Evidence Behind the Human Milk Calculator

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  Rebecca Hoban

  Dr. Rebecca Hoban is a board certified neonatologist with strong clinical, research, and educational interests in human milk and lactation. She earned her medical degree from Indiana University, completed pediatric residency at Cincinnati Children’s, a neonatology fellowship at Tufts Floating Hospital in Boston, and a Master of Public Health at Harvard. She has practiced as a neonatologist at Rush University Medical Center and the Hospital for Sick Children at the University of Toronto. In 2023, she became Director of Breastfeeding Medicine at Seattle Children’s Hospital and the University of Washington. She brings extensive global experience across a dozen countries and is active in clinical and translational human milk research. Her work includes improving human milk provision in high risk infants, milk biomarkers to predict lactation success, lactation in substance use, and human milk as a potential stem cell therapy in preterm infants.

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  Tricia Johnson

  Dr. Tricia Johnson is a Professor of Economics in the Department of Health Systems Management at RUSH University. As one of the few human milk economists globally, her work intersects human milk provision, economic outcomes, and policy application, focusing on at-risk infants in the NICU. She is the principal investigator on two NIH-funded studies testing the effectiveness and cost-effectiveness of interventions to mitigate economic barriers to MOM provision for mothers of very preterm infants. With over 20 years of experience teaching graduate-level research methods and health economics, Dr. Johnson co-leads the RUSH BMO Institute for Health Equity’s research initiatives, including the Health Equity Research Scholars Program. She enjoys gardening, knitting, sewing, cooking, and reading printed books in her free time.