | Imperial College London

OUR WAY OF WORKING

The Institute has evolved considerably together form a value-adding and since its conception in 2009 by Professor supportive framework for fostering research Peter Piot and its original focus on the expertise, translating cutting-edge research traditional disease silos of global health. and establishing a recognised brand, which Simon Stevens readily informs and influences the highest Chief Executive Today, the Institute prides itself on a levels of industrial, academic and public NHS England very different ethos and excels in the sector stakeholders. exploration and promotion of the entire innovation lifecycle within healthcare, Utilising these strengths, the Institute is from the identification of key global able to support innovation in healthcare health challenges to the generation along the entire innovation pathway of It is high time that of solutions and their subsequent translational research; from scientific we put more of translation into realisable and widely discovery, to first-evaluation in humans, “ to supporting the establishment of our energies into adopted best practice. The Institute’s dynamic structure supports the creation evidence-based best practice and finally, innovation. This is and evolution of research that is focused to the diffusion of best practice on a not just on the supply within distinct, but widely partnered population and international level. side of healthcare, centres of excellence. Through evidence-based policy formation but in potentially and the collective insight of a global Aligned with the College’s strategic aims, cost-saving demand- network of experts and peers, brought the Institute focuses on the delivery of together through the World Innovation side innovations.” high quality and internationally pertinent Summit for Health (WISH), the Institute is research organised around seven centres able to expand the impact of its research of excellence. These centres are tightly and better realise its founding vision. woven within the clinical setting and INNOVATION applied targeted first clinical early late accepted research development human use trials adoption adoption practice

Research and development across Promoting and spreading best practice the IGHI centres in the clinical setting through WISH and IGHI’s global network Institute of Global Health Innovation | 5

ALIGNED WITH THE COLLEGE’S STRATEGIC AIMS, THE INSTITUTE FOCUSES ON THE DELIVERY OF HIGH QUALITY AND INTERNATIONALLY PERTINENT RESEARCH ORGANISED AROUND SEVEN CENTRES OF EXCELLENCE.

INNOVATION

Professor Darzi and Prime Minister David Cameron 6 | Imperial College London

OUR STRUCTURE

The Institute’s seven centres work in an • Imperial Cancer Research UK (CRUK) advisory and supportive role with a number of • Imperial NIHR Biomedical Research Centre respected academic and clinical groups including: • The national network of Academic Health Science Centres Institute of Global Health Innovation | 7

IGHI CONSISTS OF SEVEN CENTRES OF EXCELLENCE, UNDER THE GOVERNANCE OF AN INTERNATIONAL ADVISORY BOARD CONSISTING OF SOME OF THE WORLD’S FOREMOST HEALTHCARE SPECIALISTS.

New purpose-built facility for IGHI Imperial Cancer Imperial NIHR National Academic Health NIHR Centre for Currently spread across Research UK Centre Biomedical Phenome Centre Science Networks Patient Safety Research Centre and Translational several sites and growing year Research on year, the seven centres of excellence and the support framework that currently constitute IGHI will be soon Hamlyn Centre Centre for Health Innovation be brought together under for Robotic Surgery Health Policy Exchange (HELIX) Centre one roof. IGHI This new purpose-built facility will ensure researchers, Centre for Centre for African Centre for The Imperial College clinicians and academics Digestive and Research and International Wellcome Trust Centre for have the necessary resources Gut Health Engagement Child Health Global Health Research to face the major health challenges of the 21st century. As well as new centres for child health, African Faculty of Faculty of Faculty of Business healthcare and medical Medicine Engineering Natural Sciences School economics, the new Institute will provide state-of-the-art facilities that will allow for further expansion, flexible research and improved teaching space. The establishment of this new building dedicated to IGHI will focus and reinforce its position as an independent, authoritative arbiter in healthcare policy and innovation. This in turn will ensure IGHI remains at the forefront in bridging and fostering effective • Imperial Cancer Research UK (CRUK) relationships between • Imperial NIHR Biomedical Research Centre governments, industry • The national network of Academic Health Science Centres and healthcare systems worldwide. 8 | Imperial College London

OUR GOVERNANCE

IGHI International Advisory Board members • Dr Richard Horton (Chair), Editor in Chief, The Lancet • Dr Devi Shetty, Chairman of Narayana Hrudayalaya, Bangalore, India • Sir Andrew Witty, Chief Executive Officer, GSK • John Dineen, Former CEO, GE Healthcare • Dr Mark McClellan, Senior Fellow and Director of the Health Care Innovation and Value Initiative at the Brookings Institution, USA. Director of the Robert J Margolis Center for Health Policy and the Margolis Professor of Business, Medicine and Health Policy at An International Advisory Board has been established to support the wider Duke University, USA network and outreach of the Institute and to provide an on-going mechanism • Dr Hanan Al-Kuwari, Managing for evaluative assessment and strategic guidance. Director of Hamad Medical Corporation, Qatar The Institute draws on the expertise of an esteemed network of high profile clinicians, researchers and honorary academics from across industry and health • Dr Philip Campbell, Editor-in-Chief, policy. This has created an outstanding international forum of specialists who Nature take a proactive role in furthering the Institute’s goals and ambitions. • Professor Chen Zhu, Professor of Medicine, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China and former Minister for Health, China • Professor Gavin Screaton, Dean of the Faculty of Medicine, Imperial College London Institute of Global Health Innovation | 9

THE INSTITUTE’S WEBSITE AND SOCIAL CHANNELS PROVIDE A PLATFORM FOR GLOBAL HEALTH COLLEAGUES AT IMPERIAL COLLEGE TO RAISE AWARENESS OF THEIR RESEARCH ACTIVITY AND COMMUNICATE KEY MESSAGES TO A BROAD AUDIENCE.

