The global revival of human milk banking: benefits for preterm infants, social impacts, and ongoing controversies

Join us for the Healthy Development Adelaide (HDA) and Women’s and Children’s Hospital Grand Round. 

In the past decade there has been a resurgence in milk banking, driven by increased recognition of the advantages of human milk for preterm infants. Drawing on local and international research, this presentation examines the benefits of donor human milk for preterm infants and current controversies including safety, access and the need to protect milk banks from commercial interests.

OUR SPEAKER

Professor Alice Rumbold is a perinatal epidemiologist and Leader of the Women and Kids Theme of the South Australian Health and Medical Research Institute (SAHMRI), located within the Women’s and Children’s Hospital. She is Director of the Centre of Research Excellence in Human Milk Nutrition for Preterm Infants, bringing together a multidisciplinary team of experts across Australia to optimise the use of human milk for preterm infants.

She has built and led internationally recognised research programs focussed on reducing adverse reproductive and perinatal health exposures and interventions to reduce the burden of prematurity, including promotion of human milk feeding.  Her research has been published in top-ranking journals such as the New England Journal of Medicine, Human Reproduction and the American Journal of Epidemiology.

OUR CHAIR

Rachael Yates (HDA Ambassador), Executive Director of Nursing and Midwifery, Women’s and Children’s Health Network.

This event will be held in person and livestreamed online via MS Teams. All registrants will receive the MS Teams link two days prior to the event.

This event is free and open to everyone to attend from researchers, clinicians, students, government and the community.