African Brain Child

The African Brain Child Initiative is a clinical and research initiative based in the Paediatric Neurosurgery Unit at Red Cross War Memorial Children’s Hospital and the University of Cape Town’s Neuroscience Institute. Our vision is an Africa where children with conditions that affect their brain can maximize their potential. At our core, we provide advanced medical and surgical care to children with a broad range of brain conditions. The Paediatric Neurosurgery Division at Red Cross War Memorial Children’s Hospital is the leading tertiary paediatric neurosurgery service in Sub-Saharan Africa. We manage a broad range of patients nationally and internationally with pathologies including brain and spinal cord tumours, trauma, infections, hydrocephalus, congenital anomalies, epilepsy, movement disorders, vascular pathologies and numerous other specialist conditions. Our clinical team are world leaders in innovative neurosurgical techniques and offer the most comprehensive multimodality neurocritical care. Patient care is informed by research findings generated in our own lab and from elsewhere, we prioritise individualised precision-medicine, and have achieved significant advances in patient management and outcomes across diverse conditions. Our clinical and research teams work closely to ensure translational research that is driven by clinical imperatives, and which improves the management of high burden neurosurgical conditions. Our Neurosurgery Consultants hold numerous international leadership positions and are regular contributors to international consensus statements and treatment guidelines.