The Else Kröner Center for Global Child Health is dedicated to fostering the healthy development of children worldwide. At present, it focusses its activities in Malawi and is actively contributing to the achievement of Malawi´s child health targets which are aligned with the Sustainable Development Goals. 

Our efforts are founded on an enduring partnership between the Kamuzu University of Health Sciences (KUHeS) as well as the Paediatrics and Child Health Association (PACHA), both in Blantyre, ​Malawi, and the Friede Springer Endowed Professorship for Global Child Health at Witten/Herdecke University in Germany. At present, the centre’s primary focus revolves around the development and dissemination of national paediatric non-communicable disease (NCD) guidelines and supporting post-graduate training of paediatric specialists. Given the rising importance of NCDs during childhood and adolescence and the dearth of highly qualified paediatricians, both projects reflect the needs of the Malawian society at large and, in particular, its newborn infants, children and adolescents.​The Else Kröner-Fresenius-Stiftung supports the funding of our projects.