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Global child health programmes

We help improve child health worldwide, with cost effective, high impact programmes. We work with our membership of experienced paediatricians and other child health professionals as well as partner organisations.
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Supporting Ukraine

Following the ongoing violence and attacks on Ukraine, we've developed a live member briefing on what we are doing, activity you may wish to consider and clinical support and guidance.

Supporting Ukraine

Impact

In the last years, we've grown significantly, expanding the scale of our work. And, we've consolidated our strategy to focus on improving quality of clinical care for children in hospitals and health centres.
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Approach

We work with local partners, ministries of health and international development agencies in a wide range of low- and middle-income settings - with programmes in Rwanda, Sierra Leone, Myanmar, Nepal and Lebanon.
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Get involved

We support health systems strengthening in countries across the world, using clinicians' expertise to advise on programme strategy and directly mentor local health workers. We've also developed in-person and online courses and resources to support clinicians working in these settings.
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‘They are out, we are not.’ How overseas aid changed child health in Sierra Leone

The loss of funding because of the Overseas Development Assistance cuts in summer 2021 stalled a valuable programme. On RCPCH Insight, our blog at Medium, Dickya Labicane, Dr Alexandra Pledge and Dr Andrew McArdle spoke about the impact that programmes funded by overseas aid can have for infants, children and young people in developing countries, as well as how that impact carries back to the NHS.

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Get involved in our Global Links programme

Other global child health resources

Meet the staff team
Emergency Triage, Assessment and Treatment plus (ETAT+) - online learning
Working in fragile and conflict-affected states - our position
International work and repressive regimes - our position
Protection of children in conflict and child refugees - our position
Rights of migrant, refugee, stateless and undocumented children - our position
Global programme development grants (applications now closed)

Opportunities for international doctors

Visiting fellowships (applications now closed)
Medical Training Initiative (paediatrics)
International Paediatric Sponsorship Scheme (IPSS)
Further opportunities in the UK for international doctors

Related news

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COVID-19 and global child health

India and COVID-19 - our statement of solidarity - May 2021
How we're providing services in a pandemic - Dec 2020
Overseas aid joint statement with ICHG - Dec 2020
Impact of pandemic on global child health joint statement with ICHG - Aug 2020
Refugees and COVID-19 statement - Apr 2020