Conference 2021: Accelerating the Achievement of Global Breastfeeding Targets (E-CERP)

Accelerating the Achievement of Global Breastfeeding Targets (E-CERP)

Overview:

Dr. Francesco Branca, MD, PhD, Director of the Department of Nutrition for Health & Development in the World Health Organization in Geneva, discusses new challenges on the protection from marketing infant formula and how to make health facilities more conducive to breastfeeding.

Upon completion, the learner will be able to:

1. Identify new challenges on the protection from marketing infant formula

2. Explain the global importance and status of breastfeeding

3. Discuss how to make health facilities more conducive to breastfeeding

Credit: 1.00 E CERPs and 1.00 Contact Hours

Source: ILCA Conference - 1-2 September 2021 (Houston, Texas, US)

Presented by: Francesco Branca, MD, PhD, World Health Organization

Learning Level: Beginner, Intermediate, Advanced

Expiration Date: 31 July 2024

Disclosures: ILCA accepts no commercial support for continuing education activities. The activity planners have no conflicts of interest to declare. The presenter has no significant financial interest or other relationship with the manufacturer(s) of any product(s) or provider(s) of any services relating to the subject matter of this presentation unless otherwise stated in the presentation.

CERPs: ILCA is an approved provider of Continuing Education Recognition Points (CERPs) with the International Board of Lactation Consultant Examiners (IBLCE). (CLT-108-7).

ANCC: ILCA is accredited as a provider of nursing continuing professional development by the American Nurses Credentialing Center’s Commission on Accreditation. Approval Number ILCA-P0286. Accepted for BRN credit by the Board of Registered Nursing.

Francesco Branca, MD, PhD

World Health Organization

Dr Francesco Branca is the Director of the Department of Nutrition for Health and Development in the World Health Organization, Geneva. During his tenure, WHO has established a new nutrition guideline development process and has developed a Comprehensive Implementation Plan on Maternal, Infant and Young Child Nutrition with six global targets. He has been leading the preparation of the 2nd International Conference on Nutrition. He has been a Senior Scientist at the Italian Food and Nutrition research Institute where he was leading studies on the effects of food and nutrients on human health at the different stages of the life cycle and on the impact of public health nutrition programmes. He has been President of the Federation of the European Nutrition Societies in 2003-2007. Dr. Branca graduated in Medicine and Surgery and specialized in Diabetology and Metabolic Diseases at the Universita' Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Roma and obtained a PhD in Nutrition at Aberdeen University.

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