The Hospital for Sick Children

Published purpose

The SickKids Global Child Health Program aims to improve the quality of child health care in Ghana through the development and introduction of a paediatric nursing education program at the University of Ghana and the University of Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, in collaboration with local partners. This program includes the development of curriculum to train nurse trainers, and delivery of a specialist training program to 100 nurses and nursing students in Ghana and around 30 in Ethiopia (in majority women). Graduates are deployed both as fellow nurse educators and paediatric nurses to clinical settings across both countries. The Program also aims to train front-line health workers in Tanzania in the provision of health services for children and adolescents.