Michele K. Griswold

Southern Connecticut State University

Dr. Griswold (she/her/they) is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Public Health at Southern Connecticut State University. She is health equity scholar with a background in maternal-child and pediatric nursing and in public health advocacy, policy and grassroots coalition building. Her research interests involve the identification of unjust social barriers to breast/chestfeeding. She has worked with the BU Black Women’s Health Study to understand how racism influences breastfeeding in the workplace, housing and with the police and the effects of neighborhood socioeconomic status relative to breastfeeding. As an issue of bodily autonomy, she is also interested in how people living with HIV in the U.S. experience breastfeeding counseling in the clinical setting and in advocating for access to breastfeeding for people who are incarcerated. She has held local and global leadership positions with the World Health Organization/UNICEF Global Breastfeeding Collective, advocating for equitable access to breastfeeding and lactation care as well as family friendly policies to support breastfeeding.

Areas of Expertise

• Health and Medicine
• Policy
• Maternal Child Health
• Global Health
• Public Health

Methodology

• Community-based Participatory Research (CBPR)
• Focus Groups
• Interviews
• Qualitative Methods
• Quantitative Methods
• Secondary Data Analysis
• Metasynthesis