The Lancet | Launch of The Lancet 2023 Series on Breastfeeding @TheLancetTV | Uploaded February 2023 | Updated October 2024, 28 seconds ago.
On the 8th February 2023, Richard Horton, Editor in Chief of The Lancet and a panel of experts unpack a new three-paper Lancet Series at the Royal Society of Medicine which explores how breastfeeding is undervalued by governments and wider society, and exploited by the formula milk industry.

Welcome
Ms Kathriona Deveraux, Moderator

Opening remarks
Mr Richard Horton, Editor-in-Chief The Lancet

Series highlights and overview
Professor Nigel Rollins, Maternal, Newborn, Child and Adolescent Health and Ageing, WHO
Professor David McCoy, International Institute for Global Health, United Nations University

Panel discussion with Q&A
Professor Helen L. Ball, Durham University
Ms Katie Gilbert, Managing Director M&C Saatchi World Services
Dr Guddi Singh, Paediatric doctor, health campaigner and TV broadcaster
Mrs Alison Thewliss, Member of Parliament for Glasgow Central

Closing remarks
Prof Anthony Costello, Institute for Child Health

Find the full The Lancet 2023 Series on Breastfeeding at:
thelancet.com/series/breastfeeding-2023