St. Jude Children's Research Hospital

St. Jude Children's Research Hospital is leading the way the world understands, treats and cures childhood cancer, sickle cell disease, and other life-threatening disorders. It is the only National Cancer Institute-designated Comprehensive Cancer Center devoted solely to children. Treatments developed at St. Jude have helped push the overall childhood cancer survival rate from 20% to 80% since the hospital opened more than 60 years ago. St. Jude shares the breakthroughs it makes to help doctors and researchers at local hospitals and cancer centers around the world improve the quality of treatment and care for even more children. St. Jude Global brings together individuals and institutions dedicated to improving quality of care and increasing survival rates worldwide for children with cancer and other catastrophic diseases. Through this initiative, St. Jude has made a commitment to fulfilling the founding vision of the institution: that no child should die in the dawn of life. St. Jude Global is organized into seven regional programs and a growing number of transversal programs, integrating research, innovation, and advanced education with program and capacity building. The St. Jude Global Alliance brings together more than 200 member institutions and foundations that are committed to addressing disparities in access to diagnosis and care around the world. St. Jude is the only WHO Collaborating Centre for Childhood Cancer and has partnered with WHO to create the Global Initiative for Childhood Cancer and is developing the Global Platform for Access to Childhood Cancer Medicines to address the inconsistent availability of quality essential cancer medicines.