Healing Children, Changing Lives

At the Boston Children’s Hospital Margaret C. Ryan Global Health Program, we focus on impact. For us, impact means action — sustainable, pragmatic strides toward the goal of every child everywhere having access to safe and quality healthcare. Join us in our global journey to make a difference — one child at a time.

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Our approach to building sustainable solutions

Focus on the whole child

Rather than focus on a single disease, we address the broad spectrum of children’s health. Our emphasis is on meeting growing children’s changing needs in innovative, sustainable ways.

Provide expertise and, more importantly, transfer it

Our solution-driven approach equips local partners to work independently. From day one, we start moving toward our exit strategy. This model allows us to direct the majority of funds to programming, not our own operations.

Deliver sustainable solutions

We operate in a partnership model, working with local organizations such as governments, universities, and public hospitals, and together solve the problems our partners prioritize. We embed solutions within existing local frameworks to ensure sustainability.

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Stories from around the world

From Haiti and Liberia to Ukraine and India, our work is advancing pediatric care and enriching young lives across the world. Discover how we're making a global impact, one child at a time.

Our Impact

Trauma Care Training across Ukraine

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 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.

Supporting Pediatric Care for Indigenous Children

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.
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.

Thriving Child Tigray

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 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.

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