ProfessorNeena Modi

Neena Modi is Professor of Neonatal Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, Imperial College London and Honorary Consultant in Neonatal Medicine at Chelsea and Westminster NHS Foundation Trust.

Neena is a Fellow of the Academy of Medical Sciences and served on Council from 2020-23. She leads a multidisciplinary Neonatal Medicine Research Group, and the National Neonatal Research Database, a UK Information Asset, at the Neonatal Data Analysis Unit, at Imperial. She is the lead for the "Pregnancy and Prematurity" theme of the Imperial National Institute for Health Research Biomedical Research Centre.

Neena has a national and international profile as a medical leader and clinical scientist. She is a past-president of the European Association for Perinatal Medicine, British Medical Association. UK Medical Women's Federation, and UK Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health. She has held by election, the three leading national children’s research positions in the UK, President of the Neonatal Society, President of the Academic Paediatrics Association of Great Britain and Ireland, and Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health Vice-President for Science and Research. 

Neena chaired the British Medical Journal Ethics Committee for five years and serves currently on a number of research committees and working groups. She is the current chair of the Scientific Committee of the International Paediatric Association. Her contributions have included national reports on children’s biomedical research and child health in the UK, and campaigning in relation to UK health services, environmental issues and child refugees. She led the establishment of a Child Health Research Collaboration and Children's Research Fellowship Fund. She is a trustee of the charities Theirworld and Action Cerebral Palsy. She is an advocate for child health and well-being, and youth enfranchisement, and a campaigner for the retention of the National Health Service as a primarily publicly funded, publicly delivered healthcare system.

From 2025, Neena has also held a position as Distinguished Principal Scientist at the Institute for Human Development and Potential, Agency for Science, Technology, and Research, Singapore, with honorary appointments at the National University of Singapore, National Technical University, and Lee Kong Chian and Yong Loo Lee Medical Schools.

Website: https://www.imperial.ac.uk/neonatal-data-analysis-unit/neonatal-data-analysis-unit/

Wikipedia:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neena_Modi