Breastfeeding Conferences proudly presents ‘Infant Feeding: In whose interest’?.
A two day conference in Melbourne and Online webinar.
This conference will bring together some of the world's most respected researchers and thinkers in the field of human lactation and public health.
Aims of this conference:
- Identify the role of the infant formula and baby food industries in undermining a breastfeeding culture and describe strategies to protect parents and health workers from their influence
- Raise awareness of potential conflicts of interest involving the baby food industry and how to avoid them
- Identify strategies in Australia and internationally which have been shown to support breastfeeding rates and increase breastfeeding initiation and duration
- Identify barriers to the lack of investment into breastfeeding support and promotion
- Explore the health and economic cost of sub-optimal breastfeeding.
- Promote policy, social and economic environments that enable parents and caregivers to make well informed infant and young child feeding decisions
Twenty percent of profits from the conference will be used to start a "Breastfeeding Innovation and Promotion Fund" to assist groups who have an innovative approach to supporting breastfeeding.
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Early Bird discounts availble when you register before 10 September 2017
Who should attend these seminars? These Seminars would benefit any healthcare professional
working with breastfeeding families, including:
• Lactation Consultants • Maternal and Child Health Nurses • Midwives • Paediatric Nurses • Dietitians
• Speech Therapists • Medical Doctors • Breasfeeding Counsellors • Community Educators • Allied Health Professionals
2 Day Conference
MELBOURNE ONLY
Day 1 Thursday 12 October 2017
Alison Stuebe - Reframing the right to breastfeed as a women's health imperative
Kimberly Seals Allers - Putting an End to THE BIG LETDOWN
Karen Campbell - Protein in infant formula: A link to obesity?
Jennifer Grayson - Beyond the Controversy: Restoring Human Milk as the Human Norm in the 21st Century
Rachel McDonald - The fine line between pleasure and pain: infant feeding in the workplace, laws and corporate lactation programs. The intersection of State, Corporate and Maternal interests.
Julie Smith - Economic perspectives on breastfeeding
Naomi Hull - The Australian National Breastfeeding Strategy (2010-2015)- The view from the coalface
Syed Aamir Raza Hussain - The story behind ‘TIGERS’
Maureen Minchin - Myths that matter: ignorance protects the norm
Day 2 Friday 13 October 2017
David Clark (via Skype) - conflict of interest in Infant and Young Child Feeding
- A formula for every purpose: How formula companies have tried to confuse regulators with new formulas
Peter Hartman - Ethics, research, research funding and the challenges ahead for lactology
Valérie Verhasselt - Mother-child interaction through breastfeeding: impact on immune development and education
Jennifer Grayson - Re-latching in the Modern World: What can we learn from traditional societies?
Kimberly Seals Allers - No mother left behind: Reducing racial disparities in breastfeeding rates
Alison Stuebe - In whose best interest? The ethics of autonomy, coercion and informed consent in infant feeding
Panel
Complimentary:
Registrations to attend the full conference in Melbourne will receive a complimentary registration to the online conference
ACCREDITATION:
IBLCE CERPs and MidPLUS points have been applied for.
Online Webinar
VIEW FROM
13 October - 31 December 2017
You can access all the great information, speakers and atmosphere of the conference right from your computer or mobile device by registering for our Online webinar. The Online webinar is a great option for those who are unable to attend in person and you will still earn your accreditation points.
Please note: the online seminar is not a public broadcast. Access is by registered login only.
ACCREDITATION:
IBLCE CERPs and MidPLUS points have been applied for.