OUR GLOBAL PROFILE

The Institute has developed an esteemed national and international profile and diffuses its broad portfolio of research interests through policy events and outreach initiatives that bolster a strong network both internally, within Imperial College, and far afield. The Institute’s Policy Seminar Series and Annual Lecture provide an opportunity for Imperial academics to engage with leaders in the field of global health. Previous guests include Dr Julio Frenk, President of the University of Miami and former Secretary of Health of Mexico; Madam Zuma, First Lady of South Africa; Stephen O’Brien MP, former Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for International Development; Dr Noubar Afeyan, inventor, entrepreneur and founder and Managing Partner of Flagship Ventures; and Dr Edna Adan Ismail, nurse, midwife, UN diplomat, French Legion of Honour recipient and former foreign minister of Somaliland. The Institute has experienced a growing media profile each year since 2010 as evidenced by increasing social and traditional media references, including tweets, followers and measured press activity in over 30 countries worldwide. The Institute’s website and social media channels provide a platform for global health colleagues at Imperial College to raise awareness of their research activity and communicate key messages to a broad and receptive audience. 10 | Imperial College London Institute of Global Health Innovation | 11

GLOBAL REACH

Working with the very best medical institutions and healthcare policy IGHI Student Challenges Competition All-Party Parliamentary Group World Economic Forum Annual Biosensor Network (BSN) Conference makers, IGHI has close links with IGHI runs an annual challenge and On Global Health IGHI hosted an IdeasLab Session at WEF Established by the Hamlyn Centre in 2003, a powerful global network of experts prize for student initiatives that show As a member of this group, IGHI plays on the future of supportive technologies for the annual BSN conference has evolved into and peers. Foremost amongst these the potential for positively transforming a leading role in advancing the global an ageing population. Four centre leaders the major technical conference for wearable groups is WISH, the World Innovation global health. Successful groups from health policy agenda in the UK. from the Institute presented and discussed and implantable body sensor networks, across the UK are given financial and cutting-edge research that impacts the way internationally. 2014’s conference was held Summit for Health. expert support to develop their ideas healthcare is delivered and how quality of life in ETH Zurich. The Hamlyn Centre remains Under the auspices of WISH, a network further. can be supported. actively involved with each event as advisers, programme committees members and of the world’s most influential health HELIX and the London Design nominating expert Chairs, etc. WISH 2015 policy makers come together to Festival 2015 The Global Health Policy Summit, which took place analyse, debate and form policy on The HELIX Centre was opened to in 2012, in conjunction with Qatar Foundation, was the major global health issues. the general public over four days in first large health policy event hosted by the Institute and September as part of the London Daw Aung a precursor to the World Innovation Summit for Health. IGHI has taken a leading role in Design Festival. As a result of such a Sang Suu Kyi WISH is now firmly established as the international forum reforming and supporting national and positive response, the studio will be Chairperson, for medical innovation and healthcare policy. In 2015 international health initiatives across open to the general public on the last Expert visits and advising National League delegates from over 93 countries attended, including Friday of each month to showcase the Representatives from IGHI participated the globe. These include partnerships for Democracy 23 health ministers and a total of 50 countries represented work of the Centre and exchange ideas. in the UK Trade & Investment and in Burma, Africa, South America and by a ministerial delegation. Healthcare UK’s ‘Healthcare is GREAT’ the Far East. IGHI, in collaboration showcase in Beijing to promote its with WISH, has also established the educational programmes and research Leading Health Systems Network Rangoon General Hospital centres, and showcased a number of (LHSN), a group of healthcare is a symbol of healthcare additional health programmes from leaders and organisations dedicated “ International talks Imperial. in Burma, and [with Lord to improving healthcare through IGHI staff are frequently invited to give speeches international collaboration. Darzi] we are trying to and keynote addresses Reinvigoration of Rangoon General Hospital, Burma reinvigorate it and create around the world. For IGHI academics and clinicians work In November 2014, Lord Darzi presented a flagship for Burmese example, Professor Guang- recommendations for improving Rangoon General closely with leading institutions, Zhong Yang was a keynote health. It is a modest Hospital to the cross party Committee in the including the World Bank, The World speaker at 18th International Burmese Parliament (Hluttaw) in Naypyidaw. Economic Forum (WEF) and other project on the global Conference on Medical international bodies and major stage, but a great project Image Computing Assisted charities, to drive improvements in in the heart of my nation.” Interventions in Munich 2015. global healthcare through evidence- TATA based medicine. IGHI is developing a Key stakeholders from Brazil visit partnership with Tata Steel, VIP delegations IGHI to see the best of British The Hamlyn Winter School, London, 2015 an industrial company in IGHI has supported the establishment expertise in health Surgical imaging and vision is a growing area of India that is interested to of strategic links and international IGHI Research Fellows introduced the research and an integral part of robotic surgery. deploy HELIX innovations networks. These include visits from Brazilian delegation to the research The Winter School focuses on both technical and in their company-run UK Royals, politicians and ministers; carried out by the Centre for Health clinical aspects of surgical imaging with hands-on hospitals. Separately, Tata industry leaders; and CEOs and ministers Policy, including patient safety, the demonstrations and workshops. is interested to incorporate from Brazil, Algeria, Hungary, USA, use of big data in health research, elements of HELIX’s Kuwait, Iraq and China, amongst and how best practises in the NHS industrial design into their many others. can be replicated in Brazil. product development. 12 | Imperial College London

WORLD INNOVATION SUMMIT FOR HEALTH (WISH)

WISH is about action. WISH aims to provide the “The Summit looks at ideas “ideal environment for which are evidence-based, intellectual interchanges scalable, and sustainable of ideas and to benefit from – often ideas which have our shared experiences.’’ already been implemented HH Sheikha Moza bint Nasser somewhere in the world – and works out how to implement them far more widely. The Summit is based on the concept that radical innovation is needed to meet the world’s health challenges, and that this requires On 10 and 11 December 2013, Qatar Her Highness Sheikha Moza bint Nasser more collaboration Foundation for Education, Science and announced WISH during 2012’s Global between those bodies Community Development launched the Health Policy Summit in London’s Guildhall, inaugural WISH at the Qatar National which was jointly organised by Qatar and individuals that are Convention Centre. Foundation and Imperial College London’s in a position to make a Institute of Global Health Innovation. A distinguished audience of decision- difference. I hope that in During Her Highness’ address, she urged makers and influencers from across the delegates to invest their efforts into time this annual event world convened to discuss practical, coordinating and improving prevention will become the Davos lasting and innovative solutions to global and treatment of diseases by exchanging of healthcare.” healthcare challenges. This high-profile ideas, collaborating and learning from event, which was the successor to 2012’s global experiences. Global Health Policy Summit in London, brought together heads of state, ministers, Through WISH, Qatar Foundation aims senior government officials, academics to create tangible and long-lasting and influential business leaders. solutions in healthcare advocacy, policy, research and delivery. In keeping with The mission of WISH is closely aligned this objective, the project is designed to to the vision of Her Highness Sheikha build a network of health experts and to Moza bint Nasser, Chairperson of Qatar facilitate an interdisciplinary approach, as Foundation, and represents her ongoing well as best practices that can transform commitment to raising the standards of healthcare policies and systems globally. healthcare nationally and internationally. Institute of Global Health Innovation | 13

WISH 2015: DELEGATES FROM OVER 93 COUNTRIES ATTENDED THE TWO-DAY EVENT IN DOHA TO DISCUSS KEY GLOBAL HEALTH POLICY ISSUES. THE SUMMIT WAS ATTENDED BY 23 HEALTH MINISTERS, AND A TOTAL OF 50 COUNTRIES WERE REPRESENTED BY A MINISTERIAL DELEGATION.

