Women's Health Grand Rounds

UNICEF/WHO Baby-friendly Hospital Initiative

Thursday, August 3, 2006, 7:30 a.m - 9:30 a.m. ET

Speakers:

Miriam H. Labbok, MD, MPH, professor of the Practice of Public Health and director, Center for Infant & Young Child Feeding & Care, Department of Maternal and Child Health, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and formerly senior advisor on infant feeding at UNICEF

Ruth Lawrence, MD, professor of Pediatrics and Obstetrics & Gynecology, University of Rochester School of Medicine & Dentistry, and author of "Breastfeeding: A Guide for the Medical Profession"

Moderator: Mary Applegate, MD, MPH

This program will introduce participants to the UNICEF Baby Friendly Hospital Initiative, an international effort to improve breastfeeding support practices in hospitals. Through case studies involving three hospitals/hospital systems in upstate New York and in New York City, Drs. Labbok, Lawrence and Applegate will present the challenges of achieving Baby Friendly status in U.S. hospitals and describe how hospitals can address those challenges.

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Major support for this program comes from the NYS Department of Health and the USDHHS Maternal and Child Health Bureau.

To receive Continuing Education Credits individuals must fill out the Post-Test and Evaluation online. Continuing Education Credits for Dieticians are available. CERPs can be applied for from IBLCE.

The University at Albany School of Public Health is an approved provider of continuing education by the New York State Nurses Association’s Council on Continuing Education, which is accreditedas an approver of continuing education in nursing by the American Nurses’ Credentialing Center’s Commission on Accreditation. This program has been approved for 2.4 contact hours and has been assigned approval code 5TLL8T-PRV-04-088 .

The School of Public Health, University at Albany, SUNY, is accredited by the MSSNY to provide continuing medical education (CME) for physicians. The School designates this educational activity for 2.0 AMA PRA Category One Credit(s)^TM. Physicians should only claim credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the educational activity.

This activity is sponsored by the School of Public Health, University at Albany, SUNY, a designated provider of continuing education contact hours (CECH) in health education by the National Commission for Health Education Credentialing, Inc. This program is designated for the CHES to receive 2.0 Category 1 CECH in health education.