Associate Professor & Director of Global Public Health & Community Health Johns Hopkins School of Nursing & Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health Ellicott City, Maryland, United States
This talk will address key lessons learned from the COVID-19 pandemic. First, we will explore the fragmented and siloed pandemic response across settings that has consistently overlooked maternal child health and perinatal health with devastating disruptions to lactation. Second, we will investigate the underlying historical and cultural roots of this fragmentation in colonial and neocolonial systems. Finally, we will embark on a new path for achieving an integrated and equitable response for this and future emergencies that places lactation at the center.
Learning Objectives:
Identify key threats to lactation during COVID-19 and their unequal impacts
Describe the root causes of the fragmented pandemic response
Collaborate with others to implement a more integrated, equitable emergency response that centers lactation