Dr. Nils Bergman, MD, MPH, PhD, embodied passion starts with “skin-to-skin” contact of mother and baby. He is from South Africa, where he qualified in Cape Town, then worked as a Manama Mission doctor in Zimbabwe. With midwife Agneta Jurisoo, he developed and implemented Kangaroo Mother Care (KMC) for premature babies. Since then, the ongoing research has been presented as keynote lectures at conferences in six continents. He has a diploma in Child Health, a Masters in Public Health, and a PhD in Clinical Pharmacology. For over six years, Dr. Bergman was Senior Medical Superintendent of the Mowbray Maternity Hospital (7,000 babies per year) and five Midwife Obstetric Units (11,000 babies per year). He worked in Cape Town as a Consulting Public Health Physician and is an Honorary Research Associate at the Karolinska Institute in Stockholm, Sweden. He is currently doing Gates Foundation research in five countries on the benefits of mother-baby skin-to-skin contact, especially with premature infants. His special interest is Perinatal Neuroscience. In 2023, his decades-long research changed the early infant care guidelines of the World Health Organization (WHO). Dr. Bergman's credentials includes MB ChB, DCH, MPH, and he is a MD Public Health Physician. With the BirthWorks team, him and his wife Jill Bergman, offer Newborn Care Specialist trainings including Registered Kangaroula, Certified Kangaroula, and specific trainings for hospitals and NICUS, including offering Grand Rounds to share the research and value of Kangaroula care.
Dr. Nils Bergman
Dr. Nils Bergman, MD, MPH, PhD, embodied passion starts with “skin-to-skin” contact of mother and baby. He is from South Africa, where he qualified in Cape Town, then worked as a Manama Mission doctor in Zimbabwe. With midwife Agneta Jurisoo, he developed and implemented Kangaroo Mother Care (KMC) for premature babies. Since then, the ongoing research has been presented as keynote lectures at conferences in six continents. He has a diploma in Child Health, a Masters in Public Health, and a PhD in Clinical Pharmacology. For over six years, Dr. Bergman was Senior Medical Superintendent of the Mowbray Maternity Hospital (7,000 babies per year) and five Midwife Obstetric Units (11,000 babies per year). He worked in Cape Town as a Consulting Public Health Physician and is an Honorary Research Associate at the Karolinska Institute in Stockholm, Sweden. He is currently doing Gates Foundation research in five countries on the benefits of mother-baby skin-to-skin contact, especially with premature infants. His special interest is Perinatal Neuroscience. In 2023, his decades-long research changed the early infant care guidelines of the World Health Organization (WHO). Dr. Bergman’s credentials includes MB ChB, DCH, MPH, and he is a MD Public Health Physician. With the BirthWorks team, him and his wife Jill Bergman, offer Newborn Care Specialist trainings including Registered Kangaroula, Certified Kangaroula, and specific trainings for hospitals and NICUS, including offering Grand Rounds to share the research and value of Kangaroula care.
