Robert Goldenberg practiced high risk obstetrics for over 30 years. He has also served as Director of the Department of Maternal and Child Health for the Alabama Health Department. He is a member of the Institute Of Medicine and its Committee on Improving Birth Outcomes in Developing Countries. He has played leading roles in the March Of Dimes Prematurity Prevention Study; the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD) - funded study of risk factors for fetal growth retardation; the NICHD Preterm Prediction Study; the Agency for Health Care Policy and Research's Low Birthweight Patient Outcomes Research Team; the NICHD Maternal Fetal Medicine Network and the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Disease HIVNET 024 study of antibiotics to prevent infection - related Mother To Child Transmission of HIV.

He has directed the Office on Smoking in Pregnancy for the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. He is also Principal Investigator for the Pakistan site for the Gates/NICHD Global Network and chairs the National Institute of Health's Stillbirth Research Network and has just completed a term chairing the Section on Mother to Child Transmission of HIV for the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Disease-funded IMPAACT Network.

He was one of the founders of the Center for Infectious Disease Research in Zambia which now has 200,000 HIV-infected children and adults under antiviral treatment. He is currently chairing a NICHD Global Network multi-country study on Emergency Obstetric and Neonatal Care. He has consulted on pregnancy outcomes in Egypt, Columbia, Zambia, India and Armenia. He has published more than 500 journal articles. He also served on the steering committee for the recent 2011 Lancet Stillbirth Series and wrote the final paper in that series, "The call to Action".

Dr Jennifer F Culhane is an associate professor in the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology at Drexel University College of Medicine and of Epidemiology and Biostatistics at Drexel School of Public Health, in Philadelphia, Pa.

Dr. Culhane's research interests include the interaction of stress, infection and pregnancy outcomes. She is currently the principal investigator for multiple research grants from the National Institutes of Health and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, examining the causes of pre-term birth and particularly the associated racial and ethic disparities.

In addition to her work at Drexel University College of Medicine, she also holds a research position at the University of Pennsylvania.