WISH 2015 was attended by 23 health ministers, and a total of 50 countries were represented by a ministerial delegation. Delegates from over 93 countries attended the two-day event in Doha to discuss key global health policy issues and hear key note addresses by Dr Devi Shetty, Narayana Health, and Don Berwick, Institute for Healthcare Improvement. Evidence-based policy reports presented at the summit have since been translated into articles which have been published in Health Affairs and presented in other global fora such as the APAC forum, Auckland, and the International Patient Safety Congress led by Apollo Hospitals, Bangalore. Policy reports from both WISH 2013 and 2015 can be accessed via www.wish-qatar.org/

Key policy reports from WISH 2015 • Communicating complex Miklós Szócska health messages Minister of State for • Delivering affordable Health at the Ministry cancer care of National Resources of the Republic of Hungary • Dementia • Diabetes • Mental health and wellbeing in children • Patient safety It is my conviction that • Universal health coverage “WISH has opened up new horizons of thought as regards to the application of technology and healthcare.”

Left: Dr Devi Shetty 14 | Imperial College London

OUR RESEARCH CENTRES

BRINGING TRANSLATIONAL RESEARCH ALONGSIDE POLICY AND A STRONG INTERNATIONAL PROFILE RESULTS IN AN INSTITUTE THAT IS VERY MUCH GREATER THAN THE SUM OF ITS PARTS. THAT IGHI CAN DISCOVER, CREATE, IDENTIFY, TEST, SPREAD AND PROMOTE INNOVATION ACROSS THE REALMS OF TECHNOLOGY, BUSINESS MODELS AND SERVICES ADDS VALUE TO PATIENTS AND HEALTHCARE SYSTEMS ABOVE AND BEYOND THE TRADITIONAL METRICS OF IMPACT. Institute of Global Health Innovation | 15

THE INSTITUTE OF GLOBAL HEALTH INNOVATION CONSISTS OF SEVEN CENTRES OF EXCELLENCE.

IGHI draws upon the unique inter- disciplinary strengths of Imperial College The Hamlyn Centre The Centre of African Research London across all of its faculties: Medicine, for Robotic Surgery and Engagement (ICCARE) Engineering, Natural Sciences and Developing safe, effective Facilitating the interactions of Business to achieve its strategic aims. and accessible imaging, sensing research groups active in this and robotic technologies to area across faculties within The Institute provides a powerful shape the future of healthcare. Imperial and national and engine to support the incubation and Co-Directors: Guang-Zhong Yang, international partners. Director: transformation of research groups into Ara Darzi. Est. 2010. Kathryn Maitland. Est. 2015. world-leading centres of excellence by first accruing a critical mass of academic brilliance, aligned objectives, funding The Centre for Health Policy The Centre for International and resources. Catalysing the development, Child Health As a coordinating force, the Institute uptake and diffusion of Hosting multi-disciplinary global supports these centres to promote innovative, evidence-based health research directed at the collaboration and access a diverse and health policy around the health and well-being of children rich network of internal and external world. Co-Directors: Ara Darzi, worldwide, and providing a partners from academia, industry, Elias Mossialos. Est. 2011. forum of resources and government and the charitable sector. connections for scientists, The seven core centres of IGHI are: clinicians and allied professionals The HELIX Centre for working in child health. Director: Design in Healthcare Beate Kampmann. Est. 2015. Transforming healthcare using design to make the UK a global hub for high-impact and yet The Imperial College simple, cost-effective innovation. Wellcome Trust Centre for Co-Directors: Paul Thompson, Global Health Research Ara Darzi. Est. 2013. Initiating and fostering research that improves health, and reduces inequalities in health and The Centre for Digestive healthcare, through generation and Gut Health and deployment of knowledge Developing new and innovative that can lead to more effective surgical, medical and nutritional and equitable prevention and tools and procedures to support treatment of illness and to new systems and treatments promoting positive health over in precision and gut medicine. the life course. Director: Professor Director: Jeremy Nicholson. Majid Ezzati. Est. 2013. Est. 2013. 16 | Imperial College London

HAMLYN CENTRE FOR ROBOTIC SURGERY

President Xi Jinping of China being shown round the Hamlyn Centre for Robotic Surgery by Professor Guang-Zhong Yang

This internationally recognised centre of surgeons, engineers and computer Key partners By bridging the scientists was founded on the principles • Boston Scientific innovation and of collaborative and multidisciplinary • Covidien translational science practice. By simultaneously advancing • GE Healthcare pathway the Centre has technology in response to an evolving • Hansen Medical fostered considerable clinical landscape, the group aims to • Harvard Medical School reduce the physical and psychological commercial success, traumas of surgery through minimal access • Intel including 20 unique and minimally invasive techniques. • Intuitive Surgical patents, and a far- • John Hopkins University From the advancement of basic research reaching international • Karl Storz Ltd and development, to the construction network of industrial and testing of robust prototypes in the • McLaren and academic partners. laboratory, and finally to first-in-human • Mauna Kea Technologies trials on patients in the operating theatre, • Medtronic the Hamlyn Centre exemplifies the • Technical University Munich, tripartite aims of the Academic Health Germany Science Centre model. • University of Tokyo, Japan By bridging the innovation and • University of Washington translational science pathway the Centre has fostered considerable commercial success, including 20 unique patents, and a far-reaching international network of industrial and academic partners. The Hamlyn Centre boasts a team of over 60 staff, over 35 of whom are PhD students, focused across three broad and interconnected themes.

www.imperial.ac.uk/hamlyn-centre/ Professor Guang-Zhong Yang and President Xi Jinping joined by Prince Andrew and George Osborne Institute of Global Health Innovation | 17

THE CENTRE IS AT THE FOREFRONT IN THE DEVELOPMENT AND INTEGRATION OF ROBOTICS INTO MEDICINE AND PATIENT CARE. ADVANCED ROBOTIC TECHNOLOGIES HAVE THE POTENTIAL TO TRANSFORM CONVENTIONAL KEY-HOLE SURGERY AS WELL AS DEVELOPING NEW APPROACHES TO INTEGRATED SENSING AND IMAGING FOR CANCER SURGERY AND TREATMENT.

