در ارتباط با اهميت شير مادر علاوه بر اينكه يك روز دنيا به روز جهاني شير مادر نسبت داده ميشود ، كتابهاي مرجع زيادي براي شير مادر در دنيا نوشته شده و عليرغم تحقيقات زياد هنوز اذعان دنيا مبني بر اين است كه عليرغم گستردگي تحقيقات و ارائه كتب متعدد هنوز بشر به جزء كوچكي از فوايد شيرمادر دست نيافته است . لذا همانطور كه در قرآن كريم ذكر شده يك كودك تا پايان دو سال بايد از شير مادر تغذيه شود.

Objectives:

• Developing and using science for neonatalogy
• Performing epidemiological and clinical fundamental researches with the goal of improving health care delivery system and meet the requirements of our society
• Data, documents banking and articles collections, processing and publication
• Educating neonatal medicine researchers
• Encouraging and employing researchers
• Finding and cooperating with national and international educational and research institutes

The strategy of neonatal research center:

The neonatal research center of Mashhad University of Medical Science (MUMS) has long- term and short-term strategies to keep the health level of newborn and and improve the science of neonatology.

Strategic programs:

• Introducing and improving NRC positions in the provincial, country and international levels
• Organizing, facilitating and creating neonatal research division for neonatalogy under Mashhad University of Medical Sciences (MUMS)
• Developing NRC subunits
• Prioritizing research areas based on the need assessment
• Encouraging and enabling researchers for performing research in neonatal field
• Mutual cooperation with industry to provide their research requirements and receiving financial aids for NRC
• Periodical evaluation of the NRC activities

Divisions:

1.  Kangaroo mother care
2.  Lead poisoning
3.  Mother's milk
4.  Micro nutrition
5.  Neonatal morality
6. Preterm
7. Icter & Hyperbilirubinemia