Naomi Hull
@naomihull.bsky.social
RN, IBCLC, MPH (Nutrition), PhD Candidate @ Uni of Sydney School of Public Health - Advancing Global Food Security for Infants and Young Children.
#infantfeeding #breastfeeding #firstfoodsecurity
National Coordinator - WBTiAUS.
#infantfeeding #breastfeeding #firstfoodsecurity
National Coordinator - WBTiAUS.
3/3 Then this kind of thing will keep happening and infants will continue to be at risk just from being fed and they will NOT have food security. edition.cnn.com/2025/11/09/h...
Preliminary tests find germ that causes botulism in ByHeart baby formula | CNN
Preliminary tests showed that ByHeart baby formula contained the type of bacteria that produces the toxin linked to a botulism outbreak, California health officials said.
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November 11, 2025 at 4:33 AM
3/3 Then this kind of thing will keep happening and infants will continue to be at risk just from being fed and they will NOT have food security. edition.cnn.com/2025/11/09/h...
2/3 If commercial milk formula manufacturers are not held to account with equipment cleanliness, and safe processes and if families are not fully informed on the label of the tin of the risks inherent in commercial milk formulas and appropriate safest preparation instructions,
November 11, 2025 at 4:33 AM
2/3 If commercial milk formula manufacturers are not held to account with equipment cleanliness, and safe processes and if families are not fully informed on the label of the tin of the risks inherent in commercial milk formulas and appropriate safest preparation instructions,
1/3 Here we are again. If women are not supported by governments to breastfeed (meaning - education, health professional training, access to health services, paid maternity leave, social protection, formula marketing regulation).
November 11, 2025 at 4:33 AM
1/3 Here we are again. If women are not supported by governments to breastfeed (meaning - education, health professional training, access to health services, paid maternity leave, social protection, formula marketing regulation).
Do Aust'n health professionals get guidance from their prof associations wrt their obligations under the I'national Code of Marketing of Breastmilk Substitutes? In 2021, the ACCC determined they do, so we set out to find out for sure.
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October 31, 2025 at 11:15 AM
Do Aust'n health professionals get guidance from their prof associations wrt their obligations under the I'national Code of Marketing of Breastmilk Substitutes? In 2021, the ACCC determined they do, so we set out to find out for sure.
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
@jpsmith1.bsky.social
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Why are infant formula donations unhelpful?
#IYCFE #Emergencies #InfantFeeding #Breastfeeding #Donation #Charity #Humanitarian #Conflict #Famine
#IYCFE #Emergencies #InfantFeeding #Breastfeeding #Donation #Charity #Humanitarian #Conflict #Famine
Why are infant formula donations unhelpful?
What made it to my Zotero file last week #9
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September 1, 2025 at 7:41 AM
Why are infant formula donations unhelpful?
#IYCFE #Emergencies #InfantFeeding #Breastfeeding #Donation #Charity #Humanitarian #Conflict #Famine
#IYCFE #Emergencies #InfantFeeding #Breastfeeding #Donation #Charity #Humanitarian #Conflict #Famine
My latest substack - this time in response to a news piece laying blame and responsibility on parents to kee their babies safe from contaminated infant formula.
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August 24, 2025 at 11:47 PM
My latest substack - this time in response to a news piece laying blame and responsibility on parents to kee their babies safe from contaminated infant formula.
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My latest Substack on the Australian National Food Security Strategy. Australia: A land of flood, fire and famine. open.substack.com/pub/nahull/p...
Australia: A land of flood, fire and famine.
What made it to my Zotero file last week #7
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August 18, 2025 at 8:55 AM
My latest Substack on the Australian National Food Security Strategy. Australia: A land of flood, fire and famine. open.substack.com/pub/nahull/p...
My latest Substack - now up to number six in this weekly series! Yay me 🤣
This one is a short summary of the latest State of the World's Food and Nutrition Security report that was launched at the end of July.
Happy to hear comments, feedback, or other thoughts if you have them.
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This one is a short summary of the latest State of the World's Food and Nutrition Security report that was launched at the end of July.
Happy to hear comments, feedback, or other thoughts if you have them.
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August 11, 2025 at 9:39 AM
My latest Substack - now up to number six in this weekly series! Yay me 🤣
This one is a short summary of the latest State of the World's Food and Nutrition Security report that was launched at the end of July.
Happy to hear comments, feedback, or other thoughts if you have them.
lnkd.in/gk3gzq2M
This one is a short summary of the latest State of the World's Food and Nutrition Security report that was launched at the end of July.
