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About us



What we do  


We are a health innovation partnership. We focus on the health challenges that have the biggest impact on the people most in need. Our work aims to prevent people from becoming ill, give them quicker access to care and transform the quality of their treatment.  

We use data to understand the health and care needs of our communities, and then we discover, source, develop, implement and evaluate health innovations to change lives for the better. 

Working as a partnership, we mobilise healthcare professionals, researchers, patients, industry and innovators to tackle the biggest health challenges facing our communities. Our focus is on improving outcomes in cardiovascular health, cancer detection, adolescent mental health, dementia, respiratory disease and vision loss.  

Where we work

Our region includes:

  • North central London
  • North east London

The region we cover is home to some of the most diverse communities in Europe, as reflected in our insights platform. More than a third of our resident Londoners were born outside the UK and nearly half identify as black and minority ethnic.

We work in some of the UK’s most deprived boroughs, where adverse environmental and socioeconomic factors drive poor health. There is measurable inequality in treatment access and health outcomes between and within our communities.  

The diversity of our population drives us to ensure the solutions we endorse are tailored to wide range of needs, leaving no-one behind and with relevance to an array of communities across the UK and globally. 
 

Our people

Leadership team


Meet our Leadership team.

Our board


Our board consists of representatives from our partnership. They are supported by the Executive Group, Audit and Risk Committee, Nominations Committee and Remuneration Committee. The members are:

  • Dominic Dodd, Chair
  • Ibrahim Abubakar, UCL
  • Mark Caulfield, Queen Mary University of London
  • Shane DeGaris, Barts Health NHS Trust
  • Zina Etheridge, North East London Integrated Care Board
  • Jinjer Kandola, North London Mental Health Partnership
  • Martin Kuper, Moorfields Eye Hospital NHS Foundation Trust
  • Pete Landstrom, Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust
  • Frances O’Callaghan, North Central London Integrated Care Board
  • David Probert, University College London Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
  • Matthew Shaw, Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children NHS Foundation Trust

Read the UCLPartners board register of interests.


Read about our work with industry

Working responsibly

Our Environmental, Social, and Governance group oversee our impact on the environment and society, and our accountability. Examples of this work include creating a carbon reduction plan.

Our Equity, Diversity and Inclusion (EDI) working group, formed of UCLPartners staff working across the organisation in a range of capacities, help to steer our work to become a more inclusive and diverse organisation. Read more about the EDI group.