UCL and Yale unite to improve global health

UCL and Yale University have formed an alliance to improve global health through scientific research, clinical and educational collaboration. The agreement brings together the skills and expertise of UCL and its associated hospitals (known as UCL Partners), Yale University and Yale-New Haven Hospital. It is based on the universities? shared aims to advance biomedical research and treatment of disease for people around the world. Watch the Provost's comment at the signing. Both UCL and Yale University are centres of biomedical research and rank in the top echelon of educational institutions in the world. They hold fourth and third place respectively in the Times Higher Education'QS World University Rankings 2009, published today. The new collaboration will immediately create new joint clinical programmes to treat cardiomyopathy, congenital heart disease, sudden cardiac death and chronic total occlusion of the coronary arteries. In addition to exchanging expert physicians to treat individual cases at each site, the members of the collaboration will make use of telemedicine technology to share clinical information and expertise among themselves, and eventually with other institutions around the world. The Yale'UCL collaboration is the brainchild of Professor John Martin from UCL and Yale's Michael Simons, two distinguished heart researchers and physicians. The agreement was signed in the presence of Tony Blair, former Prime Minister of the United Kingdom who is currently teaching at Yale. 'UCL Partners welcomes the many opportunities this collaboration creates,' said Professor David Fish, Managing Director of UCL Partners. 'We can learn from each others?