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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