The Task Force for Child Survival and Development serves as a secretariat for the GlaxoSmithKline Child Health Recognition Awards. GlaxoSmithKline has establised the GlaxoSmithKline Child Health Recognition Awards program to encourage the development of creative and successful approaches to improve the health status of children and to honor those who contribute to improving the quality of life of children.


The Global Road Safety Forum uses data-based advocacy to mobilize efforts at national, regional and global levels to stop the epidemic of road traffic injuries in low- and middle-income countries. March 31, 2008 Ambassador Fuad Al-Hinai, Permanent Representative of the Sultanate of Oman to the United Nations introduced Resolution A/62/244 Improving Global Road Safety during the 62nd Session of the United Nations General Assembly. The resolution, co-sponsored by 94 nations, called for a United Nations ministerial conference on global road safety. General Victor Kiryanov, Head of the Russian Federation Road Safety Inspectorate, announced on behalf of his government that the Russian Federation will host the November 2009 conference.

Read more about the March 31st events at United Nations Headquarters and the Global Road Safety Forum on our website.


Parenting in the Real World: Kids Don’t Come with Instructions is an interactive parenting workshop designed to help parents of children from birth through 3 years cope with stress so that they can be better, more effective caregivers.


One-third of the world’s population is infected with tuberculosis (TB); one person is newly infected every second. More than 4,500 people die from TB every day, which adds up to almost 2 million deaths each year. Inadequate therapy has led to multidrug-resistant tuberculosis (MDR-TB), and new cases of MDR-TB are estimated to be more than 400,000 each year. Click here for more information

The National Viral Hepatitis Roundtable is a coalition of public, private, and voluntary organizations dedicated to reducing the incidence of infection, morbidity, and mortality from viral hepatitis in the United States through strategic planning, leadership, coordination, advocacy, and research.

Created in 1998, the Lymphatic Filariasis Support Center (LFSC) is based at The Task Force for Child Survival & Development. The mission of the LFSC is to provide the technical assistance and problem-solving research necessary to ensure a strong scientific base for the massive global public health effort currently underway to eliminate LF. The LFSC coordinates its technical assistance and research with targeted advocacy and fundraising activities. For more information, click here.

Justin's HOPE foundation will focus on Healthcare Openness, Professionalism and Excellence via education, research and reform. Our vision is to promote quality, safe, compassionate, patient and family centered healthcare and resolution of issues around medical errors through full disclosure. For more information, click here.

The Task Force for Child Survival and Development supports the Global Polio Eradication Initiative through partnerships with the World Health Organization (WHO), the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), and US National Program Vaccine Office (NVPO). For more information, click here.