Farhad is a physician-scientist with expertise in maternal and newborn health. He completed his undergraduate and Medical Scientist Training in Biochemistry at Stanford University, followed by residency and fellowship in Pediatrics and Neonatology at Harvard Medical School. He joined the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation in 2017 from the University of California, San Diego, where he was an Assistant Professor in Neonatology in the Department of Pediatrics. His laboratory’s focus on hypoxia neuroprotection was a synthesis of his basic scientific training in developmental biology, genetics, and genomics with his clinical work with critically ill and asphyxiated newborns. His research has been published in leading journals including Nature, Science and Cell, and encompasses both fundamental scientific and “bench-to-bedside” translational work. At the BMGF, he oversees a portfolio of projects centered upon fetal and newborn health, with a perspective toward developing novel diagnostics, therapeutics and devices to provide transformational improvements in health for mothers and infants worldwide.