Dr Ramdin is the Head of Neonatology and Paediatric Intensive Care Unit at Charlotte Maxeke Johannesburg Academic Hospital, one of Southern Africa’s largest tertiary and academic hospitals, and is the coordinator of the National Neonatal Resuscitation program and has recently embarked on a joint neonatal resuscitation program with Zimbabwe. She is the co-chair of the international COVID-19 mother and child coalition group and a member of the national COVID-19 task team. She is also the coordinator of the African neonatal fellowship program.

Dr Ramdin completed her MBBCh at the University of the Witwatersrand in 2002, qualified as a Paediatrician in 2010 and as a Neonatologist in 2015 at the College of Medicine South Africa, and is currently developing her PhD proposal. She is involved in various research projects at Charlotte Maxeke, and is involved in many aspects of medical education through Wits University Medical School (which is adjacent to the hospital) and the College of Medicine South Africa; her tasks including supervising Masters of Medicine students, teaching undergraduate medical students, and examining both undergraduate and postgraduate students. She has published several papers on neurodevelopmental outcome and sepsis in preterm infants.

Dr Ramdin is currently and has for the last 6 years been part of an NGO assisting destitute countries requiring medical assistance.