Ifeyinwa Asiodu, PhD, RN, FAAN

Ifeyinwa Asiodu, PhD, RN, FAAN

Ifeyinwa Asiodu, PhD, RN, FAAN

Professor
Family Health Care Nursing

Biography

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.

MS, - Nursing, University of California, San Francisco
PhD, - Nursing, University of California, San Francisco
Postdoctoral, - Nursing, University of Illinois at Chicago
BSN, - Nursing, University of Southern California

Award of Excellence in Research, Association of Women's Health, Obstetrics, and Neonatal Nurses, 2026
IMPACT Scholar, UCSF Clinical and Translational Science Institute (CTSI), 2025
Excellence in Research Mentoring, UCSF School of Nursing, 2025
PhD Class Marshal, UCSF School of Nursing, 2025
Changemaker Award, United States Lactation Consultant Association, 2024
Golden Lactation Award in Human Milk Research, Uplifting Black and Brown Lactation Success (UBBLS) Conference, North Carolina A&T State University, 2024
NIH Loan Repayment Program (LRP), National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD), Contraception and Infertility, 2023
Outstanding Leadership/Advocacy Award, American Public Health Association - Maternal and Child Health Section, 2022
Excellence in Black Breastfeeding Research Award, Black Breastfeeding Week, 2022
Fellow, American Academy of Nursing, 2021
Golden Wave Award, California Breastfeeding Coalition, 2021
NIH Loan Repayment Program (LRP), National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD), Contraception and Infertility, 2021
W.E.B. Du Bois Researcher Award, Reaching Our Sisters Everywhere (ROSE), 2020
Changemakers in Family Planning, Society of Family Planning, 2020
Hellman Fellows, Hellman Fellows Fund, 2019-2021
NIMHD Health Disparities Research Institute (HDRI) Scholar, National Institute of Minority Health and Health Disparities (NIMHD), 2017
National First Food Racial Equity Cohort, Center for Social Inclusion, 2016
Trainee Travel Award, International Society for Research in Human Milk and Lactation (ISRHML), 2015
Meritorious Service Award, UCSF Nursing Alumni, 2014
Emerging Leader Award, UCSF Sigma Theta Tau, Alpha Eta Chapter, 2014

https://profiles.ucsf.edu/ifeyinwa.asiodu

Got milk? A look at breastfeeding from an African American perspective.
Implementation Facilitators and Barriers for Home Visitors Discussing Adverse Childhood Experiences: A Qualitative Study.
Interventions to support postpartum health and well-being of parents with infants in neonatal intensive care units: a scoping review.
Understanding practices of lactation and infant feeding together with women with HIV: the UPLIFT observational study protocol.
Effect of behavioral interventions on contraceptive use among women living with HIV: Systematic review and meta-analysis of randomized controlled trials.
Infant feeding decisions among people living with human immunodeficiency virus in the United States: a pilot study.
The NICU doula: family-centered support in the neonatal intensive care unit.
Preventing Adverse Childhood Experiences: A Framework for Culturally Responsive Home Visitation.
The lived experiences of lesbian-identified Black women navigating sexual and reproductive health care: a scoping review
Breastfeeding in the United States: Strategies to Support Families and Achieve National Goals
An exploration of perinatal healthcare providers' perspectives on respectful maternity care in the United States: a scoping review.
Evidence Supports Breastfeeding Interventions in Primary Care, but Implementation Is Still Challenging.
Advancing Health Equity in Pediatric Primary Care: The BLOOM Clinic’s Innovative Model for Black Children.
Automating Racism: Is Use of the Vaginal Birth After Cesarean Calculator Associated with Inequity in Perinatal Service Delivery?
Patterns of peripartum depression and anxiety during the pre-vaccine COVID-19 pandemic.
Access to and interest in human milk research opportunities among Black pregnant and postpartum people.
Reckoning with Resilience.
Virtual Research Prioritization: Innovations for Research Agenda Development With Impacted Communities.
Patient-Led Approaches to a Vaginal Birth After Cesarean Delivery Calculator.
Milk antibody response after 3rd COVID-19 vaccine and SARS-CoV-2 infection and implications for infant protection.
Assessment of Adverse Reactions, Antibody Patterns, and 12-month Outcomes in the Mother-Infant Dyad After COVID-19 mRNA Vaccination in Pregnancy.
"She should support me, she's my doctor:" Patient perceptions of agency in contraceptive decision-making in the clinical encounter in Northern California.
Milk antibody response after 3rd dose of COVID-19 mRNA vaccine and SARS-CoV-2 breakthrough infection and implications for infant protection.
Patterns of Peripartum Depression and Anxiety During the Pre-Vaccine COVID-19 Pandemic.
Emerging approaches to redressing multi-level racism and reproductive health disparities.
Racial Disparities in Donor Human Milk Feedings: A Study Using Electronic Medical Records.
Infant Formula Shortage: This Should Not Be Our Reality.
Effects of Vaccination Against Influenza, Pertussis, and COVID-19 on Human Milk Antibodies: Current Evidence and Implications for Health Equity.
Neutralizing antibody activity against SARS-CoV-2 variants in gestational age-matched mother-infant dyads after infection or vaccination.
Social Construction of Target Populations: A Theoretical Framework for Understanding Policy Approaches to Perinatal Illicit Substance Screening.
COVID-19 mRNA Vaccination in Lactation: Assessment of Adverse Events and Vaccine Related Antibodies in Mother-Infant Dyads.
Infant Outcomes Following Maternal Infection With Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2): First Report From the Pregnancy Coronavirus Outcomes Registry (PRIORITY) Study.
Reimagining Perinatal Mental Health: An Expansive Vision For Structural Change.
Global research priorities for COVID-19 in maternal, reproductive and child health: Results of an international survey.
Risk of pregnancy loss before 20 weeks' gestation in study participants with COVID-19.
Achieving Breastfeeding Equity and Justice in Black Communities: Past, Present, and Future.
Breastfeeding in Incarcerated Settings in the United States: A National Survey of Frequency and Policies.
Black Maternal Health Research Re- Envisioned: Best Practices for the Conduct of Research With, For, and By Black Mamas
The COVID-19 liquid gold rush: Critical perspectives of human milk and SARS-CoV-2 infection.
Reflecting on Equity in Perinatal Care During a Pandemic.
Racial and Ethnic Inequities in Postpartum Pain Evaluation and Management.
Race, Research, and Women's Health: Best Practice Guidelines for Investigators.
Priorities for Contraception and Lactation Among Breast Pump-Dependent Mothers of Premature Infants in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit.
Reintegrating modern birth practice within ancient birth process: What high cesarean rates ignore about physiologic birth.
Infant Feeding Decision-Making and the Influences of Social Support Persons Among First-Time African American Mothers.
Barriers to Human Milk Feeding at Discharge of Very-Low-Birth-Weight Infants: Maternal Goal Setting as a Key Social Factor.
Barriers to Human Milk Feeding at Discharge of Very Low-Birthweight Infants: Evaluation of Neighborhood Structural Factors.
What Does Infant Feeding Mean to African American Women and Their Support Persons.
Breastfeeding and use of social media among first-time African American mothers.

BSN Entry to DNP — Advanced Nursing Focus
PhD, Nursing

Nurse-Midwifery

Community and Population Health
Health Equity
Health Policy and Health Services Research
Reproductive, Maternal, and Child Health

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