Pervasive Sensing The Centre has developed image With the aim to provide safe, augmentation technology and a effective and accessible technologies novel guidance platform for for both developed and developing improving intra-operative decision countries, our researchers have making, which is now in clinical advanced the field of miniature use at St Mary’s Hospital and the and wireless body sensor OLV Clinic in Aalst, Belgium. networks. These technologies can monitor physiological, physical Biomedical Robotics and biochemical parameters in a This theme is dedicated to the multitude of environments and development of robotic technologies generate a wealth of valuable to transform conventional minimally biometric data without restricting invasive surgery, as well as or modifying patient behaviour. optimising and empowering robotic technologies with greater intelligence These networks and sensors will and precision. Within this theme we be essential for assessing the Academic output are developing miniature ‘microbots’ future health needs of patients Highlighted publications with integrated sensing and imaging and will provide a powerful tool to provide a vector for targeted to support the development of • Assessment of the cerebral cortex therapies and treatments within personalised and precise medical during motor task behaviours in humans, as well as designing new interventions and practices to adults: A systematic review of assistive robots for both clinical and support an ageing population. functional near infrared spectroscopy community settings. A novel solution ‘eAR’, a low-power miniaturised (fNIRS) studies, Journal: Neuroimage, to the limitations of rigid endoscopy, ear-worn activity recognition sensor Impact: 6.252, Citations: 42 the flexible iSnake® won the for wellbeing, personal training and • Spectrally encoded fiber-based prestigious 2011 IEEE International professional sports was spun out structured lighting probe for Conference Award for Robotics and as a commercial entity in 2008. intraoperative 3D imaging, Automation in Shanghai, China. The technology won the Bluetooth Journal: Biomedical Optics Express, Innovation World Cup in 2010. Impact: 3.176, Citations: 8 • Orientation Strategies in Biomedical Imaging Natural OrificeTranslumenal and Photonics Endoscopic Surgery, Journal: Through the development and Annals of Surgery, Impact: 6.329, translation of optical imaging and Citations: 6 spectroscopy instrumentation, for in-situ and in-vivo tissue editorials characterisation, we aim to advance > 5 real-time diagnostics as well as to > 80 journal articles push the boundaries of medical image computing and image-guided > 15 reviews interventions that harness MR, > 100 conferences CT and ultrasound modalities. 18 | Imperial College London

CENTRE FOR HEALTH POLICY

The Centre for Health Policy’s vision is Patient Safety to catalyse the development, uptake • NIHR Imperial Patient Safety and diffusion of innovative, evidence- Translational Research Centre Academic output based health policies around the world. (PSTRC) Highlighted It harnesses international events and publications forums to raise the profile of key healthcare The PSTRC is one of only two challenges and to amplify the impact of centres of excellence in the UK for • Technologies for global the Institute’s diverse research outputs. patient safety and it is funded by health, Journal: Lancet, a grant from the NIHR. The Institute Impact: 39.06, Citations: 122 The Centre’s work is focused on health has a pedigree in patient safety • Variation in reoperation after policy development, the diffusion of science from its central role in the colorectal surgery in England innovation, patient safety, e-health and development of the surgical safety as an indicator of surgical informatics (including Big Data), health checklist, and works closely with performance: retrospective economics, pharmaceutical policy, and the Patient Safety and Translational analysis of Hospital Episode quality outcome metrics. Current major Research Centre (PSTRC) to share Statistics, Journal: British programmes include: expertise, talent and resources. Medical Journal, Impact: 17.215, Citations: 71 • National Reporting and The primary aim of the Centre Learning Systems (NRLS) • A Key To Slower Health for Health Policy is to translate Spending Growth Worldwide NHS England has commissioned evidence-based research into Will Be Unlocking Innovation the Centre to deliver a research and To Reduce The Labor- the best healthcare practice development programme exploring Intensity Of Care, worldwide. the role of incident reporting within Journal: Health Affairs, patient safety. The ultimate aim is Impact: 4.641, Citations: 10 to better understand and specify the role of incident reporting within the broader patient safety landscape. > 10 editorials It is also to improve the processes, incentives and shared learning > 100 journal articles around incident reporting and the > 30 reviews NRLS. Ultimately, our research aspires to help build a greater focus > 10 conferences on patient safety and improved clinical outcomes within the NHS. www.imperial.ac.uk/centre-for-health-policy Institute of Global Health Innovation | 19

“IF WE DO NOT SHARE DATA IN THE WAY THAT IS NECESSARY, NOT ONLY ARE WE BREACHING THE RIGHTS AND OBLIGATIONS OF THE PATIENTS, WE’RE BREACHING THE RIGHTS AND OBLIGATIONS OF THE CLINICIANS. IT IS UNSAFE.” Dr David Stables, Peter Sowerby Foundation Trustee

Health Economics E-Health and Big Data Frugal and Reverse Innovation Led by Professor Elias Mossialos, • Sowerby Commission The Centre is conducting research the Health Economics Group works into Frugal and Reverse Innovation, The Sowerby e-health forum is closely with all of the Centre’s identifying innovations from low- and a research and development teams, harnessing global expertise middle-income countries that may offer programme that explores how the to measure the economic impact of potential value for high-income country use of electronic health records, various international policies and health systems. Commissioned by the healthcare data and health interventions in healthcare. The group US Commonwealth Fund, researchers informatics policy can transform uses mixed methods, both quantitative presented two innovations from Brazil the way the NHS delivers safe and and qualitative, to derive evidence and Singapore at a high-level policy effective patient-centred care. that policy makers can use to drive symposium in Washington DC in The forum looks at the potential quality improvement and efficiency December 2015 examining the potential for primary and secondary care across health systems, hospitals and for adoption of these innovations in data integration to improve service community care. A large part of the that context. delivery, healthcare research and research from the group is applied; as population health in this country. such, collaboration with clinicians and Safer Care Accelerator programme The forum is made possible by the hospital administrators is an important Peter Sowerby Foundation. The Safer Care Accelerator brings feature of their work. together healthcare leaders and • Big Data and Analytical Unit (BDAU) The group also leads three of the four organisations to exchange insights, core modules on the MSc in Health The BDAU brings together experts experiences and data around patient Policy at Imperial College: health from the fields of computer science, safety. Network activity comprises systems and policy, health economics artificial intelligence, statistics, a series of webinars, case studies, for health policy, and financing epidemiology and informatics, to surveys and insight reports and healthcare. create a data-driven evidence base will culminate with a final report for healthcare policy. The multi- synthesising our findings. • MINDSPACE disciplinary team conducts complex IGHI was central to the development and innovative analyses and develops End-of-Life of the MINDSPACE framework, new analytical methods to gain The End-of-Life Care Forum which has transformed the UK insight from large datasets. is a hub for all end-of-life care work government’s approach to behaviour performed within IGHI’s Centres of change in public policy. Utilising Global Diffusion of Healthcare Excellence. Our work encompasses areas this experience, the Centre is now Innovation (GDHI) such as health policy, patient safety, working with Qatar University The GDHI study is an ongoing research design and economics, developing to tackle childhood obesity, and programme which is investigating the evidence to improve end-of-life care Imperial College Healthcare NHS factors and behaviours which facilitate around the globe. The Forum’s projects Trust to improve patient medication the rapid adoption and diffusion of focus on improving access to essential adherence and hand-hygiene innovations across health systems. medicines in low- and middle-income compliance. Initial research led to the development countries, evaluating the cost, usage of a framework which identified system and impact of advance care planning, characteristics, enablers and frontline and using design principles to improve behaviours that were found to be the safety and experience of patients in necessary for the successful diffusion hospices and hospitals. of healthcare innovation. 20 | Imperial College London Institute of Global Health Innovation | 21

