Sharla Rent, MD, MScGH, is a neonatologist at the Duke Children's Hospital and a global perinatal health researcher with a secondary appointment at the Duke Global Health Institute. She joined Duke in 2019, after completing her fellowship in Neonatal-Perinatal Medicine and the University of Michigan. Dr. Rent’s work focuses on neonatal resuscitation, perinatal bereavement, and supporting families in the US and abroad following perinatal loss. Dr. Rent also explores the ethical decision making around periviability, resuscitation practices, and neonatal care in low- and middle-income countries and works with global colleagues to build up ethical guidelines for perinatal care. She sits on leadership boards within the American Academy of Pediatrics focused on neonatal care, perinatal loss, and global health and is the Director of Research for Wax and Gold, inc., a non-profit organization focused on neonatal care in Ethiopia.