With donor support, we’re training health care professionals, elevating standards of care and sharing life-changing discoveries across the world.
Expanding Expertise
Every day, we're working to improve the health of kids worldwide—and ensure that children no longer die of preventable or treatable conditions.
Our experts train thousands of health care providers around the globe each year, across every specialty. Through our unique hospital-wide Margaret C. Ryan Global Health Program, we work with partners in 60 countries to develop sustainable, lifesaving solutions to the biggest health challenges. And we protect vulnerable children living in areas devastated by conflict, disease and famine by equipping teams on the ground to provide vital emergency and trauma care and psychological aid.
We run the nation’s most competitive training program in pediatrics, with hundreds of residents and clinical fellows joining us each year. We host and train learners from all continents, many of whom go on to build child health programs across the United States and around the world, sharing their knowledge with countless others along the way.
Elevating Global Standards
Our experts are leading collaborations around the globe to address urgent needs, shape practices and deliver treatments so that children everywhere can thrive.
With newborn genomic screening, we’re detecting problems early when we can intervene and change a child’s life. We and other world leaders in child health are pooling our expertise and sharing genetic data to diagnose, treat and ultimately prevent diseases that cut short children’s futures.
As key advisors to the World Health Organization and Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, our experts are shaping public health policies that impact and protect children everywhere.
Making Discoveries that Save Lives
For more than a century, we’ve created new cures and treatments to help kids worldwide. We developed vaccines that eliminated childhood diseases—including polio and measles—in many parts of the world, launched the field of pediatric heart surgery with the first open-heart operation on a child and discovered the cause of lung injury in premature babies, leading to a lifesaving therapy.
Now, among other innovations, we’re working to restore vision and hearing loss, predict autism and suicide risk years earlier and prevent the emergence of devastating diseases through early detection and precision treatments.
Our researchers won’t stop until every child can reach their full potential.