Welcome

The Usher Building is a welcoming space for focus, collaboration and engagement.

Proposed view of Usher Building, looking across from current NINE Edinburgh BioQuarter building car park (Southern side)

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.

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

This article was published on 2024-09-24