By securing specialized surgical equipment, we supported Dnipro Children’s Hospital in expanding its surgical capacity and providing critical care to thousands of children affected by war-related injuries.

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.

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.

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.

Research efforts in Dominica identified the burden of noncommunicable disease deaths in the wake of Hurricane Maria.

As the COVID-19 pandemic spread globally, the GHP conducted the first large scale study to identify key COVID-related challenges and best practices in humanitarian settings. Conducted for the Global Health Cluster, this study informed WHO and country leaders on effective response strategies in humanitarian settings.

In partnership with World Health Organization-Europe branch, three BCH Global Health faculty provided technical assistance in Albania to WHO and the Albanian Institute of Public Health (IPH), an agency of the Ministry of Health, to launch the "Cohort study to measure COVID-19 vaccine effectiveness among health workers in Albania."

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

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.

Providing essential care in the immediate post-hurricane period through door-to-door medical visits, field hospitals, and patient transport alongside the U.S. Army.

As the war in Ukraine continues, the mental health needs of children in de-occupied areas are vastly under recognized and under addressed. BCH is partnering with a Ukrainian NGO called Community Self-Help to train front line protection workers and first responders on mental health and psychosocial skills to support children and families in newly de-occupied areas.

In 2020, the GHP supported the World Health Organization's COVID-19 Task Team by performing a study in humanitarian settings to understand the operational challenges for COVID-19 response faced by front-line workers.