Ifeyinwa Asiodu, PhD, RN, FAAN

Ifeyinwa Asiodu is a Professor in the Department of Family Health Care Nursing at University of California, San Francisco School of Nursing. As a reproductive health equity researcher, public health nurse, and lactation consultant, her research is focused on the intersection of systemic and structural barriers, life course perspective, and human milk and lactation. Dr. Asiodu uses a critical ethnographic lens to inform her work. The long-term goal of her program of research is to reduce infant feeding disparities and increase equitable access to high-quality human milk feeding care, lactation support, maternity care, and contraception services for Black communities. She is also actively engaged in local, state and national human milk feeding (e.g. breastfeeding and donor human milk), reproductive health, maternal and child health, and public health organizations geared toward achieving birth and human milk feeding justice. Dr. Asiodu also leads the MILK Research Lab at UCSF.