IF YOU WANT TO CHANGE SYSTEMS, YOU HAVE TO CHANGE PEOPLE’S PERSPECTIVES AND REKINDLE THAT YEARNING FOR LEARNING AND INNOVATION. THAT IS WHAT INVOLVEMENT WITH LHSN DOES.

LEADING HEALTH SYSTEMS NETWORK

Based at Imperial College and in partnership with the World Innovation Summit for Health (WISH), LHSN is a collaborative network of healthcare leaders and organisations dedicated to Scotland improving health care delivery by NHS Greater Glasgow effectively and efficiently using and Clyde available resources. Our network brings together the best ideas, models of care and England strategies to drive sustained NHS Arden & Greater improvement, and connects health East Midlands, NHS England care leaders to a like-minded community of peers that share the Italy same goals and challenges. Canada Friuli Venezia Giulia • Vancouver Coastal Health • INESSS (Quebec) Qatar • Hamad Medical Corporation Spain • Sidra BIOEF (Basque Country)

Singapore Changi General Hospital

India

Colombia Uganda Apollo Hospitals Fundación Santa Fe Uganda Protestant de Bogotá Medical Bureau

New Zealand Ko Awatea (Counties Manukau)

Australia Victoria Department of Health and Human Services OUR MEMBERS 22 | Imperial College London

HEALTH INNOVATION EXCHANGE (HELIX) CENTRE

The HELIX Centre is an exploration The Centre builds upon a strong into how design can transform health foundation of collaboration with the Real medical when it’s placed on the front line of the RCA and a proven model of bringing breakthroughs occur medical world – an acute general hospital together product and service designers when people-centred in Europe’s busiest city. and clinical staff. The ‘Redesign the design and scientific London Ambulance’ project won the UK HELIX was launched in Autumn 2013 rigour collide. Design award in 2012 for successfully and is a collaboration between the reworking the antiquated ambulance Institute and the Royal College of Art model to provide a more functionally (RCA). Working in partnership with the sound and ergonomical environment NHS and high profile industrial and that harnessed innovation in diagnostics academic partners, the HELIX team and digital networking to support safer design human-centred healthcare practice and better communication. solutions directed at some of the most pressing challenges facing healthcare.

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THE HELIX CENTRE IS A UNIQUE COLLABORATION BETWEEN THE ROYAL COLLEGE OF ART AND IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON. EMBEDDED IN A WORKING HOSPITAL, THE CENTRE HAS CLEARLY DEMONSTRATED THAT DESIGN AND INNOVATION IN MEDICINE CAN STEM THE TIDE OF RISING HEALTHCARE COSTS, AS WELL AS ADD SIGNIFICANT VALUE AND IMPROVE PATIENT CARE.

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Maja Kecman in the Helix Pop up at St. Mary's Campus. Women@Imperial Exhibition, the professional women category, showing non Academic women at work on the Imperial Campus.

Floot Zilli: a card game The HELIX team has for active kids developed a digital HELIX has explored ways platform to help children to promote physical manage their asthma activity through informal, by providing a simple, low-cost, sociable and fun way to take control fun ways to children. of their lung health. Zilli is designed for kids Children can attempt between 9 and 13, a challenges, such as time where there is a HELIX is unique in embedding a design making a dragon breathe lot of change in their team directly in a healthcare setting fire, by blowing a simple lives. We have created a working to translate research into whistle that comes with card game, Zilli, where Floot. The microphone participants set each Caremap: Improving scalable innovation. Opened in 2015 by in the smartphone other physical challenges cancer patient HRH the Prince of Wales, the HELIX studio listens to the pitch of to be acted out in a light- experience sits directly opposite the A&E department the whistle and records hearted and amusing HELIX has designed a at St Mary’s Hospital. It gives the process a peak flow reading. manner. The card game solution to help cancer of innovation a physical focus within the Floot can also be used is competitive, but patients understand their healthcare setting, and the architecture, to map attacks and not in the traditional individual care pathway, which is a welcome contrast to the their triggers, providing sense of established who their clinical team clinical spaces around it, gives designers, a comprehensive view sports; it combines are, where the key clinicians and patients a space to think of lung health to allow physical activity with wit, locations of their care freely and collaborate. children and their imagination and humour. are, and what third party doctors to actively Zilli appeals to groups services (such as charity The impact of HELIX is measured manage asthma to avoid of children and families support) are available by the rigorous validation of its complications. alike and offers an to them. The simplest innovations as well as the economic alternative form of element is a printed card and commercial success of its outputs. ad-hoc exercise with brochure that acts as a HELIX aims to generate IP and build broad appeal. discussion tool between clinician and patient. sustainable businesses. This new model This can also be used of translational research sees business as a web or app based development resource and skills portal, establishing embedded in the Centre to promote a digital connection the commercialisation process, and between the patient and this novel expertise, within the research clinical teams. setting, is expected to positively enhance the wider Institute and promote a culture of commercially attractive and focused research

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CENTRE FOR DIGESTIVE AND GUT HEALTH

Under the leadership of Professor The centre aims to bring together Jeremy Nicholson, the Centre for like minded scientists and clinicians Digestive and Gut Health (CDGH) is who recognize that the human a partnership between CSM, microbiome is an exciting new frontier Hepatology and IGHI and bridges in human biology. In recent years other departments and faculties, we have begun to realise that the including St Mark’s. collection of microbes which live in and on us are not just passengers, The Centre brings together expertise but key components in the day to in microbiology, gastrointestinal day functioning and development of surgery, gastroenterology, hepatology, mammalian systems. nutrition and computational and systems medicine. We now understand that human beings have co-evolved a requirement The Centre is based in the QEQM for the microbiome and that we may building on the St Mary’s Hospital not be able to function properly Campus and comprises multiple senior when we alter it, either intentionally investigators in many disciplines. or unintentionally. The microbiome All aspects of liver and GI disease has been linked to a significant are covered within the Centre. set of health parameters and also There is considerable expertise in disease states, such as colorectal genomics, proteomics, metabonomics, cancer (CRC), inflammatory bowel microbiomics and immunology. disease (IBD), liver inflammation, cardiovascular disease (CVD) and behavioural disorders such as autism. At the centre we are at the forefront of developing integrated models of the microbiome-host interactions with a strong aim of translating these into clinical practice.

