The Usher Building provides space and opportunities for academics and partners to work and collaborate in new and innovative ways towards our shared purpose of developing data-enabled solutions to benefit health and wellbeing. The design of the spaces has been informed by feedback received from consultation groups. It is home to our on-campus Master of Public Health programme - with our students bringing enthusiasm and new perspectives each year - as well as being the base for our online postgraduate taught programmes.
Its location is a core part of Edinburgh’s Health Innovation District at BioQuarter and helps to develop links to the local community.
Construction drone footage taken September 2022 © McLaughlin & Harvey
The design and location of the Usher Building will support the further development of our world-leading innovation hub where public, private and third sectors collaborate to enable data-driven advances in the delivery of health and social care.
We look forward to welcoming you into this exciting new space - where our staff, partners, members of the local community and wider publics will have the opportunity to collaborate, engage and co-develop innovations. Through these collaborations, the Usher community at The University of Edinburgh will support a data-driven approach to transforming health and wellbeing in society.
Professor Sir Aziz Sheikh OBE
Director of the Usher Institute and Dean of Data, The University of Edinburgh