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The Development of a Research Human Milk Bank

Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center (CCHMC) in the Divisions of General; Cincinnati Children’s Research Human Milk Bank and member liaison for the Human Milk Interest Group at CCHMC to the Human Milk Banking Association of North America

Barbara S. Davidson, MS, MSN

Cincinnati Children’s Research Human Milk Bank

Barbara B. Warner, MD

Division of Neonatology, CCHMC.; Tri Health Nurseries

Amy L. Sapsford, RD, CSP, LD

Jeanne L. Ballard, MD

University Hospital nurseries; CCHMC and University Hospital; Lactation Education Resource Center at University Hospital

Betsy A. List, RN, IBCLC

CCHMC

Rachel Akers, MPH

Center for Epidemiology and Biostatistics at CCHMC

Ardythe L. Morrow, PhD

University of Cincinnati College of Medicine and CCHMC; National Institutes of Health-funded program on human milk immune protection against infectious disease (HD13201); multidisciplinary human milk research program at CCHMC

Although there are well-established clinical human milk banks in the United States, there are no milk banks specifically intended to foster research on human milk. The authors’goalwas to establish a milk bank with a core data set to support exploratory and hypothesis-driven studies on human milk. Donations to the Cincinnati Children’s Research Human Milk Bank are accepted within the context of ongoing, hypothesis-driven research or on an ad hoc basis. Donors must give informed consent, and scientists wishing to use the samples must have Institutional review board approval for their use. Development of more research human milk banks can potentially provide resources for multidisciplinary collaboration and advance the study of human milk and lactation.

Key Words: donor milk • human milk • milk banking • research

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