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THE CURRENT PANDEMIC OF OBESITY IS A SIGNIFICANT AND GROWING HEALTHCARE ISSUE. THE CENTRE FOR DIGESTIVE AND GUT HEALTH IS AT THE FOREFRONT IN DEVELOPING TOOLS AND INTERVENTIONS TO EXPLORE THE COMPLEX ROLE OF THE GUT MICROBIOME IN OBESITY.

The CDGH is recognised as one of the foremost institutions working in digestive and colorectal disease. Its international standing is reflected in both the quality and number of academic papers published, as well as the Centre’s high profile representation at the major international meetings. The CDGH employs over 30 staff working across basic science, metabonomics, physics and engineering, focused on the clinical application of their research. One of the most high profile developments was the iKnife. This technology offers the prospect of real-time cancer diagnosis during operative procedures by harnessing ‘Intelligent’ knife detects cancer mass spectroscopy to detect cancerous by-products through the heated vapours released during incision. The publication MRes in the Microbiome of the iKnife paper was reportedly the in Health and Disease Academic output most media attention Imperial College has The educational course is designed Highlighted publications observed for a recent scientific discovery. to provide multidisciplinary • Title: Host-Gut Microbiota The group is commercially focused and training in microbiology, nutrition, Metabolic Interactions, Journal: has filed over six patents and propagated hepatology and microbial signaling. Science, Impact: 31.027, four associated commercial spinout The students will gain knowledge and experience in various systems Citations: 752 companies. biology approaches to understand • Title: Gut microbiome-host the functionality of the gut interactions in health and microbiome and develop new disease, targets for disease prevention and treatment. Journal: Genome Medicine, Impact: 3.91, Citations: 187 • Title: Metabolic surgery The group is commercially profoundly influences gut focused and has filed over microbial-host metaolic cross- talk, Journal: Gut, Impact: six patents and propagated 10.732, Citations: 192 four associated commercial spinout companies. > 100 journal articles > 10 reviews > 10 conferences 26 | Imperial College London

CENTRE FOR AFRICAN RESEARCH AND ENGAGEMENT

Imperial College has a wealth of scientists The ICCARE website aims to provide a and engineers working across Africa in a portal via newsfeeds for our partners to diverse range of health and environmental publicise their latest research outputs research programmes, yet there is no or awards for rapid dissemination, single resource on the Imperial College discussion and uptake of new ideas and website that captures this diversity or findings. The website’s interactive page scope of our work. will act as an importance source and catalyst in the pathway to impact of our The formation of a ‘virtual’ Africa Centre research outputs with respect to policy within IGHI aims to provide a portal that and practice. assembles our research, education and policy engagement and synthesizes this information under recognizable and logical themes within this resource. IGHI will hold regular forums to highlight key challenges being addressed by our work in Africa. The forums will focus upon particular health or environmental challenges to encourage dialogue between researchers with different backgrounds, a north-south and south- south exchange, cross-fertilisation of ideas and translational research. Imperial College Centre for African Research and Engagement (ICCARE) would therefore facilitate the development of interdisciplinary partnership, drawing on the wide range of facilities, skills and expertise within Imperial College.

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CENTRE FOR INTERNATIONAL CHILD HEALTH

The Centre for International Child Health (CICH) conducts, hosts and facilitates The health of multi-disciplinary research with a focus children worldwide on international child health. is intimately linked Led by clinical academics with an to their environment. international track record in paediatrics, We need to make sure it is a hub for activities and partners that we can address in multi-disciplinary research, all aimed at improving the health of children their needs through throughout the globe. cutting-edge multi- disciplinary research It facilitates the interactions of cross- Positioned within IGHI, the CICH has faculty research groups committed to access to the world leading expertise and policies that are global child health at Imperial College, based in IGHI-associated centres and can fit for purpose and has built a network of international focus such resources towards addressing partners. key questions in international child health. We provide a platform of educational Members and partners of the CICH resources and connections for clinician- are valuable resources for external scientists and allied professionals in order organisations to advise on needs, to train the next generation of leaders and interventions and strategies that can professionals in all aspects of international make a difference to the health of children child health. in a given setting. The CICH has created cross-faculty The centre has created partnerships with partnerships between medicine, international researchers and sites, who engineering, nutrition and education, share our vision of joint working for and brings together their diverse expertise child health. These partnerships facilitate and connections to give a unified voice exchanges of ideas, staff and students to child health at Imperial College within across continents and settings. its many international activities.

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THE IMPERIAL COLLEGE WELLCOME TRUST CENTRE FOR GLOBAL HEALTH RESEARCH

The Imperial College Wellcome Trust data analytics and business towards Centre for Global Health Research is cutting-edge global health research. It the centre has taken one of the five UK-wide centres funded encourages interdisciplinary and cross- major steps to leverage by the Wellcome Trust to enhance global faculty initiatives, and organises events Imperial’s strengths health research. and supports activities that will catalyse and enhance them. in science, engineering, The centre aims to initiate and foster medicine, public health, research that improves health, and reduces The centre also has a strong focus towards data analytics and inequalities in health and healthcare, identifying rising young researchers and through the generation and deployment of supporting their career development. business towards knowledge that can lead to more effective It also plays a major role in expanding cutting-edge global and equitable prevention and treatment Imperial’s training in global health topics. health research. of illness, and to promoting positive health The centre works with partner institutions over the life course. throughout the world on collaborative Our vision is to be truly global, to learn research and coordinated training, and from successful experiences throughout emphasises strengthening research the world, and to serve the disadvantaged excellence in low- and middle-income people and communities everywhere – in countries. We and our partners have remote rural areas as well as deprived research activities on every continent, English inner cities. and in every area of global health. Since its establishment in 2013, the centre has taken major steps to leverage Imperial’s strengths in science, engineering, medicine, public health,

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IMPERIAL COLLEGE IS ONE OF THE WORLD’S LEADING RESEARCH UNIVERSITIES AND WORKS CLOSELY WITH EMPLOYERS AND INDUSTRY, INCLUDING INDUSTRIAL ADVISORY PANELS, TO DESIGN MASTER’S COURSES WHICH PROVIDE GRADUATES WITH TECHNICAL KNOWLEDGE, EXPERTISE AND TRANSFERABLE SKILLS.

