11th Nordic
Breastfeeding Conference
25-26 September
Uppsala, Sweden
2025
Speakers
We are happy to announce the following keynote speakers for the conference:
Kajsa Brimdyr
Dr Kajsa Brimdyr, PhD, CLC, is an experienced ethnographer, researcher and international expert in the implementation of continuous, uninterrupted skin-to-skin contact in the first hour after birth. She is the Lead Ethnographic Researcher for Healthy Children Project, a US based non-profit agency (NGO).
She is a published author of numerous peer-reviewed articles, including the 2023 International Guideline for skin-to-skin contact immediately after birth and the award-winning director of The Magical Hour: Holding Your Baby for the First Hour After Birth, produced with Ann-Marie Widström and Kristin Svensson. Together the three also created and produced the groundbreaking DVD Skin-to-Skin in the First Hour after Birth: Practical Advice for Staff after Vaginal and Cesarean Birth.
Her current research involves using video ethnography to change practice in hospital settings throughout the globe to improve continuous skin-to-skin for the first hour after cesarean and vaginal births, and the implications of labor medications on this vulnerable time.
Rafael Pérez-Escamilla
Dr Rafael Pérez-Escamilla, PhD is a tenured professor of Public Health in the Department of Social and Behavioral Sciences and Director of the Office of Public Health Practice, the Global Health Concentration, and the Maternal Child Health Promotion program at the Yale School of Public Health.
He has over three decades of experience co-designing, implementing, and evaluating policies and programs in the areas of maternal, infant, and young child nutrition and nurturing care for early childhood development.
He has published over 360 peer reviewed research articles, and he was co-executive director and coauthor of both the 2023 Lancet Breastfeeding Series and the 2016 Lancet Early Childhood Development Series.
He was elected to the US National Academy of Medicine in 2019.
Dr Pérez-Escamilla will give his keynote lecture digitally.
Amal Omer-Salim
Dr Amal Omer-Salim is the Executive Director of the World Alliance for Breastfeeding Action (WABA).
She is currently based in Sweden and works with a breastfeeding project in the region of Stockholm. Amal is a nutritionist with a PhD from Uppsala University, Sweden. Her areas of expertise are nutrition, breastfeeding, international health, gender, programme planning, results-based monitoring, research, and advocacy.
She has worked with several UN agencies, bilateral donor agencies, civil society organisations, trade unions and academic institutions globally on a range of issues such as maternal/child health, nutrition, and reproductive health.
Susanne Åhlund
Susanne Åhlund holds the position of Chief Midwifery Officer of Sweden since 2023.
In her current capacity, Susanne Åhlund is responsible to provide expert midwifery advice to government, the wider health system and regulatory and professional bodies and to contribute to the national health policy development and implementation, ensuring enhanced healthcare services for women, newborns and their families, both nationally and globally. She has worked as a midwife and held senior positions in clinical practice, education, leadership and management. Academically, Susanne holds a PhD in Medical Science.
Contact
Academic Conferences - administration of NBC2025
Phone: +46 18 67 1533 or +46 18 67 10 03
E-mail: nbc2025@akademikonferens.se
Important dates
Submission of abstracts is open
Abstract submission deadline 27 February, 9 April, 2025
Registration is open
Early bird registration deadline 25 June, 2025
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