Ethics Extravaganza 2026

June 1 - 15, 2026

Registration opens May 1, 2026

Photo credit: Paul Carter, We Do It In Public. Used with permission.

Our 12th online ethics conference, Ethics Extravaganza 2026, is made up of E CERP presentations from our conferences in 2024 and 2025. iLactation offered 5.00 E CERPs for IBCLCs around the world to help satisfy the requirement for a minimum of 5 E CERPs on ethics and related topics for IBCLC re-certification, including 2 hours on the WHO Code.

Stronger regulations for formula marketing are needed to improve breastfeeding outcomes: lessons from the 2023 Lancet Breastfeeding Series

Cecília Tomori, PhD, MA, BA - Read more

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Stronger regulations for formula marketing are needed to improve breastfeeding outcomes: lessons from the 2023 Lancet Breastfeeding Series

Cecília Tomori, PhD, MA, BA

Dr Cecília Tomori is Associate Professor at the Johns Hopkins School of Nursing with a joint appointment at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health’s Department of Population, Family and Reproductive Health. Dr Tomori is an anthropologist and public health scholar, who is internationally recognized for her expertise on breastfeeding, infant sleep, and maternal child health. She is a co-author of the 2023 Lancet Breastfeeding Series, several books – Anthropology of Reproduction (2025), Nighttime Breastfeeding (2025 [2014]), The Routledge Handbook of Anthropology and Reproduction (2022), Breastfeeding: New Anthropological Approaches (2018) – and numerous publications on a wide range of public health issues. Her work has been widely cited in peer reviewed literature, clinical and global public health guidance, and in the media.

Stronger regulations for formula marketing are needed to improve breastfeeding outcomes: lessons from the 2023 Lancet Breastfeeding Series

This presentation will address key lessons from the 2023 Lancet Breastfeeding Series, which provides a synthesis of the most recent research on the critical importance of breastfeeding, the barriers and opportunities for creating systems that enable women globally to breastfeed as they desire. The talk will focus on the role of the commercial milk formula (CMF) industry and its far-reaching influence on families, health care providers and policy makers. The lecture will also provide a framework for the CMF industry playbook and specific examples of how this playbook is deployed to shape families’ and health professionals’ views of human infant behavior to generate profits. The talk will conclude with concrete strategies for policies and regulations that must be enacted to end unethical marketing and enable women to realize their breastfeeding goals.

1.00 E (VII) CERP

Code importance

Bridget Roache, RN, RM, IBCLC, Grad Dip CBE, MSc(Res) - Read more

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Code importance

Bridget Roache, RN, RM, IBCLC, Grad Dip CBE, MSc(Res)

Bridget Roache is the owner of Facts of Life Lactation Education which provides online, comprehensive education for health professionals preparing to become lactation consultants, or who wish to upskill their breastfeeding management knowledge. Hundreds of lactation consultants have successfully undertaken education from Facts of Life.

Code importance

Understanding the International Code of Marketing of Breast-milk Substitutes (the Code) is vital for all health professionals who work with women, babies and families. Ethical and evidence based practice ensures safe, respectful and appropriate care that supports optimal health outcomes, which underpins the Code.

1.00 E (VII) CERP