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Our DBA Health develops world-class senior leaders, skilled in using applied research to address the healthcare management and systems challenges organisations are facing now.
Delivering real-world impact through reseach based solutions
The UCL DBA Health focuses on developing your skills for evaluating, assessing, and overseeing healthcare management projects and research. These in turn will allow you to solve healthcare management challenges that your workplace faces.
Taught online over 5 years, this professional doctorate provides a rigorous programme of advanced health focused study and research that can be done alongside your career. The taught modules covered in the first two years of the programme provide opportunities to develop your skills and knowledge in key areas of business and health research methods to facilitate career development.
The advanced professional portfolio allows you to reflect critically on practice within your organisation and sector. The research component allows for the development of skills in critical appraisal as well as the ability to develop the rationale, methodology and methods for research.
DBA Health highlights
- Designed to provide flexibility for ambitious senior leaders the chance to study whilst working full-time
- Conducted in three parts - a taught element in years 1,2, a professional practice portfolio in year 3 and research phase in years 4,5
- Module teaching is primarily in the form of online synchronised and asynchronized learning material and interaction
- Face-to-Face attended sessions will be delivered each term as one-week blocks to enhance peer learning, engagement and networking opportunities
- Module consolidation seminars involving problem or case-based presentations relating to module content during the in-person block allow for knowledge and understanding to be tested, and for formative feedback to be given in advance of summative assessments.
- Students have the chance to also build own personal brand and learn how to write in professional journals
- Access to the academic expertise and interdisciplinarity from across the whole of the GBSH as well as experts from the Faculty of Population Health Science to support your development and research
- Located on UCL's state-of-the-art facilities in the UCL East campus
- UCL is second in the UK for research power and is ranked first in the UK for research power specifically in the disciplines of medicine, health and life sciences (REF 2021)
- Attending a world top 10 university ranked 5th in the world for global health (Shanghai Rankings)
- The inimitable experience of London – a global city that is a leader in health and business
What you will takeaway on completion of the programme?
On completion of this programme you will have:
- an enhanced understanding of the intersection between health and business
- substantial research and analytical skills and methodologies to use when designing a research project and applying research in healthcare management settings
- ability to conceptualize, design and implement projects for the generation and dissemination of research insights
- ability to use an evidence based approach to make informed decisions on complex issues
- skills to critically evaluate advanced academic work
- self-discipline for self-directed learning and reflective practice for life-long learning
- effective written and verbal communication skills, which support information and data management
- knowledge of the ethical, legal and regulatory issues associated with healthcare research
The UCL GBSH research environment
GBSH is a cross-disciplinary School that collaborates across UCL spanning several faculties and departments (Laws, Life Sciences, Brain Sciences, Medical Sciences, Engineering). Located in Population Health Sciences, the School benefits from that Faculty’s focus on health and related areas of education and research. These institutional collaborations are reflected in the interdisciplinary manner that research themes have been identified. The three themes we are currently focusing on are:
- Financial, operational, and systems improvements in healthcare
- Consumerisation of health and healthcare through digitalisation
- Future of health work and workforce
Given the fact that this School has been designed to have a professional postgraduate focus, it is in an excellent position to cultivate the intersection between academia and practice in health and healthcare business management, aligning the teaching, research, and community engagement to the needs of business with a focus on health.
FPHS is a very successful research faculty and will act as a mentor and collaborator to the School's research agenda through joint projects. The collaborations with other UCL faculties and departments distinguish GBSH both in its education and research domains.
The School has a Deputy Director for Research who oversees the research strategy of GBSH as well as runs bi-weekly seminar series for staff and students.
Most of the projects within GBSH are interdisciplinary and ran collaboratively with other departments. Supervision of DBA Health candidates will include those within the department as well as FPHS.
Similarly, to GBSH, the Faculty of Population Health Sciences strongly encourages collaboration between the departments and integrating GBSH students into the wider Faculty.
We believe that our DBA Health candidates will benefit from the strong research environment with the School in terms of ECRs and PGRs.