MSc IN HEALTH POLICY

• The Imperial College MSc in Health The taught modules cover the Policy is now widely recognised following areas of health policy: as the leading postgraduate • Financing Healthcare qualification of its kind. • Health and Society • With the emphasis on practical • Health Economics for management skills rather than Health Policy theory, the course ensures students • Health Service Delivery have the practical experience to • Health Systems & Policy make an immediate impact when in Developing Countries bodies. Most Master’s courses returning to full time employment. offer an opportunity to carry out • Innovation in Healthcare research projects in, or in collaboration • A workplace-focused dissertation is • Leadership in Healthcare / with industry. a key part of the course. Ageing and Society • All students are expected to spend • Measuring and Improving Key benefits Performance in Health Systems time implementing health policy • A detailed theoretical and practical / Communicating Health Policy skills in the work place setting. understanding of health policy from • The standard and quality of In addition, students undertake leading health policy academics and lecturers is second to none, a research dissertation during practitioners. consisting of respected experts the second year of the MSc in • Quantitative and qualitative research from international health care an aspect of Health Policy that techniques to be able to carry out systems, acting and ex-government will advance the understanding original study in health policy. ministers, and leading academics of best practices. • The ability to critique existing and and senior managers from the NHS. emerging health policy on the basis Career prospects of evidence and knowledge. Structure Imperial College is one of the • A comparative perspective on During the two years, students attend world’s leading research universities health policy which considers the four two-week teaching sessions and works closely with employers challenges affecting different regions at Imperial College. They also and industry, including Industrial and countries as well as different complete an individual dissertation Advisory Panels, to design Master’s potential responses to them. under the supervision of world class courses which provide graduates • An international network of researchers. with technical knowledge, expertise high-flying peers. and transferable skills and to • Skills and knowledge for leading encourage students to take roles in the healthcare sector. internships and placements. • A CV-enhancing Master’s qualification All Master’s courses are designed from a world leading university. with employer needs in mind, with some Master’s courses accredited by professional, statutory and regulatory 30 | Imperial College London

MSc IN PATIENT SAFETY

Introduction Is this programme for you? can also be used to enhance or This two-year part-time programme This Master’s level programme is develop a position related to patient offers a sound theoretical background designed for healthcare professionals safety and/or quality improvement. to the principles of patient safety and who have experience in their chosen It provides a solid foundation for quality improvement in healthcare. field, such as surgeons, physicians, those who intend to go on to study It provides rigorous academic anaesthetists, nurses, pharmacists for an MD or PhD. training, practical experience in safety and those from other allied health and quality improvement, and an professions. It is also relevant to Key benefits introduction to a range of relevant those who have a position related MSc Quality and Safety in Healthcare research methods. to improving safety and/or quality of graduates are able to: healthcare. • Demonstrate an understanding Programme structure The main topics covered are an of the essential theoretical and The programme is made up of eight overview of the current healthcare practical issues in patient safety taught modules (normally four per system including: how we manage and quality improvement year) of face-to-face teaching – risk and use information; incident • Demonstrate an understanding each last a week. Seven modules reporting, investigation and analysis; of, and skills in, risk assessment, are core (compulsory) and the eighth the impact of harm on patients and audit, incident investigation and is selected from a choice of modules staff; quality improvement tools analysis, and planning a quality provided by other MSc programmes, and techniques; and organisational improvement project e.g. Health Policy or Surgical aspects of safety and quality. In • Demonstrate skills in effective Education. addition a number of cross-cutting communication including report themes will be covered, including In addition to the taught modules writing, academic writing and teamwork, the patient’s perspective, and associated assessments students reflective practice are required to conduct and write effective communication and critical • Apply quantitative and qualitative up a research project, and submit a skills. research techniques to be able to reflective portfolio. We welcome applicants from the carry out their own studies UK and EU, and any students from Entry requirements outside the EU who have a visa to By the end of the programme, Prospective students will be expected work and study in the UK. students will have enhanced their to hold a degree in medicine or understanding of quality and safety as a minimum a Second Class in a Career prospects issues, have experience of using a range of tools and techniques healthcare-related subject, and have The Quality and Safety in Healthcare applicable to their own discipline three years of experience working Programme equips graduates to and healthcare in general, and in healthcare. On top of these, further their careers in healthcare have developed their research and Imperial College London has a set and in particular to enhance the statistics skills. of minimum entry requirements that safety of their own clinical practice must be met to be considered for a and to develop an understanding place on the course. of processes involved in improving quality and safety. The programme Institute of Global Health Innovation | 31

MSc IN HEALTHCARE AND DESIGN

Introduction students will be exposed to world • As the programme is part-time, The MSc in Healthcare and Design leading experts and facilities from we would expect students to be is an interdisciplinary programme both Imperial and the RCA, and employed and we will require a letter that draws on the complementary will also have the opportunity to of permission from their employer. knowledge and expertise of Imperial participate in a range of formative Is this programme for you? College London and the Royal College and summative individual and of Art (RCA). group activities. Combined with the This programme has been specifically face-to-face teaching, e-learning and designed to suit professionals working The programme is offered part-time blended learning modules will offer in or allied to the healthcare system or over two years with eight individual students the opportunity to advance those with experience of the healthcare weeks of intensive teaching their learning, achieve the specified space who wish to develop the skills (four blocks of two weeks). The learning outcomes and demonstrate to advance an entrepreneurial idea. programme runs alongside an MRes their progress. The programme has been developed programme awarded by the RCA. for part-time delivery, allowing you to The majority of modules (six out of The Imperial MSc programme has attend without having to take a year eight modules) are shared between been designed for clinicians and out of your career. We also encourage the two programmes, with two healthcare professionals, while the you to complete your reearch in your introductory modules designed RCA progamme is aimed at design own place of work (under Imperial’s specifically for each cohort to professionals. supervision), allowing you to embed introduce the principles of design and the knowledge and skills you have The two separate programmes build healthcare respectively. on the partnership between Imperial learned into your own area of practice. and the RCA, exemplified by the The research project will be Key benefits HELIX Centre, a design studio in St supervised by Imperial but with Mary’s Hospital bringing designers and the option for students to have a • You will be exposed to a world-class clinicians together for the first time second supervisor from the RCA. faculty who can provide knowledge to solve healthcare challenges. A key In addition students may choose based learning and encourage critical objective of the HELIX Centre is to to undertake this research project awareness of the current issues. You catalyse more innovative approaches in their workplaces, and to manage will be encouraged to translate this to improving health and healthcare this we may utilise ‘subject experts’ into your own professional practice. in workplaces to provide additional through human centred design. • You will be taught a range of support to students. This programme will equip students research techniques, alongside tools from a wide range of professional Entry requirements and frameworks that can be used in practice backgrounds with the tools the field of design and innovation. and techniques to develop their own • Normally, a 2:1 UK Bachelor’s Hons disruptive ideas as well as instigate Degree or an overseas qualification • You will be expected to develop and lead innovation in healthcare of equivalent standard. your skills, including collaborative systems, services and spaces. • Students will either have a clinical multi-disciplinary working, decision- background or will have other making, continuing professional Programme structure healthcare experience. Students with development and problem solving, Face-to-face teaching will take place design experience/qualifications will amongst others transferable skills. in each module during one-week be directed towards the RCA’s MRes long intensive sessions when programme. 32 | Imperial College London

