Abdul Rashid Gatrad

Dr Gatrad OBE is a professor of paediatrics and child health at the universities of Birmingham and Wolverhampton.  He was honoured by the Queen for halving the death rate of newborn babies. His special interests are transcultural paediatrics and sustainability. He holds a PhD in ‘differential growth’ in children from different ethnic backgrounds. He is a Senior Fellow of the Royal College of Paediatrics (UK) and has published over 80 papers in peer reviewed journal. The organisation he founded, WASUP – World Against Single Use Plastic is now global. He is member of the Planetary Health Alliance.