Miriam H. Labbok, MD, MPH, IBCLC, FACPM, FABM, FILCA Carolina Global Breastfeeding Institute, Department of Maternal and Child Health, Gillings School of Global Public Health, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, USA

Miriam Labbok is the Carolina Global Breastfeeding Institute (CGBI) Professor and CGBI Director, and also serves on the editorial boards of Breastfeeding Medicine and International Journal of Breastfeeding, and is a reviewer for many other journals. She founded the Mary Rose Tully Training Initiative, offering Pathway II training as part of a graduate degree. She served as the senior advisor for Infant and Young Child Feeding and Care for UNICEF; Chief of Maternal Health and Nutrition at USAID; associate professor and Director of Breastfeeding of the Institute for Reproductive Health, Georgetown University; and Assistant Professor in Population Dynamics at the Johns Hopkins School of Public Health. A pediatric epidemiologist, she trained at UPenn, Rutgers, Tulane and Hopkins. With more than 100 articles in refereed journals, more than 40 chapters and edited books, dozens of monographs, and hundreds of scientific presentations; her research, teaching and service are dedicated to operational research and translation of research evidence into well evaluated service and social change activities. Her research interests include fertility aspects of breastfeeding and the Lactational Amenorrhea Method; reducing barriers to breastfeeding success especially among women of low SES and racial minorities; the Expanded Ten Steps, including hospital, practice and childcare interventions; and prenatal and interconceptional reproductive health. She also has published on issues of rights, guilt, justice, family planning, and domestic and global trends.