Microbes and Social Equity speaker series 2023
This series explores the way that microbes connect public policy, social disparities, and human health, as well as the ongoing research, education, policy, and innovation in this field.
I would like to thank the UMaine Institute of Medicine for their support for this series, and acknowledge the work of our MSE members helping to organize this: Emily Wissel, Katherine Daiy, Kieran O’Doherty, Hannah Holland-Moritz, Mallory Choudoir, and Mustafa Saifuddin. I would also like to recognize that the University of Maine is located on Marsh Island in the homeland of the Penobscot Nation.
This presentation is “Intersecting breastmilk and microbiome science
with the complexity of working with humans in a clinical context”, Dr.
Merilee Brockway.
Dr.
Brockway is a PhD prepared nurse and International Board-Certified Lactation
Consultant with expertise in
maternal-child health, infant feeding, and patient engagement. She completed my
PhD in nursing at the University of Calgary, examining maternal breastfeeding
self-efficacy and infant feeding outcomes in moderate and late preterm infants.
She also completed a three year post-doctoral fellowship at the University of
Manitoba in Dr. Meghan Azad’s THRIVE Discovery Lab, exploring clinical
applications of donor human milk for preterm infants. As an Assistant Professor
at the University of Calgary, her program of research examines the use of human
milk as a clinical intervention to mitigate early life perturbations to the
infant microbiome.
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