These are some of our favourite scientific and popular resources related to topics of interest in the Azad Lab.
The "Tree of Life Images" above are used with permission from: keeponboobin, mirandamacneil, mel.styles2108, RubyPhan.

Popular Articles:​

The Washington Post - Why scientists are working to unlock these five puzzles about mother's milk
The Guardian - The human microbiome: why our microbes could be key to our health
The Washington Post - Why do we understand so little about breast-feeding?
National Geographic - How Breast Milk Engineers a Baby's Gut (and Gut Microbes)
The Stranger - The More I Learn About Breast Milk, the More Amazed I Am
The New Yorker - Breast Feeding the Microbiome
International Milk Genomics Consortium - Relationship Between Breastfeeding & Allergies: It's Complicated
The Conversation - Does breastfeeding really belong on the school curriculum?
The New York Times - Breast Milk is Teeming With Bacteria - That's Good for the Baby

Websites:

The Milk Mob
​WIC Works
​WABA World Breastfeeding Week
World Health Organization (WHO)​
Public Health Agency of Canada (PHAC)
1000 Days - Global Breastfeeding Collective
Human Milk - Tailor Made for Tiny Humans
Parenting Science Gang - Breastmilk composition and child health

Research:

Breastfeeding Series in the Lancet 2016
UC SanDiego - Mother-Milk-Infant Center of Research Excellence
​The International Society for Research in Human Milk and Lactation 
​DOHaD Society - International Society for Developmental Origins of Health and Disease

Breastfeeding Training Modules by Dr. Catherine Pound:

Module 1 - Feeding Difficulties
Module 2 - Tongue Tie
Module 3 - Breastfeeding for Babies with Jaundice

Videos:

Introducing The Human Gut Microbiome
TED Talk - What we don't know about mother's milk?
​How you can help support a breastfeeding mom
The Baby-Friendly Initiative: Strengthening Indigenous Families and Communities 
​The CHILD Study - discovering root causes of allergies, asthma and chronic disease
The CHILD Cohort Study and a baby’s microbiome​
Droplet - First milk matters most

Breastfeeding Education Toolkits:

Alabama Department of Public Health (Grades K-12): click here to download
Ontario Public Health Association (Grades 9-12): click here download / (available in French)
Leicestershire Healthy Schools (Grades 9-12): click here download
Marion County of Public Health Department (Grades 9-12): click here to download
Breastfeeding More Than Milk (Early Years): click here to download

Infographics:

Creators as shown. Click to download in PDF format.