7th Breastfeeding and Feminism Conference (Save the Date and Call for Papers)

Save the Date -- Call for Papers

Considering Women in Advancing the Surgeon General’s Call to Action 

7^th Breastfeeding and Feminism Conference

March 29-30, 2012         Greensboro, NC

In 2010 The US Surgeon General issued a Call to Action to Support Breastfeeding. Surgeon General Regina Benjamin writes that she issued this call “because the time has come to set forth the important roles and responsibilities of clinicians, employers, communities, researchers, and government leaders and to urge us all to take on a commitment to enable mothers to meet their personal goals for breastfeeding”.  This call to action sets forth 6 areas for action.  This Call to Action addresses issues similar to those put forward by the European Union Blueprint for Breastfeeding. 

We are interested in papers that describe research, practice, policy, programming, and advocacy that protect, promote, and support the breastfeeding dyad, breastfeeding mothers, and related women’s issues, in six key areas for action: 

1. Mothers and Families
2. Communities
3. Health care
4. Employment
5. Research and Surveillance
6. Public health infrastructure

Ideally we are interested in presentations that discuss the ways in which we can implement programs, policies, research or other actions that engage women, empower women, build upon and value women’s knowledge and experiences, and keep women’s needs and gender issues at the forefront as we advance the call to action.

Instructions for Submission

Please submit an abstract for review and consideration that is related to the above.  The submission should include the following:

1)     Your name, affiliation, contact information including email and phone number;

2)     An indication of which of the six topic areas your paper addresses;

3)     An abstract, up to 300 words, that includes at least “purpose”, “ methods”, and “general findings”

4)     Whether you prefer to give a 15-minute paper presentation, a poster presentation, or either.

Send your abstracts as a word document, attached to an email to Thea Calhoun-Smith at tcalhoun@unc.edu, with the subject line stating: 1) “BFF Conference,” and, 2) the selected “key areas for action” from the list, above, that is addressed.  

Please submit by November 30, 2011.

For more information contact Paige Hall Smith at phsmith@uncg.edu

www.uncg.edu/hhs/cwhw   and  http://cgbi.sph.unc.edu/