Digital Health Technologies PhD

UCL (University College London)

This 4-year PhD programme provides multidisciplinary training for the next generation of researchers and innovators in digital health at home, in hospitals, and in the community. You'll receive the comprehensive training you need to develop digital health technologies that have a positive impact on patients and society. The NHS has launched a mission to become world leaders in digital healthcare, and digital health saw a record $24 billion of investment in 2020. This acknowledges that digital health technologies have the potential to tackle many of the challenges faced by the healthcare system – from infectious diseases to an ageing population and staff shortages. Advanced monitoring technologies, virtual wards, and ‘hospital-at-home' programmes are the future of healthcare, but this requires a new generation of digital health technologists, trained at the intersection of engineering, computing, data science and healthcare. This programme will produce highly skilled, multidisciplinary researchers and innovators in digital health. You'll receive a comprehensive training programme and pursue internationally leading research at the intersection of engineering, computing, data science and healthcare, to develop digital health technologies that have a positive impact on patients and society. This programme is for students with a background in engineering, physical sciences, mathematics or another related discipline who wish to produce a significant contribution to research within digital health technologies. This programme will allow you to develop knowledge in your area of specialism.