Dr Jordyn Tinka Wallenborn is a postdoctoral researcher at the Swiss Tropical and Public Health Institute (Swiss TPH). Her work focuses on understanding the relationship between human milk and lactation and early childhood development. She is also interested in the impact of individual, interpersonal and societal factors on breastfeeding practices and in identifying interventions to support breastfeeding mothers. Before joining Swiss TPH, Dr Wallenborn completed a postdoctoral fellowship at the University of California Berkeley Center of Excellence in Maternal, Child, and Adolescent Health in the USA. She graduated with a BA in community health from Minnesota State University Moorhead, an MPH with a concentration in infectious disease management from North Dakota State University and a PhD in epidemiology from Virginia Commonwealth University.