improving the health of children around the world

About the Stanford Global Child Health Program

We are committed to improving the health and well-being of children around the world through medical training, multi-disciplinary research, and improved clinical care for the underserved. Our team is equipping the next generation of physician-leaders in global pediatrics. 


Global Child Health Program News

  • Was MDB Reflection

    Seven years ago I found myself in South Africa’s Johannesburg International Airport, sitting alone in a restaurant and fighting back tears.


  • Sarnquist SVRI video

    Stanford researcher, Dr. Clea Sarnquist attended the Sexual Violence Research Initiative's biennial forum in Stellenbosch, South Africa.


  • Resident Jason Nagata, Tiger Cub

    October 19, 2015 Global Health scholarly concentration resident, Dr. Jason Nagata "was born in the year of the tiger to a Chinese Tiger Mom", as he writes in a personal essay recently published in JAMA Pediatrics (subscription required).


  • Polio project profiled on Stanford Medicine

    Dr. Bonnie Maldonado's polio research project in Mexico is profiled on the Stanford Medicine news site.


  • News


  • New Resident Publications

    Dr. Jason Nagata has co-authored a new journal article published in the Lancet HIV.


  • Nelson Commentary on Cholera in Nepal

    Dr. Eric Nelson and his colleagues have published a commentary in the August 2016 edition of PLOS Neglected Tropical Diseases examining the answers to that question.


  • Nagata AAP Award


  • Maldonado awarded Gates funding for polio research

    Director of Academic Global Child Health, Dr. Bonnie Maldonado, has been awarded new grant funding from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation to explore the dynamics of oral polio transmission.


  • Maldonado Huffington Post

    Our own Dr. Bonnie Maldonado recently contributed her expertise to the Huffington Post blog, entitled, " The Road to Making Polio a Disease of the Past.




UPCOMING EVENTS

Global Child Health Evening Session

December 10, 2015, 6:30-8pm

LPCH Boardroom

Works in Progress by Adam Was and Gavin Hartman

RSVP to Jenny Kang

 

Center for Innovation in Global Health Research Convening

January 20, 2016

 

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