Gary L. Darmstadt

Dr. Gary L.
Darmstadt is a Director at Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.
He leads the Family Health Division, comprised of the Maternal, Neonatal and Child Health (MNCH), Family Planning and Nutrition Strategic Project Teams.
He joined the Global Health Program at the foundation as Senior Program Officer, Newborn Health in February of 2008 and became Team Lead for Maternal, Neonatal and Child Health (MNCH) and Interim Deputy Director of Integrated Health Solution Development in October 2008.
He is also an active member of the Global Health India Team.
Prior to joining Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, Dr. Darmstadt was an Assistant Professor at University of Washington.
He 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.
Dr. Darmstadt left the University of Washington to serve as Senior Research Advisor for the Saving Newborn Lives program of Save the Children-US, a Gates Foundation funded program, where he led the development and implementation of the global research strategy for newborn health and survival, before joining Johns Hopkins.