Associate Professor
University of Regina, Faculty of Nursing
Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada
Dr Shela Hirani is an Associate Professor at the University of Regina, Faculty of Nursing, Canada. She is a neonatal and child health nursing professional, academician, researcher, mentor, volunteer, and an International Board-Certified Lactation Consultant. Dr Hirani is actively involved in the promotion, protection, and support of breastfeeding in diverse settings, including disaster relief camps, mothers’ workplace setting, child daycare centre, hospitals, and post-secondary institutions in low-income, middle-income and high-income countries. She has established her program of research entitled Breastfeeding Advocacy Research: Program, Practices and Policies (BARPPP). Dr Hirani is actively involved in breastfeeding advocacy in diverse care settings and health promotion of vulnerable women and young children who are refugees, immigrants, internally displaced and homeless. In Canada, she is actively involved in advocating for safe spaces to remove breastfeeding barriers in a variety of public places like airports, shopping malls, restaurants, mothers’ workplace settings, child daycare centres, hospitals and post-secondary institutions.
I have no relevant financial relationship(s) with ineligible companies to disclose.
Friday, September 16, 2022
8:30 AM – 9:30 AM PDT