• BDF Newlife is the UK’s leading child health and research charity
  
  
• BDF Newlife was founded in 1991 as the Birth Defects Foundation, by parents, doctors and business people dedicated to fighting what is now the biggest threat to child health
  
  
• We are known for our commitment, integrity, passion, creativity and compassion. And we’re known for being different
  

Some of the special people making the difference.

Sheila Brown OBE
Co-Founder and Chief Executive
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(Biography)

Professor Michael Patton
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Co-Founder and Medical Director