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Foteini Hassiotou completed a BSc in Biology at the Aristotle University of Greece, with First Class Honors in Microbiology. She then migrated to Perth, completing a PhD in 2009 in Plant Biology at the University of Western Australia (UWA). Shortly after, she started working at the Hartmann Human Lactation Research Group (UWA) on breast milk stem cells and commenced a second PhD on this subject, which she completed in 2012.

Jennifer N. Lind, PharmD, MPH, is an Epidemiologist in the Birth Defects Branch in the Division of Birth Defects and Developmental Disabilities at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). Dr. Lind’s current research is on safer medication use in pregnancy, identifying the causes of birth defects, and identifying opportunities to prevent them. Prior to joining the Birth Defects Branch, Dr.

Helen Ball is Professor of Anthropology, Director of Postgraduate Studies, Director of the Parent-Infant Sleep Lab, and Fellow of the Wolfson Research Institute at Durham University, UK. Professor Ball gained her masters (1987) and doctoral (1992) degrees from the University of Massachusetts (Amherst), and began her career as a primatologist, conducting field research in Puerto Rico.

GUIDO E. MORO, MD, is a paediatrician and neonatologist from the University of Milan, Italy. He has been the Director of the Centre for Infant Nutrition to Prevent Illnesses in Adult Life and Director of the Department of Neonatal Pathology of the Macedonio Melloni Maternity Hospital from January 2001 to December 2010.

Rebecca (Becky) is Lactation Center Coordinator at Oklahoma University Medical Center and also leads HCA Healthcare’s Corporate Lactation Consultant Workgroup.

Karen Wambach, PhD, RN, IBCLC is an Associate Professor of Nursing at the University of Kansas School of Nursing, and Consultant Editor: Qualitative Research of the Journal of Human Lactation. Dr. Wambach gained her BSN from the University of Minnesota, and Masters and PhD from the University of Arizona and has been an International Board Certified Lactation Consultant since 1997.

Erica Hesch Anstey received her PhD in public health from the University of South Florida in Tampa. She also has an MA in women’s studies and is a certified lactation counselor (CLC). Erica has long been interested in becoming a leader in Maternal and Child Health (MCH) and was an MCH Trainee (2011-2012).

Peter J. Burke is a professor in the Department of Sociology. One of the originators of Identity Theory, his research draws on Complexity Theory, Artificial Intelligence, and Computer Simulation to understand (1) how individuals, acting as agents with particular identities, come together in interaction to create larger aggregates, groups, organizations and societies, and (2) how these social structures constrain and limit the kinds of actions that individuals can take.