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Breastfeeding is recognized as an important public health issue with enormous social and economic implications. Infants who do not receive breast milk are likely to experience poorer health outcomes than breastfed infants; mothers who do not breastfeed increase their own health risks.
Publications on the topic of breastfeeding are wide ranging. Articles about breastfeeding are currently published journals focused on nursing, midwifery, paediatric, obstetric, family medicine, public health, immunology, physiology, sociology and many other topics. In addition, electronic publishing allows fast publication time for authors and Open Access ensures the journal is easily accessible to readers.
International Breastfeeding Journal encompasses all aspects of breastfeeding. The journal addresses the need for a high quality multi-disciplinary journal in the field.
In order to help women breastfeed successfully, there is a need to understand both the physiology of lactation and the social and cultural context within which breastfeeding occurs. The journal addresses all of these aspects, including identifying women who are at increased risk of not breastfeeding; the impediments to breastfeeding and the health effects of not breastfeeding for infants and their mothers; interventions to increase breastfeeding initiation and duration; and the management of breastfeeding problems.

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Editor-in-Chief 
Lisa Amir, University of Melbourne, Australia
Deputy Editor
Susan Donath, University of Melbourne, Australia
Associate Editors 
Annette Noble Beasley
Amanda Cooklin, La Trobe University, Australia
Sally Dowling, University of the West of England, UK
Ted Greiner, Editor in Chief, World Nutrition 
Jenny Ingram, University of Bristol, UK
Sue Jordan, Swansea University, UK
Editorial Board 
Alex Anderson, University of Georgia, USA
Colin Binns, Curtin University, Australia 
Amy E Brown, Swansea University, UK
Anna Coutsoudis, University of Natal, South Africa 
Megan Elliott-Rudder, University of New South Wales, Australia 
Ros Escott, THO South Clinical Ethics Advisory Group, Australia 
Della Forster, Royal Women's Hospital, Australia 
Suzanne Garland, Royal Women's Hospital, Australia 
Laurence Grummer-Strawn, World Health Organization WHO Geneva, Switzerland
Lars Hanson, University of Goteborg, Sweden 
Peter Hartmann, University of Western Australia, Australia 
Bernardo Horta, Universidade Federal de Pelotas, Brazil 
Ellen Ai-Rhan, Kim Asan Medical Center, Republic of Korea 
Linda Kvist, University of Lund, Sweden 
Helen McLachlan, La Trobe University, Australia 
Maureen Minchin, Milk Matters Pty Ltd, Australia 
Katsumi Mizuno, Showa University of Medicine, Japan 
Karen Moland, University of Bergen, Norway 
Pamela Morrison, World Alliance for Breastfeeding Action, UK
Nathan Nickel, Manitoba Centre for Health Policy, Canada 
Makiko Ohyama, Kanagawa Children's Medical Center, Japan 
Gillian Opie, Mercy Hospital for Women, Australia 
Heather Rowe, Monash University, Australia 
Magda Sachs, Salford Primary Care Trust, UK
Jane Scott, Curtin University, Australia 
Karen Simmer, University of Western Australia, Australia 
Julie Smith, Australian Centre for Economic Research on Health, Australia 
Janine Stockdale, University of Ulster, Northern Ireland 
David Tappin, Glasgow University, UK
Penny Van Esterik, York University, UK
Barbara Wilson-Clay, Austin Lactation Associates, USA
Mike Woolridge, University of Leeds, UK
Jane Yelland, Murdoch Childrens Research Institute, Australia 
Monika Zukowska-Rubik, Żelazna Medical Centre, Center for Lactation Science, Poland