The doctors caring for Tanzania's children.
PAT is the professional home for paediatricians and child-health workers nationwide — CPD, mentorship, advocacy, and a community that spans every region.
To promote and enhance the practice, study, and advocacy of paediatrics and child health across Tanzania.
A Tanzania where every child thrives and reaches their full potential.
Three days in Mwanza, in pictures.
Paediatricians, researchers and policymakers from across the country gathered in Malaika Beach Resort, Mwanza for the 2026 PAT Scientific Conference. Here's how it went.
The biggest gathering in Tanzanian child health.
Clinicians, researchers, trainees and policymakers came together for plenaries, workshops, abstract sessions and the conversations that move practice forward — on the shore of Lake Victoria in Mwanza.
Four tracks. One purpose.
From the first breath to complex care — the science that changes outcomes for Tanzania's children.
Newborn & Neonatal
The fragile first days — survival, resuscitation, and the standard of newborn care.
Infectious Disease
Malaria, pneumonia, TB and the everyday threats to childhood across the region.
Nutrition & Growth
Stunting, wasting and the long shadow of early nutrition on a child's life.
Policy & Systems
Turning evidence into the guidelines and systems that reach every region.
The people leading PAT.
A community for everyone caring for children.
PAT is the professional home for paediatricians and child-health workers across Tanzania — CPD, mentorship, advocacy, and a network that spans all 31 regions.
From the floor.
Be part of the room.
PAT membership means CPD, mentorship, advocacy, and a standing seat at every future conference. Join the community shaping child health across Tanzania.