About us

We aim to be sector leading in terms of our innovation, research, education and clinical impact. Our ambition is to see the work we do within the Faculty reset the dial on health outcomes for people in our city, and further afield.

Explore our 2025–2031 Faculty Strategic Plan.

I want every single staff member, student, postgraduate, partner and visitor who walks through the door of the Faculty to feel like they belong and that this is a fun, exciting place to be.

Professor Louise Kenny, Pro-Vice-Chancellor and Head of the Faculty of Health and Life Sciences

A civic university

The Faculty has contributed to the local health ecosystem for many years, through our strong partnerships with NHS Trusts across the region. We're proud of our history, but we're working to make even greater progress on the local health agenda.

Empowering the future healthcare workforce

Our research-connected teaching drives health innovation, empowering the next generation of scientists, dentists, doctors, veterinarians and healthcare professionals to make a real difference. We've trained 80% of GPs in the Liverpool City Region and the majority of allied health professionals in the area.

Making a global impact

We are already world-renowned for our work in infectious diseases, in global health and in clinical pharmacology. Going forward we want to maintain and build on our global impact. We're also concentrating on using the innovative work we do globally to inform the work we do locally.

A 'One Health' approach

Our work recognises the connection between human, animal and environmental health. We're combining our expertise across the spectrum of health and life sciences to tackle some of the world's biggest threats to humans and animals, including the rise of antimicrobial resistance.

Discover our research

Our research aims are to have a positive impact on the health and wellbeing of our city, our country and our planet. We will do this by focusing on areas where we are confident we already have, or can develop, world-leading expertise.

Across our institutes and centres of excellence, we use our breadth of expertise to collaborate and deliver meaningful impact from our research. We are working to address these key challenges at a local and global level.

Find out more about how we are addressing our key challenges.

Explore our institutes

Addressing the issues that are most important to local health challenges, delivering results from bench to bedside, positively changing patient care in our communities.

Institute of Life Course and Medical Sciences

Addressing the issues that are most important to local health challenges, delivering results from bench to bedside, positively changing patient care in our communities.
Institute of Population Health

Improving the health and wellbeing of the population and reducing inequalities by exploring how systems, practices and policies work together.
Institute of Infection, Veterinary and Ecological Sciences

Tackling major challenges of the 21st century, including emerging infectious diseases, food security, antimicrobial resistance and the impacts of environmental change.
Institute of Systems, Molecular and Integrative Biology

Responding to important societal problems, from improving crops to creating new diagnostic tools and therapeutic interventions across many diseases.

Vision, mission and aims

Our ambition

Improve the impact of our research on health outcomes, both locally and globally
Promote the role of the University as a civic institution
Position the Faculty as an integral part of the local health ecosystem
Raise our profile - to be recognised as world-leading in key areas of research
Excel in research-led teaching
Engage in effective partnership working across local, national, and global communities.