A long-standing partnership with Centro Ann Sullivan del Perú is turning a Peruvian-developed, family-led approach to neurodevelopmental care into a manualized, adaptable model successfully tested across borders and now being prepared for communities more broadly.

Boston Children’s partners with SOLA, the world’s only boarding school for Afghan girls, to build a trauma-informed, culturally affirming system of care that integrates student wellbeing across academic and residential life and strengthens staff and programmatic capacity to support students.

Boston Children’s Global Health Nursing Fellowship (GHNF) is sharing clinical expertise and capacity support through a nursing-led neonatal and lactation initiative at Chenla Children’s Hospital in Kratie, Cambodia. The project is a partnership with local hospital leadership and staff and reflects a systems-oriented approach to improving care in outpatient, inpatient, NICU, and PICU settings.

Natalie Nanez, a pediatric resident in the Boston Combined Residency Program (BCRP) Global Health Pathway at Boston Children’s Hospital, traveled to Tecpán, Chimaltenango, Guatemala, to partner with Wuqu’ Kawoq Mayan Health Alliance to address Neonatal Mortality in Rural Guatemala. Through clinical, educational, and community-based activities, the project focused on strengthening neonatal and maternal health care in a low-resource setting.

Partnering with the JFK Medical Center in Monrovia, Liberia, global health nurses are supporting pediatric and neonatal nurse capacity building by developing and implementing through competency-based education, simulation training, mentoring, and locally led curriculum development to strengthen clinical care and reduce preventable newborn and child mortality.

In partnership with Bugando Medical Centre and the Tanzanian Ministry of Health, this project leverages statistical methods to model surgical complications and evaluates the impact of Early Warning Systems and resuscitation training.

This project is focused one developing and validating computer vision and AI models to non-invasively detect and monitor neonatal respiratory distress in real time.

These milestones were developed with the input of global health educators from around the globe, in order to guide both educators and learners on their journey toward equity and decoloniality in global health.

Training and education around the identification and management of hospitalized sick children was identified as a priority by the leadership in two oncology wards in the occupied Palestinian Territory.

The Human Resources for Health (HRH) Program, a 7-year capacity strengthening partnership between US academic institutions and the Rwandan Ministry of Health, ended in 2019. While the COVID-19 pandemic limited the ability to provide in-person post graduate teaching, our team helped bridge this gap by collobratively developing and implementing hybrid pediatric and public health training for resident physicians.

BCH GHP has partnered with Bukhara State Medical Institute in Uzbekistan to enhance pediatric hospital care. Our multi-disciplinary team of physicians and nurses visited Bukhara to collaborate on a self study working towards achieving international hospital accreditation.

In early 2020, Dr. Mohsin Ali joined our collaborators in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, where he taught epidemiology and biostatistics to pediatric residents and gained clinical experience working with partners at Muhimbili University and Muhimbili National Hospital.

During her Global Nursing Fellowship, Marilyn Moonan collaborated with a nursing program in Yangon, Myanmar to guide and support nurses with educational initiatives that will improve nursing practice, clinical skill and patient outcomes.

In 2016, the MCRGHP partnered with the Laos Friends Hospital for Children (LFHC), in Luang Prabang, Laos, the country's only pediatric hospital outside of the capital city of Vientiane. For four years, the GHP collaborated with LFHC with physicians, nurses and physician assistants to assist in training and mentorship of the Lao clinicians in the care and management of sick or injured children.

Helping Babies Breath provides birth attendants in Haiti life-saving training in neonatal resuscitation and care.

The BCH Global Pediatric Innovation Scholars program is an initiative created to support partners in implementing a project to improve pediatric clinical care or medical education in their home institutions. Visiting scholars are invited for a month-long observership at BCH and, in the following year, participants meet virtually with BCH collaborators for continued support towards their goals.

The Pediatric Global Health Clinical Skills Course at MCRGHP provides practical, hands-on skill training and case-based teaching grounded in international best practices to support pediatric care provision in resource constrained settings.

