When disaster strikes, it’s children who often suffer the most, especially kids living in poverty.  Whether it’s a flood, hurricane or epidemic, Children’s Health Fund is committed to both responding quickly and staying for the long haul.  The ability to act swiftly is critical in emergency response, and as Hurricanes Harvey and Irma have shown

In 1986, as New York City reeled from a crack epidemic and runaway violence, Paul Simon, the musician, and Irwin Redlener, a doctor, paid a visit to one of the city’s notorious welfare hotels, the Martinique in Midtown Manhattan. The two had been working together to raise money and awareness for children in Africa, as part

In the South Bronx, Diana Cardona works as a dentist out of a giant blue truck, in a program run by the Children’s Health Fund and the Children’s Hospital at Montefiore. The program gets federal funds to serve poor communities. “Can you fix this?” a woman once asked as she spat six crowns into her hand one by one.

The New Orleans Children’s Health Project is a partnership with Children’s Health Fund and gets funding from Red Nose Day. We meet Dr. Kim Mukerjee, a pediatrician for NOCHP, and Jeanne McKay, NOCHP’s senior program manager, at Tulane’s School of Medicine in Downtown New Orleans. McKay tells me their program was born out of Hurricane

(New York) – Children’s Health Fund, the nation’s premier nonprofit healthcare organization for disadvantaged children, announced two new members of its board of directors this week. World-renowned artist Chuck Close and biotech entrepreneur Dipal Doshi join the board as Children’s Health Fund enters its 30th year of service. “We are pleased to welcome Chuck and