Gary L. Darmstadt

Gary L. Darmstadt is Associate Dean for Maternal and Child Health and Professor and Co-Director of Global Pediatric Research in the Department of Pediatrics at the Stanford University School of Medicine. He serves on the World Health Organization (WHO) Strategic and Technical Advisory Group of Experts (STAGE) on Maternal, Newborn, Child, Adolescent Health, and Nutrition; is co-chair of the WHO-STAGE Kangaroo Mother Care Working Group; and was co-chair of the WHO Guideline Development Group on the Care of Preterm or Low Birthweight Infants. 

Previously, Dr. Darmstadt was Senior Fellow for Women and Girls and Director of Family Health at the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation; Associate Professor and Founding Director of the International Center for Maternal and Newborn Health in the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health; and Senior Research Advisor for the Saving Newborn Lives program of Save the Children.