Happy to hear comments, feedback, or other thoughts if you have them.
lnkd.in/gk3gzq2M
Reposted by Naomi Hull
Hot off the press! 🔥 our new case study on political lobbying by the baby food industry and how it influenced New Zealand governments decision to opt out of regulations intended to protect infant health. Please see below for the full article 👇 with congrats to Naomi Hull for her leadership on this!
🧵1/3 New paper! Profits Before Health? New Zealand Government Rejection of Stricter Infant Formula Marketing Standards and the Lobbying Behind It. Read it here ➡️ onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
@philbakernz.bsky.social @mboatwright.bsky.social @sydney.edu.au
@philbakernz.bsky.social @mboatwright.bsky.social @sydney.edu.au
August 8, 2025 at 6:50 AM
Hot off the press! 🔥 our new case study on political lobbying by the baby food industry and how it influenced New Zealand governments decision to opt out of regulations intended to protect infant health. Please see below for the full article 👇 with congrats to Naomi Hull for her leadership on this!
🧵3/3 This is timely given the current work in Australia to restrict the marketing of infant formula and what the formula industry has to say about it. You can read what they are saying about the matter (publicly) here ➡️ www.accc.gov.au/public-regis... and ➡️ www.health.gov.au/resources/pu...
August 6, 2025 at 9:45 PM
🧵3/3 This is timely given the current work in Australia to restrict the marketing of infant formula and what the formula industry has to say about it. You can read what they are saying about the matter (publicly) here ➡️ www.accc.gov.au/public-regis... and ➡️ www.health.gov.au/resources/pu...
🧵2/3 The NZ govt bowed to lobbying, departing from the revised standard to limit misleading labels on formula tins. Evidence of many meetings between formula execs and NZ ministers. Strong regulation of lobbying needed to safeguard infant health from profit. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
August 6, 2025 at 9:45 PM
🧵2/3 The NZ govt bowed to lobbying, departing from the revised standard to limit misleading labels on formula tins. Evidence of many meetings between formula execs and NZ ministers. Strong regulation of lobbying needed to safeguard infant health from profit. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
🧵1/3 New paper! Profits Before Health? New Zealand Government Rejection of Stricter Infant Formula Marketing Standards and the Lobbying Behind It. Read it here ➡️ onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
@philbakernz.bsky.social @mboatwright.bsky.social @sydney.edu.au
@philbakernz.bsky.social @mboatwright.bsky.social @sydney.edu.au
August 6, 2025 at 9:45 PM
🧵1/3 New paper! Profits Before Health? New Zealand Government Rejection of Stricter Infant Formula Marketing Standards and the Lobbying Behind It. Read it here ➡️ onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
@philbakernz.bsky.social @mboatwright.bsky.social @sydney.edu.au
@philbakernz.bsky.social @mboatwright.bsky.social @sydney.edu.au
Substack#5 had to be about World Breastfeeding Week 2025 🤱🏽🤱🏼🤱🏾🤱
#WBW2025
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#WBW2025
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Have you heard? It's World Breastfeeding Week.
What made it to my Zotero file #5
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August 4, 2025 at 3:30 AM
Substack#5 had to be about World Breastfeeding Week 2025 🤱🏽🤱🏼🤱🏾🤱
#WBW2025
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#WBW2025
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This week I write about UNICEF's recent publication "Technical and operational guidance for increasing access to breastmilk through wet nursing in emergency settings".
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Wet nursing - an important strategy for securing access to breastfeeding in emergencies
What made it to my Zotero last week #4
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July 30, 2025 at 12:30 AM
This week I write about UNICEF's recent publication "Technical and operational guidance for increasing access to breastmilk through wet nursing in emergency settings".
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Next instalment - what made it to my Zotero file last week #2 - this time it's a book review: Ultra-Processed Women by Milli Hill.
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Latest read: Ultra-Processed Women:The lies we're fed about what we eat and how to break free, by Milli Hill.
What made it to my Zotero File last week #2
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July 14, 2025 at 9:57 AM
Next instalment - what made it to my Zotero file last week #2 - this time it's a book review: Ultra-Processed Women by Milli Hill.
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Need to develop some new writing habits, so going to do weekly Substack posts discussing recent publications that have interested me. Here's my first one.
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Sponsorship of health professional events and education by the commercial formula industry.
