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Thomas Hale, R.Ph., Ph.D. is Professor of Pediatrics at Texas Tech University School of Medicine, Associate Dean of Research, and Director of the InfantRisk Center. Dr. Hale is the author of 5 books, numerous chapters and individual research papers in the field of human lactation primarily dealing with use of medications in breastfeeding mothers. Current topics of investigation include:

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.

Nancy Wight MD, IBCLC, FABM, FAAP is a board-certified Neonatologist, and Medical Director of Lactation Services for Sharp HealthCare, San Diego, CA. She gained her MD and did her training in Pediatrics at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. She completed her fellowships in Neonatal-Perinatal Medicine and ECMO at the University of California San Diego Medical Center.

Marsha Walker is a registered nurse and International Board Certified Lactation Consultant. She has been assisting breastfeeding families in hospital, clinic, and home settings since 1976. Marsha is the executive director of the National Alliance for Breastfeeding Advocacy: Research, Education, and Legal Branch (NABA REAL). As such, she advocates for breastfeeding at the state and federal levels.

Laurie A. Nommsen-Rivers, PhD, RD, IBCLC, is a Research Assistant Professor in the Division of Neonatology, Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center. Her role at Cincinnati Children’s is to contribute to the development of a multi-disciplinary research program in human milk and lactation. Her current area of research focuses on identifying barriers that impede mothers in meeting their breastfeeding goals and developing effective interventions for overcoming these barriers.

Laurence Grummer-Strawn is a technical officer at the World Health Organization, coordinating work on infant and young child feeding. Until December 2014, he served as chief of the Nutrition Branch at the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). Having earned his PhD from Princeton University, he worked at CDC for over 23 years, in the areas of Reproductive Health and Nutrition. He is an epidemiologist who has published over 150 scientific publications.

Laura N. Haiek, MD, MSc is a family physician working at Québec’s Ministère de la Santé et des Services sociaux and McGill University’s St. Mary’s Hospital in Montréal, Québec, Canada. She is also a part-time Assistant Professor of Family Medicine at McGill University. Dr.

Leena Hannula, PhD, MNSc, RM, RN is a Researcher and Senior Lecturer at Helsinki Metropolia University of Applied Sciences, in Finland. She is a assigned member of The National follow-up group for breastfeeding promotion in Finland at the Finnish National Institute for Health and Welfare. Dr.

Peter Hartmann B Rur Sc, PhD, is a Winthrop Professor, School of Biomedical, Biomolecular and Chemical Sciences, The University of Western Australia. He has supervised 48 completed PhD students and received the Macy-Gyorgy award from ISRHML in 2006, the Rank Prize for Nutrition in the UK in 2010. He is a Fellow of Nutrition Society of Australia, current President of ISRHML and a Visiting Professor, Kagawa Nutrition University, Sakado, Japan.

Dr. Suzanne Haynes has held several key breastfeeding leadership roles at the request of the Assistant Secretary of Health during her tenure as the Senior Science Advisor for the Office on Women’s Health (OWH) in the Department of Health and Human Services. She chaired the HHS Blueprint for Action on Breastfeeding Committee between 1998-2000, which produced the Department’s first comprehensive policy on breastfeeding.

Kerstin Hedberg Nyqvist, RN, MNSc, PhD, is an Associate Professor of Pediatric Nursing emerita at Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden. Kerstin Hedberg Nyqvist gained her undergraduate and doctoral degrees from Uppsala University, Sweden. She is a certified NIDCAP observer, and has been an International Board Certified Lactation Consultant.

M. Jane Heinig, PhD, IBCLC, is a researcher and an academic administrator in the Department of Nutrition at the University of California, Davis; the executive director of the UC Davis Human Lactation Center; and is a previous editor-in-chief of the Journal of Human Lactation.