Aunchalee Palmquist, PhD, MA, IBCLC
Aunchalee E. L. Palmquist, PhD, MA, IBCLC
Aunchalee Palmquist in the Gillings News
- Gillings School honors 8 faculty members for teaching innovation
- During a formula shortage is the perfect time to talk about milk sharing
- Looking at the impact of COVID-19 on exclusive breastfeeding in Kenya and beyond
- Palmquist receives Gillings Faculty Award for Excellence in Health Equity Research
- Little known about needs of people who experience menopause while incarcerated
Honors and Awards
Faculty Award for Excellence in Health Equity Research
2021, Gillings School of Global Public Health
Delta Omega, Theta Chapter, Faculty Inductee
2021, Gillings School Global Public Health
National Institute of Minority Health and Health Disparities Loan Repayment Award
2019-2020, National Institutes of Health
Teaching Innovation Award
2020, Gillings School of Global Public Health
William Lloyd Garrison Ally Award
2019, Reaching Our Sisters Everywhere (ROSE)
IBM Junior Faculty Development Award
2019
Research Activities
Bioethics, incarceration, and maternal-newborn separation
Ethical, legal, and social implications of human milk science
Racism and human milk exchange
Improving lactation services for perinatally incarcerated women with opioid use disorder
Breastfeeding Knowledge, Attitudes, and Practices due to COVID-19 in Kenya
Perinatal mental health and breastfeeding among internally displaced Yazidi women in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq (completed)
Becoming a mother after Ebola: A qualitative study of Liberian Ebola survivors' pregnancy and postpartum experiences (completed)
Human milk sharing practices in the United States (completed)
Service Activities
2021-2022: NICHD, Breastfeeding Ecology: Genesis of Infant Nutrition (BEGIN) Project, Translation Working Group
2020- present: HMBANA Donor Milk Health Equity Task Force
2019 – present: Health Connect One, Research Advisory Board
2020: MCH Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion workgroup.
2020 – present: Co-Steward, COVID-19 Infant and Young Child Feeding Constellation, United States Breastfeeding Committee.
2020 North Carolina Pregnancy & Continuity of Care During COVID-19 Taskforce.
2018 – present: Disaster Response Advisory Group.
2018 – present: Emergency Nutrition Network Infant Feeding in Emergencies (IFE) Core Group, Steering Committee.
2018 – present: WHO/UNICEF Global Breastfeeding Collective.
Key Publications
Assessment of perinatal depression risk among internally displaced Yazidi women in Iraq: A descriptive cross-sectional study. . Seidi PA-M, Qudrat Abas N, Jaff D, Dunstan R, Soltan L, Brumwell A, Wilson MW, Nicholson T, and Palmquist AEL. (2022). BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth.
Making space for lactation in the anthropology of reproduction. Tomori C, Quinn EA, and Palmquist AEL (2021). The Routledge Handbook of Anthropology and Reproduction, 1.
Achieving breastfeeding equity and justice in Black communities: Past, present, and future. Asiodu IV, Bugg K, and Palmquist AEL‡. (2021). Breastfeeding Medicine, 16(6).
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Ready, Set, BABY Live: Virtual prenatal breastfeeding education for COVID-19. Palmquist AEL, Parry KC, Wouk K, Lawless GC, Smith JL, Smetana AR, Bourg JF, Hendricks MJ, and Sullivan CS. (2020). Journal of Human Lactation.
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The COVID-19 liquid gold rush: Critical perspectives on human milk and SARS-CoV-2 Infection. Palmquist AEL, Asiodu IV, and Quinn EA. (2020). American Journal of Human Biology.
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“It was all taken away”: Lactation, embodiment, and resistance among mothers caring for their very-low-birth-weight preterm infants in the neonatal intensive care unit. Palmquist, AEL, Holdren S, and Fair C. (2020). Social Science & Medicine.
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Cooperative lactation and the mother-infant nexus. In: Halcrow S and Gowland R, editors. The Mother-Infant Nexus in Anthropology: Small Beginnings, Significant Outcomes. Palmquist AEL. (2019). Springer.
Breastfeeding: New Anthropological Approaches. Tomori C, Palmquist AEL, and Quinn EA, Editors. (2018). Routledge.
Education
- Board Cert, Clinical Lactation (IBCLC), UNC-CH, 2018
- Trainee, MRTTI-Carolina Global Breastfeeding Institute, University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill, 2013
- Postdoctoral Fellow, Global Health, Yale University, 2011
- Postdoctoral Fellow, Social Network Methods, National Human Genome Research Institute, National Institutes of Health, 2009
- PhD, Anthropology, University of Hawaii, Manoa, 2006
- MA, Anthropology, University of Hawaii, Manoa, 1997
- BA, Anthropology, University of Louisville, Louisville KY, 1994