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Breastfeeding Summit:Reclaiming an African American Tradition

ROSE: Reaching Our Sisters Everywhere

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Atlanta, GA

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Mother and Child

  

Breastfeeding Summit 

Reclaiming an African American Tradition

July 19-20, 2012

Atlanta, GA

July 20th is invite only

 

Sponsored by

Reaching Our Sister Everywhere, Inc. (ROSE)

Morehouse School of Medicine

Satcher Leadership Institute

Office on Women’s Health, DHHS

 

You are invited to engage in an eye-opening experience, and become a part of the solution in addressing the issue of breastfeeding in the African American community.  Everyone from healthcare providers to community organizers is welcomed to attend!

  

Reaching Our Sisters Everywhere, Inc. (ROSE) has joined forces with Morehouse School of Medicine, Satcher Leadership Institute, U.S Department of Health and Human Services Office on Women’s Health, and several other breastfeeding support organizations, to put forth the 2012 Breastfeeding Summit: Reclaiming an African American Tradition of 2012. This summit will focus on the disparities in the African American community and methods that can be used to increase the rate of African American mothers who breastfeed nationwide.

 

Our presenters include:

Organizations Summit Faculty

African American Breastfeeding Network of Milwaukee,

Dalvery Blackwell

Black Mothers Breastfeeding Association, Michigan,

Kiddada Green

Indiana Black Breastfeeding Coalition,

Terry Jo Curtis

Institute for Patient-Centered Design, Inc.,

Tammy Thompson

MLP Communications,

Monica Ponder

Table for Two,

Sojourner Marable Grimmett

Tiny Babies Foundation Inc.,

Lovonia Nelson

Urban Mothers on the Move,

Ursula Arnold and Celeste McFadgen

David Satcher, MD: Morehouse School of Medicine

Michal Young, MD, Neonatologist: Howard University College of Medicine

Michael Lindsay, MD, High Risk OB: Emory School of Medicine

Jacqueline Grant, MD. OB/GYN: Georgia Department of Public Health

Yvonne Bronner, Sc.D, RD: Morgan State University

Acquana Stanford, Anthropologist

 


Prepare yourself for enriching presentations and panels of discussion from experts within the field!

 

Need a paper registration form? CLICK HERE, to download a copy!

Interested in becoming a sponsor? CLICK HERE, to download the Sponsorship Package!

Interested in doing a Poster Presentation? CLICK HERE, to download the submission form! 


 

 

Where



Morehouse School of Medicine
720 Westview Dr SW
Atlanta, GA 30310

Organizer

ROSE: Reaching Our Sisters Everywhere

Vision: To empower African American women to embrace breastfeeding as a cultural and social norm throughout US.

Mission: ROSE seeks to enhance the overall mental and physical health of African American women, babies, and their families by working collaboratively to encourage, promote, support and protect breastfeeding throughout the United States.

Values: ROSE seeks to enhance, encourage, support, promote, and protect breastfeeding throughout the USA, by working to reduce the breastfeeding disparities among African American women, and to strengthen the health of their babies and families through, mentoring, training, breastfeeding support groups, social support, outreach, education, legislation, health policies and social marketing.

http://www.breastfeedingrose.org/
 
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