Healthy Children Project Center for Breastfeeding
In our third installment of 22 in 2022, we bring you 22 MORE Actions in 2022, because there is always work to do. 22 in 2022 was inspired by Life Kit’s 22 Tips for 2022, and we hope it provides inspiration for you to forge forward with this important work. Learn about the Girls’ Bill …
“Even in the harshest of trade regimes, there is space for public interest laws to meet legitimate health objectives when they are founded on internationally adopted standards and recommendations such as the Code and subsequent relevant WHA resolutions.”– WHO, 2016 All three of my kids sport a similar look when they lie. As soon as …
A friend of mine works in a healthcare building; her office, windowless. Stark white walls frame the shiny tiled floors in the also windowless laboratory that surrounds her office. Rectangular fluorescent lighting looms eerily overhead. Working in this space for the majority of her waking hours amounts to constant longing for sunshine and an overall …
Not long ago, when extreme weather occurred, we were told it wasn’t possible to link specific events to the climate crisis. Now though, scientists have figured out a model to represent how the climate crisis produces specific weather events like Hurricane Harvey and the extreme heat in the Pacific Northwest. We know that these extreme …
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Over 8,000 people registered for two live-streamed Marketing the $55 billion formula milk industry events last week where Director-General of the World Health Organization Dr. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) and partners presented the eagerly-anticipated release of a new report, How the marketing of formula milk influences our decisions on infant …
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