Katie Hinde, PhD

Did you know mother's milk was older than dinosaurs? Or that the "biological recipe" of mother's milk can differ for sons and daughters? Did you know that milk doesn't just provide the building blocks for infant development, but fuels infant behavior too? Hinde investigates the food, medicine, and signal of mother's milk. In addition to dozens of peer-reviewed journal articles and book chapters, Hinde co-edited “Building Babies: Primate Developmental Trajectories in Proximate and Ultimate Perspective” released by Springer in 2013. Hinde is an associate editor and writer for SPLASH! Milk Science Update, executive council member for the International Society for Research in Human Milk and Lactation, and showcases research on mother’s milk, breastfeeding, and lactation for the general public, clinicians, and researchers at her blog “Mammals Suck… Milk!”