Conversation with Gabrielle Palmer, nutritionist and campaigner, and Belinda Reeve, a human rights lawyer.
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Gabrielle Palmer.
Gabrielle was a breastfeeding counsellor in the 1970s and helped establish the UK pressure group Baby Milk Action. In the early 1980s she lived and worked as a volunteer in Mozambique. She has written, taught and campaigned on infant feeding issues, particularly the unethical marketing of baby foods. In the 1990s she co-directed the International Breastfeeding: Practice and Policy course at The Institute of Child Health in London until she went to live in China for two years. She has worked independently for various health and development agencies, including serving as HIV and Infant Feeding Officer for UNICEF New York. She recently worked at The London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine where she had originally studied nutrition. She is a mother and a grandmother.
The Politics of Breastfeeding ISBN 978-1-905177-16-5 (paperback) published by Pinter & Martin
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Why the Politics of Breastfeeding Matter (Pinter & Martin Why It Matters Book 6) Kindle Edition
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2. Belinda Reeve is a human rights lawyer based in Sydney, Australia.
Belinda is a Lecturer at the University of Sydney Law School. Her research interests lie in public health law, with a particular focus on the intersections between law, regulation, and non-communicable disease prevention. Her current research explores the legal and regulatory options for creating a healthier food environment, including through product reformulation initiatives, restrictions on food advertising to children, and innovative measures at local government level. She was the co-convener of the inaugural 2016 Food Governance Conference at the University of Sydney, and is co-founder of the Food Governance Node at the Charles Perkins Centre, a platform for cross-disciplinary research on novel legal, regulatory and policy strategies to improve nutrition and diet-related health.
See her article here.
