This international interdisciplinary conference is being organised by the Maternal and Infant Nutrition and Nurture Unit (MAINN), University of Central Lancashire. MAINN is led by Fiona Dykes, Professor of Maternal and Infant Health
The conference aims to:
Illuminate socio-cultural, political and economic influences upon infant and child feeding practices.
Focus upon key strategic initiatives that may impact upon practices related to infant and child feeding, eating and nutrition.
Explore the nature of the relationship that is engendered between mother and child in connection with various types of nutritive and nurturing behaviour.
Increase understandings of breastfeeding as a bio-cultural activity.
Enhance understanding of the complex interactions between socio-cultural and biological factors in infant and child feeding, eating and nutrition.
Please go to www.uclan.ac.uk/health for more information
