Dr. Robin Saggers

Robin Saggers is a South African clinician-researcher whose work spans neonatology, paediatric critical care, infectious diseases, and maternal medicine. Affiliated with leading academic hospitals in Johannesburg, Saggers contributes to research grounded in resource-limited settings, with a strong focus on improving outcomes for vulnerable mothers and infants.

Research centres on neonatal sepsis, antimicrobial resistance, candidaemia, necrotising enterocolitis, and outcomes of very low birth weight infants. Contributions to international collaborations such as the NeoOBS study highlight expertise in antibiotic stewardship, severity prediction models, and global health research addressing multidrug-resistant pathogens in low- and middle-income countries.

Additional scholarship explores COVID-19 in pregnancy and the protective role of physical activity and vaccination against severe disease. Across publications, Saggers demonstrates strengths in clinical epidemiology, pragmatic hospital-based research, and multidisciplinary care frameworks, advancing evidence-based practice in neonatal and maternal health.