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DESCRIPTION:Title of Lecture: Human Rights and Breastfeeding:\nApplications
  of the International Code of Marketing of Breast-Milk\nSubstitutes\nIn re
 sponse to marketing practices of infant formula\nmanufacturers and the Int
 ernational Nestle Boycott of the 1970s\,\nthe World Health Assembly passed
  the International Code of\nMarketing of Breastmilk Substitutes in 1981. T
 his marked the\nbeginning of a decades’ long effort on the part of the\nin
 ternational community to promote breastfeeding world wide as a\nmeans to r
 educe infant mortality to and to improve maternal health.\nOther internati
 onal documents also speak to the importance of\ndeveloping national polici
 es that support and encourage\nbreastfeeding. In this presentation\, Profe
 ssor\nKedrowski will discuss the human rights applications of\nbreastfeedi
 ng policy\, and discuss how implementing and enforcing\nthe Code enables c
 ountries to protect the human rights of women and\nchildren especially.\nB
 iography:\nDr. Karen Kedrowski has been a member of the\nDepartment of Pol
 itical Science at Winthrop University since 1994\,\nand Chair since 2001. 
 She received her Ph.D. in Political Science\nfrom the Carl Albert Congress
 ional Studies Center at the University\nof Oklahoma in 1992\, and her BA i
 n Political Science\, French and\nHistory from the University of Minnesota
  in 1986. She conducts\nresearch primarily in the fields of congressional 
 communication and\npublic policy. Her interest in health policy specifical
 ly stems\nfrom her two years as a Health Policy Analyst for Families USA i
 n\nWashington\, DC. Dr. Kedrowski advises Political Science students\nwho 
 wish to earn Secondary Education Certification. Dr. Kedrowski\nis also the
  faculty advisor for the College Democrats and she was\nthe driving force 
 in re-establishing Winthrop University's chapter\nof Pi Gamma Mu\, the int
 ernational Social Science Honors Society\, in\n2005. Dr. Kedrowski has rec
 eived a number of honors and awards\,\nincluding being named Winthrop Univ
 ersity's Outstanding Junior\nProfessor (1999) and the College of Arts and 
 Sciences Outstanding\nAdvisor (2007).\n
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LOCATION:Charles Meredith House\, CA\, QC\, Montreal\, H3A 1A3\, 1130 avenu
 e des Pins Ouest
SUMMARY:Canada-U.S. Fulbright Lecture - Karen Kedrowski
URL:/channels/event/canada-us-fulbright-lecture-karen-
 kedrowski-114843
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