[1][2] The university offers graduate level courses in medicine, dentistry, pharmacy, nursing, allied health sciences and biomedical engineering.

Its ethos from its beginning has been to produce highly relevant research that solves real health problems and improve people's quality of life.

At present, extensive on-campus research is going on in 183 areas including Asthma, Diabetes, Tuberculosis, Typhoid, Infertility, Environmental Pollution, various types of Cancer, Genetic Disorders, Consanguinity, DNA Analysis, Developmental Abnormalities, Metabolic Syndromes, Hepatitis B and C, Liver and Renal Disorders.

[3] In July 2019, Javed Akram, Vice Chancellor of University of Health Sciences, Lahore signed the 'Kunming Declaration' to become founder member of 'South and Southeast Asian Medical Education and Service Alliance (SSAMESA).

According to Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) report, some of the staff members were involved in the paper leakage and had been doing it for the past several years.