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Meghan Azad, 2024 Gairdner Momentum Award Laureate

CBC Manitoba: Destigmatizing public breastfeeding for World Breastfeeding Week

August 8, 2025 — 

Dr. Meghan Azad, professor of pediatrics and child health at the University of Manitoba and director of Manitoba’s Interdisciplinary Lactation Centre spoke with CBC about some of the barriers parents who breastfeed face and how Canada compares to other countries around the world when it comes to the stigma surrounding public breastfeeding.

To listen to the entire conversation, please follow the link to CBC Manitoba

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