Sarah Fortune, MD, received a Hood Child Health Award in 2007. Today, she is Chair of the Department of Immunology and Infectious Diseases and the John LaPorte Given Professor of Immunology and Infectious Diseases at the Harvard TH Chan School of Public Health, as well as Director of the TB Research Program at the Ragon Institute of MGH, Harvard and MIT.
Dr. Fortune recently participated in a press conference regarding the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. Access the HSPH recording here.
The deadline to submit a Concept Paper for the April 2027 Charles H. Hood Foundation Child Health Research Awards is approaching. Concept Papers are due
The Charles H. Hood Foundation is pleased to announce that the submission process has begun for the April 2027 funding cycle of the Child Health Research Awards Program, which supports early-career investigators pursuing innovative research to improve child health.
We’re inviting pioneers in pediatric innovation—clinicians, engineers, researchers, and visionaries—and key stakeholders from every discipline to join us again this fall for MIT-Hood Pediatric Innovation 2026, Oct 29, 2026
