The Institute has been recognized as I.R.C.C.S. since 10 December 1968. The I.R.C.C.S. Burlo Garofolo presents itself as a highly specialized hospital of national importance in the pediatric sector and in dealing with maternity and women’s health. It pursues research in the biomedical field and the organization of health services, innovation of assistance models and knowledge transfer. It provides highly qualified hospitalization and care services to minors, pregnant women, newly born women and women with gynaecological pathologies to Italian and foreign citizens. The research activity at Burlo Garofolo is conducted in the areas of reproductive health, maternal-fetal medicine, neonatology, genetically transmitted diseases and chronic and tumour diseases with onset in pediatric age, general and specialist pediatric surgery, anesthesiology pediatric, developmental neuroscience, gynaecology, and extends to the epidemiology of environmental, infectious and lifestyle factors relevant to the health of mothers, children and adolescents and operational research on health services. The research draws objectives and stimuli from clinical and epidemiological activity. It aims to transfer the product of new knowledge, new technologies and new care models to the entire regional and national health service and the international scientific community. This activity translates into more than a hundred publications annually in journals of the highest scientific prestige in their respective fields. The research product is also characterized by its potential to produce short and medium-term effects on the National Health Service.