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Department of Global Health & Social Medicine

School of Global Affairs

Our research

Health and illness have crucial social and political dimensions – raising profound social, political and ethical challenges in all regions of the world. Our research engages with these issues through conceptually rigorous empirical research with important practical and policy implications.

We are ranked within the top 10 sociology departments in the UK, and 100 percent of our research impact is judged to be world-leading or internationally excellent.

King’s has historically been at the forefront of medical research and teaching – our departmental research culture builds on this excellence to extend health research in a social context. We do this by exploring the new issues raised by developments in biomedicine and beyond.

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Our research

Research and expertise

Research and expertise

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Research impact

Research impact

Demonstrating that health is more than a medical matter.

Research centres and groups

Research centres and groups

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Our people

Our people

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News and events from the Department of Global Health & Social Medicine

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9 April 2025

Master's students tasked with informing politicians

First job as interns was to submit evidence to Parliamentary inquiry

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2 April 2025

Researchers awarded £1.8M to improve job retention for disabled workers

King’s to play major role in project investigating whether ‘job crafting’ can help disabled workers…

13 Nov

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Seminars hosted by the Department of Global Health & Social Medicine

13 November 2024

GHSM welcomes you to listen to invited speakers and King's academics who will share their research.

14 May

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From risk to harm: Law, techno-solutionism and digital health behavioural economics in a post-colonial context

14 May 2025

The promise of digitalisation in achieving Universal Health Coverage in post-colonial contexts is…

	
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