One of the factors, which is a main focus of the series, is the very misleading and exploitative marketing from infant formula companies that use messaging about the benefits of their products without almost any scientific basis whatsoever, essentially sending a message that infant formulas are similar to, if not even better than, breastfeeding for the health and well-being of the babies.

Rafael Perez-Escamilla

Rafael Pérez-Escamilla Costas is a Mexican-American public health nutritionist. He is a Full professor in the division of Chronic Disease Epidemiology and director of the Office of Public Health Practice, the Global Health Concentration, and the Maternal Child Health Promotion program at Yale School of Public Health. During his tenure at UConn and Yale, Pérez-Escamilla has served as a scientific expert advisor for the World Health Organization, UNICEF FAO, the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine, the United States Department of Agriculture, and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.

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