This week's CHEER CHAMPion of the week is Annie Martin, Regional Coordinator for the Mississippi State Department of Health WIC Breastfeeding Program. Annie started working in lactation as a WIC Peer Counselor because she enjoyed breastfeeding her son and received help from the WIC Breastfeeding

This week’s CHAMPion of the Week is Chenae Marie! She is an author, maternal-mental health and breastfeeding advocate, and speaker. She released the Breastfeeding Mamas adult coloring book in 2018. Each page of the book is dedicated to one real-life black breastfeeding "mama," affirmation

Congratulations to SolidarityNow as our CHAMPion of the Week! SolidarityNow is a non-governmental organization that operates three Solidarity Centers for the Greek, along with migrant and refugee populations in Athens and Thessaloniki, Gre

This week we celebrate Zakelin Chatzikyriakou, an Arabic culture interpreter at SolidarityNow, with a degree in Chemistry from the University of Crete. She has made several contributions to child protection, and women empowerment and protection camps in Greece. Zakelin previously worked with Interna

This week we celebrate Becky Page, RN, IBCLC, and Maternal Child Coordinator at South Central Regional Medical Center (SCRMC) in Laurel, Mississippi. She also works PRN at Anderson Regional Medical Center in the NICU/Well Baby Nursery. As part of her coordinator role, she serves as SCRMC’s lead

CHEER is thrilled to celebrate CHEERing volunteer Zeinab Alsheraa, MSC, MPH. Zeinab and her family came to the United States as refugees after leaving Iraq. This summer, she volunteered her time and expertise at CHEERing, giving back to the community she was once part of. Zeinab is a recent gradu

Congratulations to this week’s CHAMPion of the Week, Singing River Pascagoula Hospital, for the newly achieved Baby-Friendly designation! After starting their Baby-Friendly journey six years ago, they officially became designated on August 26, 2022. The achievement remains a team effort and they a

This week, we celebrate Tawanda Logan-Hurt who is a Public Health Program Specialist Team Lead and Mississippi State Department of Health (MSDH) District Breastfeeding Coordinator, BSW, CLC, IBCLC. Tawanda is associated with Mississippi Baby Cafe USA as State Coordinator

CHEER, the Center for Health Equity, Education, and Research, would like to thank Aishat Gambari for her excellent work. She joined CHEER in 2019 and has been an integral part of our team. She is now attending the Nutrition and Health Sciences doctoral program at Emory University. During her time

This week, we celebrate Asian American, Native Hawaiian, and Pacific Islander (AANHPI) Lactation Collaborative of California as our CHAMPion of the Week! This Collaborative, established in December 2021, is a joint workgroup made up of AANHPI lactation professionals, public health workers, studen