The Coalition of Centres in Global Child Health, launched in July 2013, is a platform for academic centers of excellence to collaborate on child survival, health and development. Headquartered at the Hospital for Sick Children in Toronto, it focuses on capacity building, advocacy, knowledge generation, evidence translation and creating institutional linkages. There are currently over 30 members, including BC Children’s Hospital (Centre for International Child Health) and the Hospital for Sick Children in Canada, and Alder Hey Children’s Hospital, the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, the University of Edinburgh and University College London in the UK.
As part of SIN’s work on maternal/child health and global health, we will be supporting UK participation to the CCGCH’s inaugural meeting this autumn (for more information on the work the UK government is doing in this space, see the Health is Global paper from DfID and the Annual independent review of the UK Government’s global health strategy from the DoH on GOV.UK). We expect this to be an important time for global child health as the Canadian government continues its support for relevant initiatives and we move towards post-2015 projects.