King’s Health Partners contains groups and individuals responsible for education, research and service delivery within the field of global health that is both innovative and of the highest quality. The challenge for us as an Academic Health Sciences Centre is to facilitate connections and collaborations between these pockets of excellence, so as to develop critical mass in this discipline and to ensure that the whole is greater than the sum of its parts.

The vision for global health will be developed slowly and from the bottom up by sharing experience, building a global health community and creating opportunities for engagement for all our staff, rather than pursuing a topdown approach.

Our vision and community for global health will be developed through leadership and engagement from across the Partners. The new Global Health Offices at Denmark Hill provide a physical space for this initiative.

Initial global health activities will include:

• A series of global health events, an opportunity to share global health experiences and discuss opportunities for collaboration.
• An online portal, connecting people and activities engaged with global health.
• A regular newsletter with updates on latest developments and opportunities for engagement.

As the vision and strategy for global health are developed, there is the ambition to support the co-ordination of collaborative teaching and research, applications for grant funding and new international partnerships.

The Steering Committee for King’s Health Partners Global Health currently includes:

Prof Stephen Challacombe, Dean of External Affairs at King’s Health Partners
Stephen Challacombe is the Martin Rushton Professor of Oral Medicine and Head of Mucosal Biology Research Group. He is a long term member of staff who has both clinical and research interests and chairs the World Workshops on Oral Health and Disease in AIDS.



Mr Andy Leather, Global Health Education Lead at King’s Health Partners
Andy Leather is a Consultant Surgeon at King’s College Hospital. He started the King’s
THET Somaliland Partnership (KTSP) in 2000. He is also Programme Director for the new Intercalated BSc in Global Health.



Prof Martin Prince, Co-Director of the King’s Health Partners and LSHTM Centre for Global Mental Health
Martin Prince is Professor of Epidemiological Psychiatry at the Institute of Psychiatry at King’s College London. His main focus is upon mental health priorities in developing countries, coordinating since 1998 the 10/66 Dementia Research Group and co-editing the Lancet Series on Global Mental Health.


Prof Denise Lievesley, Head of School of Social Science & Public Policy at King’s College London
Denise Lievesley is a social statisticians who has previously held the posts of founding
Chief Executive of the English Information Centre for Health and Social Care; Director of
Statistics at UNESCO; and special advisor at the African Centre for Statistics of the UN.