Steward:
Human Milk Banking Association of North America (Lindsay Groff, Becky Mannel)

Statements:

In May 2020, in response to the COVID-19 global pandemic, the Constellation released a Statement on Pasteurized Donor Human Milk & COVID-19. During the COVID-19 pandemic, breastfeeding and use of pasteurized donor human milk (PDHM) are more important than ever for maternal and infant health. Breastfeeding helps build and strengthen infants’ immune systems in addition to protecting them from numerous acute and chronic diseases and sudden infant death syndrome. Breastfeeding is also associated with numerous health benefits for mothers in the immediate postnatal period and across the life-course. Read the full statement here.

Constellation Current Planned Work:

• Create an action-oriented definition of donor milk access through an equity lens
• Draft and adopt a consensus statement on pasteurized donor human milk that promotes access to donor milk using an equity lens

Photo Credit: HMBANA

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Constellation Participants:​

• Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics
• Alaska Breastfeeding Coalition
• American Academy of Pediatrics
• American Breastfeeding Institute
• American College of Osteopathic Pediatricians
• American Public Health Association
• BreastfeedLA
• California Breastfeeding Coalition
• Carolina Global Breastfeeding Institute​
• Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

• Georgia Breastfeeding Coalition
• ​International Board of Lactation Consultant Examiners
• Human Milk Banking Association of North America
• Indiana Breastfeeding Coalition
• La Leche League USA
• Maryland Breastfeeding Coalition
• Global Military Lactation Community
  
• PATH
• Reaching Our Sisters Everywhere
• U.S. Breastfeeding Committee