Thank you to all who were able to join this year’s Annual Conference on 22-23 November at the Harrogate Convention Centre.
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Speakers at this year’s conference included:
- Welcome and update – Shereen Fisher, UNICEF UK Baby Friendly Initiative Programme Director
- The 9 stages of preterm infants: connecting the dots between full term and preterm behaviours while in skin-to-skin – Dr Kajsa Brimdyr, Lead Ethnographic Researcher/Faculty Healthy Children Project’s Center for Breastfeeding
- A Collaborative Approach with Muslim Mums – Dr Sahira Dar, Portfolio GP / British Islamic Medical Association
- Ending Exploitative Marketing and Enabling Breastfeeding for All: The 2023 Lancet Breastfeeding Series – Dr Cecilia Tomori, Associate Professor and Director of Global Public Health and Community Health, Johns Hopkins School of Nursing and Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Johns Hopkins University
- Reflections on the past 45 years in the field of infant feeding: lessons for the future – Professor Mary Renfrew, University of Dundee
- ‘It’s OK to ask’ – Cultural Curiosity in Maternity – Teri Gavin-Jones, Senior Clinical Lead Maternity Suffolk and NE Essex LMNS
- How to support Autistic parents to meet their breastfeeding goals –Dr Aimee Grant, Senior Lecturer in Public Health / Wellcome Trust Career, Development Fellow, Swansea University
- Supporting Breastfeeding Families Through Quality Improvement Initiatives – Dr Nathan Nickel, Director of the Manitoba Centre for Health Policy, Associate Professor – Manitoba Centre for Health Policy, University of Manitoba
- Breastfeeding sick children in hospital: Exploring the experiences of mothers in UK paediatric wards – Lyndsey Hookway, Swansea University
- Final remarks – Anne Woods, UNICEF UK Baby Friendly Initiative Deputy Programme Director
To learn more about Baby Friendly conferences, visit our website here where you can watch and read a range of speaker talks and preview blogs from prior years.