Launched in 2020, the Pediatric Overflow Planning Contingency Response Network (POPCoRN) is a multi-institutional initiative that supports pediatric physicians in providing adult care during the COVID-19 pandemic, focusing on collaboration, education, and health equity.

A novel pediatric and nursing trauma care training program was developed and implemented across Ukraine to strengthen trauma care capacity. Training has been transitioned to locally-led programs integrated within national education systems.

A nursing collaboration in Haiti provided education to 46 nurses from 11 hospitals across the country in neonatal intensive care and pediatric emergency/critical care during a 6-month training program. Haitian nurse educators were trained to independently facilitate the course and successfully implemented it in subsequent years.

Enhancing pediatric care in Rwanda by partnering with Human Resources for Health and the Rwandan Pediatric Partnership to advance pediatric training by providing distance learning for subspecialty education needs during the COVID pandemic.

In partnership with BCH’s Community Health Program and Boston Public School (BPS) nursing leadership, the GHP led a collaborative program to support the unique and critical needs of BPS nurses on the front lines during COVID.

Enhancing healthcare for Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh through targeted training, needs assessments and technical support for midwives, paramedics, and community health volunteers.

Through our Indigenous Health Program, we partner with Indian Health Service to deliver high-quality, localized pediatric care, improving access to care and health outcomes for American Indian children in the Great Plains Area.

The Neonatal Resuscitation Program (NRP) Plus was launched at Cheyenne River Health Center to enhance neonatal care for the Lakota Tribe as part of a broader collaboration with Indian Health Services to support community health and education initiatives.

To address the unseen impacts of armed conflicts on children, a team of child protection workers, social workers, nurses, and sociologists, evaluate mental health and psychosocial support needs to explore how factors such as health and hygiene, food and nutrition, and education impact mental health in Tigray, Ethiopia.

To address the critical shortage of pediatric anesthesiologists in Africa, the Paediatric Anaesthesia Training in Africa (PATA) Collaborative focuses on building local capacity through fellowship programs and intensive training

GHP has been pivotal in post-war Liberia, establishing the first pediatric residency program and training 32 pediatricians locally for the first time in the country's history. Work now focuses on expanding pediatric specialty care, improving newborn care, and supporting ongoing research and training across Liberia and West Africa.

Boston Children’s Hospital has maintained a partnership in Zambia since 2014. This initiative has resulted in training Zambia’s first child neurologists, as well as numerous clinical officers and community health workers. Research in epilepsy, malaria, and medical education have helped address critical gaps and advance pediatric neurology care.

BEPREPARED is a partnership with CARE-India and the Bihar State Ministry of Health to assess, design, implement and evaluate emergency care systems improvements. A multimodal intervention including equipment investment, renovation, just in time teaching and shoulder to shoulder mentorship emergency care was strengthened at five District Hospitals in Bihar State, India serving over 15 million people.

Due to severe neurosurgical care shortages in the Caribbean, Carly Campbell traveled to Antigua and Barbuda as part of her Global Nursing Fellowship to assist a team of surgeons in performing neurological surgeries, assess local needs, and develop strategies for sustainable improvements in care and education.

Global Health Nursing Fellow, Erin Babine, facilitated Basic Life Support training for 37 health care professionals in Bangladesh.

From 2020-2024, a specialized pediatric oncology curriculum developed by Ghanaian stakeholders and international partners was taught by Colleen Nixon and Kim Shephard to 29 nurses from 6 hospitals throughout Ghana.

Nearly half a million babies, mostly in low- and middle-income countries, are affected by hydrocephalus each year; in partnership with GHP, NeuroKids is addressing this by training global surgeons in ETV/CPC, a minimally invasive alternative to shunt-dependence.

In 2021, clinical leaders at JFK Medical Center (JFK) in Monrovia, Liberia identified targeted neonatal nursing education as a priority initiative. This partnership is a continued collaboration for neonatal nursing support between Boston Children’s Hospital’s Global Health Program (BCH) and JFK.

Established the foundation for a pediatric clerkship at the Rwanda Military Hospital in Kigali, Rwanda that included restarting simulation cases and reviewing the medical education curriculum.