About Miriam H Labbok, MD, MPH, MMS, FACPM, FABM, IBCLC
Miriam is a Professor of the Practice of Public Health, and Director, Carolina Global Breastfeeding Institute (CBI): Nurturing our Future: Supporting the Mother/Child Dyad in Breastfeeding and Reproductive Health since January 2006. Her previous positions include: Senior Advisor for Infant and Young Child Feeding and Care, UNICEF HQ; Chief, Maternal Health and Nutrition Division, USAID; Associate Professor at Georgetown University Medical Center and Co-Director, Institute for Reproductive Health; Assistant Professor at Johns Hopkins School of Hygiene and Public Health, and Adjunct Associate Professor at Tulane.
Miriam is a graduate of the University of Pennsylvania with General Honors; the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey – Rutgers; Tulane University (where she studied under mentorship of Dr. Cicely Williams); Pediatrics at Georgetown University Medical Center; and Post-doc in epidemiology and Preventive Medicine Residency at Johns Hopkins. She has nearly 35 years of research and programme work on maternal/child dyad health and nutrition, and is known for the development of the Lactational Amenorrhea Method (LAM) for family planning, as the technical secretariat for the Innocenti Declaration meetings, definitions for breastfeeding, studies of health consequences of breastfeeding for the dyad; and for community health initiatives using operational and translational research approaches. Her work has been recognized with honors as varied as Distinguished Alumnus of all institutions of higher learning attended, the first Science and Technology Award from USAID, both student and distinguished Honoree of LLLI, faculty Delta Omega, and many others.
Miriam has worked in more than 50 countries, and has published more than 300 chapters, published articles, papers, and abstracts, and hundreds of invited lectures and seminars. She is pleased and honored to be able to apply her expertise at the home of the TarHeels, University of North Carolina, at the Gillings School of Global Public Health in the Department of MCH that exists to consider and support the global public health needs of every mother and every child.
Miriam is a graduate of the University of Pennsylvania with General Honors; the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey – Rutgers; Tulane University (where she studied under mentorship of Dr. Cicely Williams); Pediatrics at Georgetown University Medical Center; and Post-doc in epidemiology and Preventive Medicine Residency at Johns Hopkins. She has nearly 35 years of research and programme work on maternal/child dyad health and nutrition, and is known for the development of the Lactational Amenorrhea Method (LAM) for family planning, as the technical secretariat for the Innocenti Declaration meetings, definitions for breastfeeding, studies of health consequences of breastfeeding for the dyad; and for community health initiatives using operational and translational research approaches. Her work has been recognized with honors as varied as Distinguished Alumnus of all institutions of higher learning attended, the first Science and Technology Award from USAID, both student and distinguished Honoree of LLLI, faculty Delta Omega, and many others.
Miriam has worked in more than 50 countries, and has published more than 300 chapters, published articles, papers, and abstracts, and hundreds of invited lectures and seminars. She is pleased and honored to be able to apply her expertise at the home of the TarHeels, University of North Carolina, at the Gillings School of Global Public Health in the Department of MCH that exists to consider and support the global public health needs of every mother and every child.
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