Global child health

Our global programmes help us improve child health worldwide. Find out more about what we do and the impact we have around the world on our Global child health pages.

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RCPCH responds to The Lullaby Trust's newest data

20 October 2025

The Lullaby Trust have published new polling data showing that nearly one in three parents of babies delay contacting doctors due to fears of wasting NHS time.

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Project AEGIS - advancing equity for children and young people seeking asylum and refugees

Project AEGIS is an innovative, multidisciplinary, mixed methods research project, with co-creation with children and young people at its centre. AEGIS aims to answer critical questions about the health, education and social care outcomes of children and young people seeking asylum and refugees (CYP...

Community child health

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Royal College responds to humanitarian crisis in Gaza and calls on UK Government to intervene

25 July 2025

As a Royal Medical College, working on behalf of children, young people and health professionals, we are deeply concerned by the catastrophic humanitarian crisis in Gaza. We urgently call on the UK Government to do everything it can to help bring an end to this conflict.

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RCPCH Global: our engagement in Palestine

For over a quarter of a century, from its foundation in 1996, the College has engaged with and supported aid for Palestinian families and children in the Occupied Territories and through their dispersed refugee communities. This work has, throughout, been based on the universal rights of children to...

Global child health

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Barriers to healthcare are preventing UK children from receiving life-saving vaccinations

1 July 2025

In the midst of ongoing measles outbreaks, paediatricians say stubborn barriers to accessing NHS care are contributing to a worrying decline in vaccination coverage of children and young people.

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Our new Global Officer, Dr Arvind Shah

20 June 2025

Dr Arvind Shah (pictured) has been newly appointed as our Global Officer, working closely with the staff team and clinical volunteers to help deliver our global child health programmes. Arvind replaces Dr Sue Broster.

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RCPCH statement on Sudan - June 2025

13 June 2025

The Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health (RCPCH) remains gravely concerned about the escalating humanitarian crisis in Sudan. We are issuing this updated statement in light of the worsening conditions and the deterioration in the health and wellbeing of children across the country.

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Leading health organisations write to the UK Foreign Secretary regarding worsening humanitarian crisis in Gaza

4 June 2025

Royal Colleges and leading health organisations have written to David Lammy and urged for action to help protect children and healthcare workers in Gaza.

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Royal College responds to humanitarian crisis in Gaza and calls on UK Government to intervene

27 May 2025

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A manifesto for Wales - why now and why not you?

17 April 2025

The Senedd election in Wales is next May. So what better time, suggests Officer for Wales Dr Nick Wilkinson, to help ensure child and adolescent health and wellbeing top the list for debate? Here's how members in Wales can engage with our recently published manifesto.