The Baby Friendly Initiative | Conferences

Health Professionals

Last year's conference - 5 & 6 December, Cardiff

Thank you to everyone who attended last year's conference.

The following speaker's presentations are now available:

Sue Ashmore, Programme Director, UNICEF UK Baby Friendly Initiative - 'Review of the Baby Friendly Initiative'

Carol Bartle, Researcher and Co-ordinator of Canterbury Breastfeeding Advocacy Service, New Zealand - 'Tailored messages, misleading marketing practices, ethics, the International Code and ‘setting the record straight’' and 'Breastfeeding Behind Bars: Breaking the cycle of mothering loss and less than optimal infant feeding'

Gill Rapley, Independent researcher and author of Baby-led Weaning and Baby-led Breastfeeding - 'What does baby-led feeding really mean?'

Margot Sunderland, Director of Education and Training at the Centre for Child Mental Health - 'The Science of Parenting'

The Baby Friendly Initiative has been fortunate to have a number of eminent speakers giving presentations at its annual conferences. Every year we have tried to include speakers who offer practical guidance for implementing best practice standards as well as those presenting the latest research.

Details of past speakers and abstracts of their presentations can be accessed by clicking on the links below.