Global Program in Pediatric Respiratory Sciences
The goal of the Global Program in Pediatric Respiratory Sciences is to advance the respiratory health of children in low-income and middle-income countries. Our work spans sub-Saharan Africa, South Asia, Central America and South America, with a primary focus on the countries of South Africa, Malawi and Bangladesh. We also work in Lesotho, Nigeria, India, Peru, Guatemala and Rwanda.
Clinical Education Activities
Our clinical education activities are currently focused on the respiratory management of people infected with SARS-CoV-2 across the country of Lesotho. Our research is concentrated on the epidemiology, prevention and treatment of pediatric respiratory diseases, recently including studying infant lung development and respiratory diagnostics in Bangladesh and non-invasive ventilation in Malawi.
The Global Program has supervised multiple pediatric residents and medical students in Malawi, in collaboration with University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill, during tropical medicine rotations and NIH-funded research fellowships at Kamuzu Central Hospital in the capital city of Lilongwe. We also advise Ph.D. students at the Projahnmo Research Foundation in Bangladesh, in collaboration with the University of Edinburgh’s RESPIRE program.
Liquefied Petroleum Gas or Biomass Cooking and Severe Infant Pneumonia
Eric McCollum, director of the Global Program of Pediatric Respiratory Sciences at Johns Hopkins, discusses his recent publication in The New England Journal of Medicine. The research discusses household air pollution from biomass fuels during cooking as a major risk factor for severe infant pneumonia in middle income and low income countries.
Our Global Health Partners
- Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
- Johns Hopkins Whiting School of Engineering
- Jhpiego
- Desmond Tutu TB Centre, Stellenbosch University (South Africa)
- Emory University
- University College London (UK)
- UNC-Chapel Hill (USA/Malawi)
- Cincinnati Children’s Hospital (USA/Malawi)
- University of Utah (USA/Malawi)
- University of Cape Town (South Africa)
- University of Edinburgh (UK)
- Sri Ramachandra Institute of Higher Education and Research (India)
- Projahnmo Research Foundation (Bangladesh)
- Lifebox Foundation (UK)
- Murdoch Children’s Research Institute and Royal Children’s Hospital (Australia)
- Karolinska Institutet (Sweden)
- Save the Children (UK)