St. Jude Walk/Run is a nationwide 5K hybrid event, taking place in person and virtually. Participants come together during Childhood Cancer Awareness Month to help support the lifesaving mission of St. Jude: Finding cures. Saving children®.
Learn more about why St. Jude matters to your community.

Art inspired by St. Jude patient Violett

When is Childhood Cancer Awareness Month?

Get involved as a volunteer for the St. Jude Walk/Run. From joining your local event committee to volunteering the day of the event, there are plenty of opportunities to support the St. Jude Walk/Run with your unique talents.

St. Jude Walk/Run offers companies meaningful experiences to enhance employee team building nationwide. With both virtual and in-person options, companies can demonstrate that even when we are apart, people can still come together to make a difference in the lives of children at St. Jude.

St. Jude Walk/Run participants (2019)
See our virtual St. Jude Walk/Run 5K information and register as an individual or join, or start, a team.


See the cities where the in-person St. Jude Walk/Run took place in 2022.


St. Jude freely shares research
St. Jude shares the breakthroughs it makes, and every child saved at St. Jude means doctors and scientists worldwide can use that knowledge to save thousands more children.

We won't stop.™
Treatments invented at St. Jude have helped push the overall childhood cancer survival rate from 20% to more than 80% since it opened in 1962. And we won't stop until no child dies from cancer.

Families never receive a bill
No matter what, families never receive a bill from St. Jude for treatment, travel, housing or food.