GOLD Speakers

Indira López-Bassols, BA (HONS), MSC, IBCLC, PHD student

• Country: United Kingdom

Biography:

Indira Lopez-Bassols has dedicated the past 18 years to birth and breastfeeding support. She has been an International Board Certified Lactation Consultant (IBCLC) for 14 years and currently works as a clinician, educator and researcher.

As a clinician IBCLC, she has been in charge of the Specialist Breastfeeding Clinic (Central London Community Healthcare NHS Trust) for complex breastfeeding dyads for the past 6 years. Her leadership contributed to the clinic's recognition of the 2023 IBCLC Community-Based Care Award and UNICEF BFI Stage 3 Gold accreditation.

As the Director of the Centre for Breastfeeding Education and Research, she created 14 years ago the Art and Science of Breastfeeding Course, a 1 year-long in-depth training for future IBCLCs. It has over 600 alumni from all over the world.

As a researcher, she is currently doing Doctoral studies within the Mother, Infant and Child Health research group (MIRU) in the School of Health Sciences at Dundee University. Her PhD examines breastfeeding education for HCPs: the interplay between motivation, learning needs and the development of an IBCLC professional identity.