Shakeya Brevard, Public Health Education Specialist

Editor’s note (September 2026): This post is kept as part of Breastfeed Durham’s history and reflects 2022. Each new year gives us an opportunity to reflect on the previous year and strategically plan changes that will better us and our work moving forward. 2022 was a wild year for our initiative, we continued to navigate

November kicked off Black Babies Awareness Month, a campaign led by the Equity Research Action Coalition at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill that calls to protect, promote, and preserve the health and wellbeing of Black infants and families. In 2021, women who gave birth in Durham County tended to be older and more educated

Durham County Department of Public Health is excited to announce we’ve initiated partnership with Breastfeed Durham for the provision of the Improving Community Outcomes for Maternal and Child Health (ICO4MCH) initiative.   Funded by the North Carolina Division of Public Health, this initiative is intended to improve birth outcomes, reduce infant mortality, and improve the health