Suzanne G. Haynes, PhD Department of Health and Human Services, Washington DC, USA

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. She served as Campaign Director for the first National Breastfeeding Awareness Campaign, a national, award winning, social marketing campaign sponsored by OWH and the Advertising Council between 2003-2006. Dr. Haynes commission AHRQ to conduct the well-cited Evidence Report No. 153 that was published in 2007 on Breastfeeding and Maternal and Infant Outcomes in Developed Countries. Joining forces with HRSA, Dr. Haynes has been promoting the Business Case for Breastfeeding through partnerships with 30 state breastfeeding coalitions and with the National Business Group on Health during the last four years. She was the Managing Editor of the newly released Surgeon General’s Call to Action to Support Breastfeeding in January, 2011. In recognition and appreciation of her tireless efforts to promote breastfeeding in the United States, Dr. Haynes received the Assistant Secretary for Health’s Award for Superior Service in June, 2010. Dr. Haynes received her Ph.D. in epidemiology at the University of North Carolina, has published over 80 books and articles in peer-reviewed journals.