Category: Family and Consumer Sciences

The postgraduate human lactation program at North Carolina A&T State University is only four years old, but already it’s diversifying a profession, operating a community clinic and graduating new professionals dedicated to improving the health of mothers and their newborn children. Earlier this year, the program hosted a national breastfeeding conference — a first for a Historically Black College and University.

Not too long ago, schools, businesses and public gathering places closed as people huddled in their homes to avoid a new and deadly virus called COVID-19.