CHOP’s Global Health Center is leading the charge to improve the health and well-being of children and adolescents in low- and middle-income countries.
A group of prominent vaccine researchers, including The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia Research Institute's chief scientific officer, Philip R. Johnson, MD, and the University of Pennsylvania's Stanley Plotkin, MD, recently called for a "human vaccines project" to accelerate the development of vaccines to prevent "major global killers such as AIDS, tuberculosis, malaria, and other infectious diseases."