Gary Darmstadt

Dr. Gary L. Darmstadt, Senior Fellow, Global Development Program, provides strategic counsel on cross-program learning and integration opportunities that show promising impact and strategic importance, particularly involving women and girls. He joined the Global Health Program at the foundation as Senior Program Officer, Newborn Health in February of 2008, became Team Lead for Maternal, Neonatal and Child Health (MNCH) and Interim Deputy Director of Integrated Health Solutions Development in October 2008, and Director of the Family Health Division in January 2010.  He is also an active member of the Global Health India Team.

Darmstadt was formerly Associate Professor and Founding Director of the International Center for Advancing Neonatal Health in the Department of International Health at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. He has trained in Pediatrics at Johns Hopkins University, in Dermatology at Stanford University, and in Pediatric Infectious Disease as a fellow at the University of Washington, Seattle, where he was Assistant Professor in the Departments of Pediatrics and Medicine. Dr. Darmstadt left the University of Washington to serve as Senior Research Advisor for the Saving Newborn Lives program of Save the Children-US, where he led the development and implementation of the global research strategy for newborn health and survival, before joining Johns Hopkins.  

His training and experience spans from state-of-the-art basic laboratory discovery science in bacterial pathogenesis to field-based operations research in intervention development and delivery in low resource settings in developing countries. As a member of the Steering Committee of the Lancet Neonatal Survival Series, he was instrumental in identifying cost-effective interventions and feasible strategies for delivering these interventions in countries to avert newborn deaths. He has recently co-led reviews to synthesize the evidence and to develop strategies for implementation of interventions to address stillbirths and deaths during childbirth. Darmstadt has authored more than 250 original research and review articles, book chapters, clinical analyses, editorials and policy briefs. His research and program experience has focused on developing, testing and introducing innovative strategies for the prevention, detection and management of serious newborn illness, particularly infections, and improving family and community-based newborn and maternal care in low resource settings around the world. 

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