The Baby Friendly Initiative | Conferences

Health Professionals

Last year's conference - 24 and 25 November 2011, Liverpool

Thank you to everyone who attended last year's conference.

You can view pictures from Liverpool here.

The following speaker's presentations are now available:

Robin Balbernie, Consultant Child Psychotherapist, Gloucestershire Children & Adolescent Mental Health Services – 'Circuits and circumstances: The influence of early relationships on brain development'

John Carnochan, QPM FFPH, Director, Scottish Violence Reduction Unit – 'David’s story: Born to fail – The perfect storm'

Emilia Del Bono, Senior Research Fellow, Institute of Social and Economic Research – 'Does the Baby Friendly Initiative work in the UK?'

Julianne Harlow, Senior Lecturer, University of Bolton; Alison Healey, Breastfeeding Coordinator, NHS Ashton, Leigh and Wigan; Florence May Ingham, Student Health Visitor – 'Gaining Baby Friendly accreditation for a specialist community public health nursing (health visiting) programme'

Sue Henry RM, Dip HE, East Lancashire Hospitals NHS and NHS Blackburn with Darwen; Carmel Duffy, Deputy Programme Director, UNICEF UK Baby Friendly Initiative – 'Listening and Learning to move Baby Friendly forward'

Pat Hoddinot, Senior Clinical Research Fellow and General Practitioner, University of Aberdeen – 'What would make a difference? Women's and families' experiences of establishing breastfeeding'

Janette Westman, Infant Feeding Lead, Bradford Royal Infirmary and Helen Ball, Professor of Anthropology and Director, Parent-Infant Sleep Lab, Durham University – 'Ethnicity, breastfeeding and sleep: Results of the Bradford Infant Care Study (BradICS)'

The Baby Friendly Initiative has been fortunate to have a number of eminent speakers giving presentations at its annual conferences. Every year we have tried to include speakers who offer practical guidance for implementing best practice standards as well as those presenting the latest research.

Details of past speakers and abstracts of their presentations can be accessed by clicking on the links below.