The end of 2015 has brought the end of WHOs Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) which have achieved a significant, though patchy improvement in global maternal and child health. The new-born health and stillbirths were not on the global agenda of MDGs. Hence, the global burden of neonatal and perinatal mortality remained largely unchanged. With the dawn of 2016, the world has entered into the new era of Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). The SDGs mandates all nations to reduce neonatal mortality rate to <12 per 1000 live births by 2030. Nations worldwide have committed to this in a major way. With this in mind, it is important to understand the current burden of global neonatal and perinatal mortality, as its risk factors and interventions required to reach the SDG target by 2030. This book on neonatal perinatal mortality provides a comprehensive and systematic review by panels of experts from well recognised institutions worldwide on the current status, determinants of neonatal perinatal deaths and the interventions needed to reduce these deaths worldwide. It is a must read for global health students and experts, paediatricians, neonatologists, perinatologists, obstetricians, public health professionals, health care strategists, health care funding agencies, government and non-government health care providers, academicians, researchers, nurses, midwives, community health care workers, medical students and medical academics.
Dr Sajjad ur Rahman has worked as Professor and Chairman Department of Pediatrics at Peshawar Medical College Peshawar Pakistan. He is currently working as Chairman Department of Pediatrics and Chairman of Research Center at North West Medical College Peshawar Pakistan. He worked as Senior Consultant Neonatal Perinatal Medicine and Neurodevelopmental Pediatrics in Hamad Medical Corporation and Associate Professor of Clinical Pediatrics at Weill Cornell Medical College in Doha State of Qatar from 2008 till 2015. He did his FCPS (Pediatrics) from Pakistan and FRCPCH from UK where he trained in Neonatology and neurodevelopmental Pediatrics. He did his Fellowship in Neonatal Perinatal Medicine from The Hospital for Sick Children University of Toronto Canada. He worked as Consultant Neonatologist in UK from 2001-2007. He worked as a co-researcher in many international MRCT's. He has special interest in Perinatal Epidemiology. He initiated and worked as Lead PI of Perinatal Neonatal Outcomes Research Study in the Arabian Gulf (PEARL Study) which developed Qatar's first national maternal, neonatal and perinatal database registry called Q-Peri-Reg. He has contributed a number of international publications and a book chapter on Neonatal Mortality and its correlates. He also has a special interest in Perinatal asphyxia, Hypoxic Ischemic Encephalopathy and Therapeutic Hypothermia. He worked as a co-researcher in TOBY trial and initiated and has been leading his own MRCT Magcool Study.
