The overall goal of OCHRC is to improve child health and nutrition of world's children through appropriately targeted research. Since 2001, OCHRC is working to promote priority, resource sensitive and context specific researches that address the ever growing burden of childhood diseases in the developing countries.
OCHRC pursues this objective by conducting priority setting exercises, funding appropriately targeted research and providing a platform for communication through the mapping exercise. OCHRC has three major activities. Brief descriptions of the activities are: