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DAY 4 – Dual Pandemics: Impact of Systemic Racism and COVID-19 on Breastfeeding

January 6, 2021

DAY 4 PANEL 3: Dual Pandemics: Impact of Systemic Racism and COVID-19 on Breastfeeding District of Columbia Breastfeeding Coalition Speakers: Sahira Long, MD, IBCLC, FAAP, FABM; Ifeyinwa V. Asiodu, PhD, RN, IBCLC; Kimarie Bugg, DNP, RN, MPH, IBCLC; Chrisonne Henderson, CLC Description: Despite progress over the last decade improving breastfeeding rates, opportunities remain to close the gap between Black and white babies.

The COVID-19 pandemic has brought forth new challenges for breastfeeding and illuminated longstanding social determinants of health that effect what organizational and community supports are available to birthing people.

This panel will explain the influence of systemic and institutional racism on breastfeeding and discuss the additional burden COVID-19 presents. Theme(s): COVID-19, Prenatal/Postpartum Care, Racial Disparities

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This project was supported by the Preschool Development Grant Birth through Five Initiative (PDG B-5), Grant Number 90TP0045, from the Office of Child Care, Administration for Children and Families, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. Its contents are solely the responsibility of the authors and do not necessarily represent the official views of the Office of Child Care, the Administration for Children and Families, or the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.

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