MAINN 2017
Nutrition and Nurture in Infancy and Childhood: Bio-Cultural Perspectives 2017
Important Dates
About MAINN 2017
The conference aims to: •Illuminate socio-cultural, political and economic influences upon infant and child feeding practices. •Explore the nature of relationships within families in connection with various types of nutritive and nurturing behaviour in infancy and childhood. •Increase understandings of breastfeeding as a bio-psychosocial activity. •Enhance understanding of the complex interactions between socio-cultural, psychological and biological factors in infant and child feeding, eating and nutrition. •Focus on key initiatives that may impact upon practices related to infant and child feeding, eating and nutrition.
Topics
Children and young adult literature, Early childhood, Eating disorders, Food and nutrition, Infancy, Bio-cultural, Breasfeeding, Child feedingCall for Papers
Keynote Speakers:
- Anna Axelin, Associate Professor, Department of Nursing Science, University of Turku, Finland.
- Nita Bhandari, Head of WHO Collaborating Centre for Research, Community Based Action and Programme Development in Child Health, Society for Applied Studies, India.
- Tanya Cassidy, Marie Skłodowska-Curie Fellow (EC funded), MAINN, UCLan, UK
- Stephan Dombrowski, Health Psychologist, University of Stirling, UK
- Suzanne Filteau, Professor of International Nutrition, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, UK.
- Rafael Perez-Escamilla, Professor of Epidemiology & Public Health, School of Public Health, Yale University, USA.
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