Maternal Child Health and the Breastfeeding Landscape in Mexico
Student Nurses at Penn (SNAP) and the office of Global Health Affairs hosted a special Global Bites presentation featuring Marcela Arsuaga, MD and Diana Barrios Bautista, MD, two physicians from Mexico visiting Penn through Global Professional Education at the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP).
Drs. Arsuaga and Barrios are working with Penn Nursing Faculty, Diane L. Spatz, PhD, RN-BC, FAAN, Professor of Perinatal Nursing & The Helen M. Shearer Professor of Nutrition on the implementation of her 10 Steps to Promote and Protect Human Milk and Breastfeeding in Vulnerable Infants model program in Mexico.
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