What made it to my Zotero File last week #1
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July 7, 2025 at 2:39 AM
Need to develop some new writing habits, so going to do weekly Substack posts discussing recent publications that have interested me. Here's my first one.
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To demonstrate my point - here is a collection of media headings from the last week. If you have seen any that are the counterpoint aside from Clare's (above) I'd love to hear about them 🙏
June 27, 2025 at 3:38 AM
To demonstrate my point - here is a collection of media headings from the last week. If you have seen any that are the counterpoint aside from Clare's (above) I'd love to hear about them 🙏
3/3 News articles about the lack of formula supply are what the formula industry loves - elevation of importance and 'life-saving' nature of the tinned powder. Plus, the halo effect for donating their product. Meanwhile, women are left malnourished, unsupported and even separated from their babies.
June 27, 2025 at 3:27 AM
3/3 News articles about the lack of formula supply are what the formula industry loves - elevation of importance and 'life-saving' nature of the tinned powder. Plus, the halo effect for donating their product. Meanwhile, women are left malnourished, unsupported and even separated from their babies.
2/3 While I understand there will be a need for formula to be supplied, given the high loss of women's lives in this protracted, man-made conflict, I wonder where the media callout is for better support of women (provision of safe space and counselling) and protection of breastfeeding?
June 27, 2025 at 3:27 AM
2/3 While I understand there will be a need for formula to be supplied, given the high loss of women's lives in this protracted, man-made conflict, I wonder where the media callout is for better support of women (provision of safe space and counselling) and protection of breastfeeding?
1/3 Thanks for writing this @clarepatton.bsky.social I've been watching the recent media blitz on starving babies in Gaza with the usual emphasis on lack of formula supplies. www.thejournal.ie/readme/gaza-...
Hunger in Gaza: When starving babies is the strategy, not just the outcome
As a mother and academic who studies Infant and Young Child Feeding in Emergencies, Dr Clare Patton never expected to witness the cruelty of Gaza.
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June 27, 2025 at 3:27 AM
1/3 Thanks for writing this @clarepatton.bsky.social I've been watching the recent media blitz on starving babies in Gaza with the usual emphasis on lack of formula supplies. www.thejournal.ie/readme/gaza-...
From Assessment to Action: Implementing WBTi to Strengthen National Breastfeeding Policies
Webinar July 3rd! 11pm AEST.
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Webinar July 3rd! 11pm AEST.
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From Assessment to Action: Implementing WBTi to Strengthen National Breastfeeding Policies
A webinar of the Global Breastfeeding Collective
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June 24, 2025 at 10:16 PM
From Assessment to Action: Implementing WBTi to Strengthen National Breastfeeding Policies
Webinar July 3rd! 11pm AEST.
www.globalbreastfeedingcollective.org/assessment-a...
Webinar July 3rd! 11pm AEST.
www.globalbreastfeedingcollective.org/assessment-a...
Overnight, the member nations of the World Health Assembly moved to regulate the digital marketing of commercial milk formulas and baby foods. www.who.int/news/item/26...
May 26, 2025 at 8:46 PM
Overnight, the member nations of the World Health Assembly moved to regulate the digital marketing of commercial milk formulas and baby foods. www.who.int/news/item/26...
Will the NZ Govt reconsider their decision to put export dollars before the health of babies in their departure from FSANZ regulations for the first time (sustained) in history?
www.healthcoalition.org.nz/protecting-o...
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Protecting our youngest citizens: put people before profit in infant formula rules - Health Coalition Aotearoa
Health Coalition Aotearoa is deeply concerned by reports of industry lobbying that appears to have influenced Government decisions to weaken infant formula labelling standards in Aotearoa New Zealand....
www.healthcoalition.org.nz
May 1, 2025 at 10:03 PM
Will the NZ Govt reconsider their decision to put export dollars before the health of babies in their departure from FSANZ regulations for the first time (sustained) in history?
www.healthcoalition.org.nz/protecting-o...
www.healthcoalition.org.nz/protecting-o...
It was a priveledge also to be asked to speak on the topic of infant formula regulation - that we could also think of as 'breastfeeding protection'. Joined by Australian Breastfeeding Association, WBTiAUS and other colleagues was a positive robust discussion
May 1, 2025 at 12:27 PM
It was a priveledge also to be asked to speak on the topic of infant formula regulation - that we could also think of as 'breastfeeding protection'. Joined by Australian Breastfeeding Association, WBTiAUS and other colleagues was a positive robust discussion