UCL Great Ormond Street Institute of Child Health

The UCL Great Ormond Street Institute of Child Health (ICH) is an academic department of the Faculty of Population Health Sciences of University College London (UCL) and is located in London, United Kingdom. It was founded in 1946 and together with its clinical partner Great Ormond Street Hospital (GOSH), forms the largest concentration of children's health research in Europe. In 1996 the Institute merged with University College London. Current research focusses on broad biomedical topics within child health, ranging from developmental biology, to genetics, to immunology and epidemiology.
History.
The Institute of Child Health was founded in 1946 by professor Alan Moncrieff with the funding of a chair in child health by the Nuffield Foundation. It acted as a postgraduate school of preventive and therapeutic paediatrics of Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children and the University of London. Moncrieff served as director until 1964.
Research.
ICH sets out its mission to improve the health and wellbeing of children, and the adults they will become, through world-class research, education and public engagement. To further this agenda, ICH joined the Faculty of Biomedical Sciences at University College London in 2006. The research is internationally recognised, with the ICH gaining Grade 5*A in the Higher Education Funding Council for England ratings. The institute also won the Queen's Anniversary Prize for Higher Education in 2000.
Through the enabling of various funding bodies incl research councils, charities as well as industry, the Institute annually trains doctoral students, medical students and other postgraduates.
There are five academic programmes in the Institute: Developmental Biology and Cancer, Developmental Neuroscience, Genetics and Genomic Medicine, Infection, Immunity, Inflammation, and Population Policy and Practice.
Library.
The Library provides information support and information skills training for staff and students at the Great Ormond Street Institute of Child Health and the staff of Great Ormond Street Hospital. It is located on the 2nd floor of the UCL Great Ormond Street Institute of Child Health main building.
The Library was refurbished and reopened in August 2017. Its facilities include:
The Library holds a range of resources (databases, e-resources and books) as well as offering training sessions and online tutorials.
Historical collections.
The Friends of the Children of Great Ormond Street Library holds a substantial collection of historical books and reprints of papers published by staff at Great Ormond Street Hospital and the Institute of Child Health. The historical collections also include around 2500 volumes on paediatrics and the history of paediatrics, some dating from as early as 1819.
Library opening hours.
The Library is staffed from Monday to Friday, between 9:00am and 6:00pm.
Key facts.
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Notable faculty.
Notable faculty of the institute, past and present, include: