The Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health announced on Tuesday the launch of “a groundbreaking new study called the Pneumonia Etiology Research for Child Health (PERCH) study … a large multi-country case-control study of severe pneumonia in hospitalized children under five years of age … being conducted in Bangladesh, The Gambia, Kenya, Mali, South Africa, Thailand, and Zambia,” according to a JHSPH press release. The study, “a collaboration between five African and two Asian research sites coordinated by the International Vaccine Access Center (IVAC) … will systematically look at current and likely future causes of childhood pneumonia in some of the world’s hardest hit populations,” the release states (8/16).