2023 Annual Conference

Speakers

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.