Overview This webinar will focus on how providing breastfeeding support and oral health improves maternal health throughout the life course and reduces inequities. At the end of this webinar, participants will be able to:
- Understand the importance of breastfeeding and discussing the importance of lactation support during COVID-19.
- Describe how population-based public health data can be leveraged to change clinical practices to improve maternal oral health.
- Learn about programs and resources that support breastfeeding and oral health. Audience Health and social services providers, lactation consultants, oral health providers, public health professionals, early childhood education programs, program and policy staff, community and faith -based organizations along with stakeholders addressing women and girls’ health issues
Speakers
Ifeyinwa V. Asiodu, PhD, RN, IBCLC
Assistant Professor
UCSF School of Nursing
Department of Family Health Care Nursing
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Dr. Ifeyinwa Asiodu is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Family Health Care Nursing at University of California, San Francisco School of Nursing. As a researcher, registered nurse and lactation consultant, her research is focused on the intersection of racism, systemic and structural barriers, life course perspective, and increasing access to human milk, breastfeeding resources, lactation support, and donor human milk. Dr. Asiodu uses a critical ethnographic lens to inform her work. She is also actively engaged in local, state and national breastfeeding, reproductive health, maternal and child health, and public health organizations geared toward achieving birth and breastfeeding equity. Dr. Asiodu received her BSN from the University of Southern California, MS and PhD from UCSF School of Nursing and completed postdoctoral work at the University of Illinois, at Chicago.
Hafsatou Diop, MD, MPH
Director, Office of Data Translation
Bureau of Family Health and Nutrition
Massachusetts Department of Public Health
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Dr. Hafsatou Diop is the Office of Data Translation Director at the Massachusetts Department of Public Health. She serves as the State Maternal and Child Health (MCH) Epidemiologist and the Pregnancy Risk Assessment Monitoring System (PRAMS) Program Director. Dr. Diop is also the Co-PI of the maternal mortality study in Massachusetts. She completed the 21st International Course of Epidemiology held at the Center for Research (INSERM) in Paris and did her field practicum at the Head Quarters of the World Health Organization in Geneva, Switzerland in 1996. She received her Master of Public Health with concentration in MCH in 2000 from the University of Hawaii at Manoa.
Contact Us
Susana Calderon, MPH
Regional Women's Health Analyst, Region 8
Office of the Assistant Secretary for Health
U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
(303) 844-7859
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