This package includes the following 6 plenary sessions:
1. The Time Is Now: Why Partnering With Public Health is Crucial to Achieving First Food Equity
Breastfeeding/human milk feeding is a crucial public health issue, critical for reducing the burden of infant morbidity and mortality, childhood and adolescent overweight, obesity, chronic disease, maternal type 2 diabetes, and maternal breast and ovarian cancers. In this session, you’ll hear from representatives of the American Heart Association, Georgia Southern University, and the Minnesota Breastfeeding Coalition as they discuss how partnerships with the broader public health community can advance the First Food agenda.
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2. The Miseducation of the First Food Field
Colonization left a legacy infused in our everyday thinking and has intergenerationally impacted the First Food Field. How have systems of inequities created by harmful colonial practices been perpetuated today in lactation education, and what can we do to disrupt these practices? In this session, you'll hear from representatives of Lioness Lactation, Indigenous Breastfeeding Counselor, and The B.L.A.C.K. Course on how decolonizing lactation education plays a vital role in realizing the collective vision of all breastfeeding/ human milk feeding champions: thriving families and communities.
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3. Decolonizing Language: Exploring Intent and Impact
In this session, panelists will discuss the impact of language on breastfeeding/human milk feeding families and explore ways in which the First Food Field can move forward.
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- Casey Rosen-Carole (she/her/s): Academy of Breastfeeding Medicine
- Jordyn White: Human Rights Campaign
- Mari Villaluna: Lactating solo parent, Doula
4. Data Genocide: The Impact of Colonial Data Practices on Communities
This session will explore the impact of colonial practices on data collection and reporting.
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- Abigail Echo-Hawk: Urban Indian Health Institute, Seattle Indian Health Board, Executive Vice President, and Director
- Camie Jae Goldhammer: Indigenous Lactation Counselor, Founder, and co-Instructor, facilitates this discussion
5. Legal Protections for Working Parents: Where We Are and Where We're Going
The workplace policies that surround and shape our lives have a significant impact on breastfeeding rates. Laws and policies that provide family and medical leave and protect the right to reasonable accommodations for pregnancy and lactation are especially critical. This fireside conversation includes an esteemed panel of experts to share their perspectives on legal protections for parenting workers. A representative from the U.S. Department of Labor, Wage and Hour Division will describe the current legal landscape and how you can support public education and implementation efforts related to the Family and Medical Leave Act and the Break Time for Nursing Mothers law. The panel will also feature legal experts from A Better Balance and WorkLife Law to describe ongoing gaps in legal protections, current legislative proposals, and ways you can get involved. The panelists will share practical resources, including a toolkit featuring model policies, so that attendees are equipped with the information and tools they need to understand and strengthen support for working parents.
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6. Predatory Marketing of Breastmilk Substitutes: A Global Perspective from the World Health Organization
Presenters from the World Health Organization, Dr. Laurence M. Grummer-Strawn, Unit Head, Food and Nutrition Actions in Health Systems, and Dr. Nina Chad from the Department of Nutrition and Food Safety (NFS) Food and Nutrition Action in Health Systems (AHS), will present on the three recently released World Health Organization (WHO) reports focused on the predatory marketing of breastmilk substitutes globally. During this plenary session, the presenters will explore the deceptive, persistent, and prevalent marketing practices that influence mothers, and mothers-to-be, to use commercial infant formula.
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