DR. MEGHAN AZAD

Co-director, MANITOBA INTERDISCIPLINARY LACTATION CENTRE (MILC) & Associate Professor, Pediatrics & Child Health, UNIVERSITY OF MANITOBA

BIO: Meghan holds the Tier 2 Canada research chair in developmental origins of chronic disease. She co-directs the Manitoba Interdisciplinary Lactation Centre (MILC), where her team studies breast milk and the infant microbiome to understand their role in child development. Meghan is deputy director of the CHILD cohort study involving 3,500 Canadian families, co-director of the International Milk Composition Consortium, and co-founder of the international Perinatal Outcomes in the Pandemic (IPOP) Study.

IF I HAD CHOSEN A DIFFERENT CAREER PATH:

Data journalism. I practice elements of this (data visualization and science communication) in my current job, and I think doing it full time would be a fun, exciting and impactful career. The pandemic has highlighted the importance of good data journalism!