MRes IN MEDICAL ROBOTICS AND IMAGE-GUIDED INTERVENTION

By leveraging the unique research strength, state-of-the-art facilities and multidisciplinary environment of the Centre, this MRes course is designed for science/ engineering graduates in traditional disciplines to enhance their career opportunities and progression in the following areas: • Academic research and PhD • Commercial research and development in medical robotics (the fastest growing sector in the robotics industry) • Clinical translation of robotic technology, in both public and private sectors (clinical uptake of robotic surgery and image-guided intervention has been rapid, showing over 50% annual growth in recent years) • Research or management career in the medical devices industry • Careers in IP protection, safety, and regulatory organisations related to medical robotics and image-guided intervention The course lasts for one year and consists of taught courses, a group research skills project, surgical skills training and a literature review leading to an extended project. Full details on this course are available at www.imperial. ac.uk/medicine/study/postgraduate/ masters-programmes/mres-medical- robotics-and-image-guided- intervention/ Institute of Global Health Innovation | 33

PhD PROGRAMME

The Institute is committed to training the next generation and hosts its own PhD programme which aims to attract and train the global health innovators of the future. Since 2011 IGHI has awarded 16 studentships (including six overseas) focusing on innovation in healthcare through policy, science, technology and design. The IGHI PhD programme is open to UK/EU and overseas students. The funding is for Centre for Health Policy Centre for Digestive and Gut Health three years and covers both fees • Patient safety • Optimising nutritional strategies to and living expenses. Research achieve a healthy gut metabolism progress is assessed each year and • Global diffusion of healthcare continuing receipt of funds will innovation • Phenotyping of malnutrition and depend on satisfactory academic • Advanced analytical techniques monitoring responses to intervention progress. applied to healthcare • Understanding mechanisms of diabetes resolution after Bariatric A number of research topics are • Economic evaluation of health surgery currently available to study across policies IGHI’s centres. Ideal candidates • Global health policy and universal • Modelling gut-microbial-human will have research interest in the health coverage metabolism in relation to disease following areas: aetiopathogenesis (for example, Hamlyn Centre for Robotic Surgery autism) • Medical imaging and robotics • Building chemically aware surgical • Pervasion sensing (body sensor devices for real-time operative networks and surgical implants) diagnostics • Medical devices and design in • Mass spectrometric chemical healthcare tissue imaging For further information: HELIX Centre for Design in Healthcare www.imperial.ac.uk/global-health- • User-centred design innovation/student-hub/phds-and- • Behavioural design courses/phd/ • mHealth • Frugal innovation 34 | Imperial College London

INSTITUTE AFFILIATES

The institute is fortunate to harness Professor Len Fass Sir David Nicholson partnerships with a broad network Former Director of Academic Relations, Former Chief Executive, NHS England of Visiting Professors and affiliated GE Healthcare Baroness Lindsay Northover leaders from across the international Sir Robert Francis QC Liberal Democrat Principal Parliamentary healthcare landscape. By working in Barrister, Serjeants’ Inn Chambers Spokesperson on International collaboration, IGHI can make better- Development, UK Parliament informed decisions and obtain a richer Professor Glenn Gibson understanding of the issues facing Head of Food Microbial Sciences Unit, Sir John Oldham global health today. University of Reading Former Quest for Quality and National Peter Goldsbrough Clinical Lead for Long Term Conditions Dr Faleh Mohamed Hussain Ali Senior Advisor, The Boston Consulting Group Dr William Owen Assistant Secretary General for Policy Professor Sian Griffiths Former CEO, Sidra Medical Affairs, Supreme Council of Health Board Member, Public Health England; & Research Center Dr Hanan al-Kuwari Director, Centre for Global Health, Dr Santosh Rath Managing Director, Chinese University of Hong Kong Honorary Professorial Fellow of Global Hamad Medical Corporation Phil Hope Surgery, University of Oxford John Appleby Former Minister for Care Services, Dr Julia Riley Chief Economist, Health Policy, Department of Health Consultant in Palliative Medicine, Royal The Kings Fund Sir Thomas Hughes-Hallett Marsden and Royal Brompton Hospitals Professor Sir Sabaratnam Arulkumaran Chair, Chelsea & Westminster Hospital Professor Richard Satava Head of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, NHS Foundation Trust Professor, Department of Surgery, St George’s University of London; Tim Kelsey University of Washington President-Elect of the International National Director for Patients and Egbert Schillings Federation of Obstetrics and Gynaecology Information, NHS England Chief Executive Officer of the World Robert Bell Edward Kiely Innovation Summit for Health (WISH) Chief Executive, Royal Brompton Honorary Consultant Paediatric Surgeon, Professor Jeffrey Shaw and Harefield NHS Foundation Trust Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children Honorary Professor at Central Academy Dr David Bennett Paul Levy of Fine Art, Beijing; Dean of the School of Former Chairman and Chief Executive Corporate Advisor, Author, Speaker Creative Media, City University of Hong Kong Officer, Monitor Professor Ric Marshall Dr Richard Smith Dame Ruth Carnall Former Director of Pricing, Monitor Director, UnitedHealth Chronic Disease Former Chief Executive, NHS London; Initiative; Former Editor of the British Strategic Advisor on Health to the Professor Stephen Matlin Medical Journal (BMJ) Mayor of London Former Executive Director, Global Forum for Health Research Dr Suzanne Suggs Ian Dodge Associate Professor, University of Lugano Director, NHS Group, Department of Health Dr David Mitchell Medical Director, Imperial College Dr Paul Thompson Stephen Dorrell Healthcare NHS Trust Rector of the Royal College of Art; Health Policy Consultant, KPMG Former Director, National Design Museum, Michel Mossessian New York City Architect, Mossessian Architecture Institute of Global Health Innovation | 35

FROM PROFESSOR THE LORD DARZI OF DENHAM

I understand the different “sorts of challenges facing us in healthcare across the world. I think the solutions are there, and the Institute of Global Health Innovation will provide us with a platform to make that change happen and to have that impact globally.” FURTHER INFORMATION

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