Global Health and Social Medicine Research PhD

King's College London, University of London

Global Health and Social Medicine welcomes applications to join our lively and mutually-supportive community of doctoral students. Working on and across our key research themes, the growing community is co-located in our research lab with visiting researchers, research fellows and professors. Students benefit from our active participation in the London Interdisciplinary Social Sciences Doctoral Training Centre (LISS-DTP), which provides training and leadership in relevant cross-cutting themes. Within Global Health and Social Medicine, we also offer a thriving programme of workshops, reading groups and other events. Course Detail Research in the Department of Global Health and Social Medicine (established January 2012) focuses on the social, political, economic, legal and ethical factors shaping developments in biomedicine, disease and healthcare and their implications. We have research priorities in the following areas: Social determinants of national and global inequalities in health, including from life-course and international comparative perspectives; Philosophical and ethical aspects of global health pertaining to theories of social justice; Social, ethical and political implications of developments in psychiatry, neuroscience and brain research, and the changing territory of mental health; Political economy, sociology and history of pharmaceutical regulation, innovation and pharmaceuticalization, especially drug safety and efficacy; Social study of reproductive technologies; Social, ethical, and regulatory aspects of personalised and data-driven medicine, of bio-information use in forensics and policing, and of innovation and translation in genomics, stem cells and neuroscience; The ethical and social implications of conducting research with human participants, and of making treatment decisions at the end of life.