Last week WHO held the second webinar on problems with the formula milk industry. This webinar asked the question Should health professional associations refuse industry funding? and featured leaders of nursing, paediatric and obstetric associations. View the recording here -
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iLJrM3LALeU
You can also watch the recording of the first webinar which asked the same question in relation to individuals who accept industry funding -
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=THRNOTDe2WM
Tony Waterston
CHIFA profile: Tony Waterston is a retired consultant paediatrician who worked mainly in the community in Newcastle upon Tyne, UK. He spent 6 years working in Zambia and Zimbabwe and directed the Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health Diploma in Palestinian Child Health teaching programme in the occupied Palestinian territories. He was an Editor of the Journal of Tropical Pediatrics and is on the Executive Committee of the International Society for Social Pediatrics. His academic interests are child poverty, advocacy for child health and children's rights. He is currently the lead moderator of CHIFA (HIFA's sister forum on child health and rights). www.chifa.org He is also a member of the HIFA Steering Group.
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Tony.Waterston AT newcastle.ac.uk
