Sullivan, Catherine

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Catherine Sullivan, MPH, RD, LDN, IBCLC, FAND

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Catherine Sullivan

Director, Assistant Professor

Carolina Global Breastfeeding Institute, Gillings School of Global Public Health, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Catherine Sullivan, MPH, RD, LDN, IBCLC, FAND is Director and assistant professor at the Carolina Global Breastfeeding Institute (CGBI). Catherine leads CGBI programmatic efforts in the areas of breastfeeding friendly healthcare, childcare, communities, and in lactation training. She serves as CGBIs Principal Investigator on the core leadership team of CDCs EMPower Breastfeeding Initiatives and leads ENRICH Carolinas and RISE: Lactation Training Model (Reclaiming, Improving, and Sustaining Equity). Catherine serves as course coordinator for the Mary Rose Tully Training Initiative, an accredited pathway 2 lactation training program. Catherine served as State Breastfeeding Coordinator in the NC Division of Public Health from 2006-2013 and has worked locally as a WIC Director. She is a past faculty member at ECUs Brody School of Medicine. She is a registered and licensed dietitian and an International Board Certified Lactation Consultant. Past service includes; Co-Chair of the NC Lactation Consultant Association, elected director to the United States Breastfeeding Committee, and is a past chair of the Womens Health Dietetic Practice Group for the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics. She was inducted as a Fellow for the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics in 2017. She is the 2021 recipient of the prestigious Bernard G. Greenberg Alumni Endowment Award from the Gillings School of Public Health. Catherine has given over 100 invited presentations in the areas of lactation training, maternity care practices, breastfeeding advocacy, and nutrition. She has over twenty-five years of experience in the fields of nutrition and lactation. She currently lives in Pittsboro, NC.

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