David Edwards is a consultant neonatologist at the Evelina London Children's Hospital and Professor of Paediatrics & Neonatal Medicine at King's College London. He has studied the mechanisms of perinatal brain damage, working to reduce death and severe neurological impairment caused by: (a) birth asphyxia, which kills more children than malaria with the annual global loss of 50 million Disability-Adjusted Life Years (DALY); and (b) brain abnormalities associated with preterm birth, which annually causes 77 million lost DALY, the 8th highest of the 291 conditions assessed by the 2010 Global Burden of Disease Study.