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Cecília Tomori: Faculty Directory

Cecília Tomori, PhD

Associate Professor
Director of Global Public Health and Community Health
Cecília Tomori
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Specialties and Expertise

  • Community
  • COVID-19
  • Disaster Prep
  • Disparities
  • Diversity
  • Education
  • Equity
  • Family
  • Global
  • Health Behavior
  • Health Policy
  • HIV/AIDS
  • Infectious Disease
  • Lactation
  • Maternal Health
  • Newborns
  • Parenting
  • Pediatrics
  • Policy
  • Public Health
  • Qualitative Research
  • Sleep
  • Social Determinants of Health
  • Substance Use/Addiction
  • Vaccines/Immunizations
  • Women's Health

Overview

Cecília Tomori is an anthropologist and public health scholar whose work investigates the structural and sociocultural drivers that shape health, illness, and health inequities. Tomori is internationally recognized for her expertise on breastfeeding, infant sleep, and maternal child health. During the COVID-19 pandemic, she has supported numerous organizations focused on maternal child health and advocated for integrated and equitable pandemic policies. Recently, she has also been pursuing how science and health policy are influenced by financial and political interests. Dr. Tomori, who holds a joint appointment in the Bloomberg School of Public Health's Department of Population, Family and Reproductive Health, has collaborated with colleagues at Johns Hopkins and beyond on breastfeeding, infant sleep, infectious disease prevention, drug use and health policy, among other topics. She is an author of the 2023 Lancet Breastfeeding Series, three books on breastfeeding and reproduction, and numerous publications on a range of public health issues.

Additional Resources

Below are selected resources. For more information, please see full CV.

  • Publications/Research

    Pérez-Escamilla R, Tomori C, Hernández-Cordero S, Baker P, Barros AJD, Begin F, Chapman DJ, Grummer-Strawn LM, McCoy D, Menon P, Neves PAR, Piwoz E, Rollins N, Victora CG, Richter L, on behalf of the 2023 Lancet Breastfeeding Series Group. (2023) Breastfeeding: crucially important, but increasingly challenged in a market-driven world. The Lancet. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/S0140-6736(22)01932-8

    Rollins N, Piwoz E, Baker P, Kingston G, Mbaso KM, McCoy D, Neves P, Pérez-Escamilla R, Richter L, Russ K, Sen G, Tomori C, Victora CG, Zambrano P, Hastings G, on behalf of the 2023 Lancet Breastfeeding Series Group. (2023). Marketing of commercial milk formula: a system to capture parents, communities, science, and policy. The Lancet. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/S0140-6736(22)01931-6

    Baker P, Smith J, Garde A, Smith J, Garde A, Grummer-Strawn L, Wood M, Sen G, Hastings G, Pérez-Escamilla R, Ling CY, Rollins N, McCoy D, on behalf of the 2023 Lancet Breastfeeding Series Group (Tomori C author member). (2023). The political economy of infant and young child feeding: confronting structural barriers, overcoming power asymmetries, and accelerating progress. The Lancet. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/S0140-6736(22)01933-X

    Tomori C, Hernández-Cordero S, Busath N, Menon P, Pérez-Escamilla R. (2022) What works to protect, promote and support breastfeeding on a large scale: a review of reviews. Maternal Child Nutrition. doi: https://doi.org/10.1111/mcn.13344

    Han, SS and Tomori C. (eds). (2021). Routledge Handbook of Anthropology and Reproduction. New York, London: Routledge.

  • Awards/Honors

    2023   Johns Hopkins Alumni Association’s Excellence in Teaching Award, JHSON

    2022   School of Nursing Informers and Educators (SONIE) Award, JHSON

    2018   Exceptional Contribution Award, Durham University, Durham, UK

    2012   Named Anthroworks Best 40 Cultural Anthropology Dissertations of 2011, blog of the Culture in Global Affairs research and policy program of the Elliott School of International Affairs, George Washington University

    2009-2011   Ruth L. Kirschstein National Research Service Award Training Fellowship in Anthropological Demography, Awarded by the Population Studies Center, Institute for Social Research, and the Department of Anthropology, University of Michigan

    2009-2010   Margaret Dow Towsley Scholar, Center for the Education of Women, University of Michigan

    2009   Horace H. Rackham Graduate Student Research Grant, University of Michigan

    2008   Phi Kappa Phi, University of Michigan

    2007   Roy Rappaport Teaching Award for Outstanding Graduate Student Instruction, University of Michigan, Fall

    2006-2007   Predoctoral Research Fellowship, Center for the Ethnography of Everyday Life, An Alfred P. Sloan Center for the Study of Working Families, University of Michigan

    2005-2006   Ruth L. Kirschstein National Research Service Award Training Fellowship in Anthropological Demography, Awarded by the Population Studies Center, Institute for Social Research, and the Department of Anthropology, University of Michigan

    2005   Horace H. Rackham Humanities Fellowship, University of Michigan

    2003-2004   Horace H. Rackham Outstanding Graduate Student Instructor Award, University of Michigan, University of Michigan

    2003   Fieldwork Research Grant, Department of Anthropology, University of Michigan

    2003   Roy Rappaport Teaching Award for Outstanding Graduate Student Instruction, University of Michigan, Fall

    2003   Roy Rappaport Teaching Award for Outstanding Graduate Student Instruction, University of Michigan, Winter

    2002-2003   Horace H. Rackham Outstanding Graduate Student Instructor Award, University of Michigan, University of Michigan

    2001-2002   Predoctoral Research Fellowship, Center for the Ethnography of Everyday Life, An Alfred P. Sloan Center for the Study of Working Families, University of Michigan

    1997   Phi Beta Kappa, Swarthmore College

    1996   Joel Dean Grant for Research in the Social Sciences, Swarthmore College