Ifeyinwa Asiodu, RN, PhD, FAAN
Associate Professor
Family Health Care Nursing
School of Nursing

The long-term goal of her program of research is to reduce infant feeding disparities and increase access to high quality human milk feeding care, lactation support, and equitable contraception services for Black communities. She is also actively engaged in local, state and national human milk feeding (e.g. breastfeeding, chestfeeding, and donor human milk), reproductive health, maternal and child health, and public health organizations geared toward achieving birth and human milk feeding equity and justice. Dr. Asiodu also leads the MILK Research Lab at UCSF.

• "She should support me, she's my doctor:" Patient perceptions of agency in contraceptive decision-making in the clinical encounter in Northern California.
  Perspectives on sexual and reproductive health 2023 Rao L, Rocca CH, Muñoz I, Chambers BD, Devaskar S, Asiodu IV, Stern L, Blum M, Comfort AB, Harper CC
• Milk antibody response after 3rd dose of COVID-19 mRNA vaccine and SARS-CoV-2 breakthrough infection and implications for infant protection.
  medRxiv : the preprint server for health sciences 2022 Golan Y, Ilala M, Gay C, Hunagund S, Lin CY, Cassidy AG, Jigmeddagva U, Li L, Ozarslan N, Asiodu IV, Ahituv N, Flaherman VJ, Gaw SL, Prahl M
• Patterns of Peripartum Depression and Anxiety During the Pre-Vaccine COVID-19 Pandemic.
  Research square 2022 Altendahl MR, Xu L, Asiodu I, Boscardin J, Gaw SL, Flaherman VJ, Jacoby VL, Richards MC, Krakow D, Afshar Y
• Emerging approaches to redressing multi-level racism and reproductive health disparities.
  NPJ digital medicine 2022 Golden B, Asiodu IV, Franck LS, Ofori-Parku CY, Suárez-Baquero DFM, Youngston T, McLemore MR
• Racial Disparities in Donor Human Milk Feedings: A Study Using Electronic Medical Records.
  Health equity 2022 Palmquist AEL, Asiodu IV, Tucker C, Tully KP, Asbill DT, Malloy A, Stuebe AM
• Infant Formula Shortage: This Should Not Be Our Reality.
  The Journal of perinatal & neonatal nursing 2022
• Effects of Vaccination Against Influenza, Pertussis, and COVID-19 on Human Milk Antibodies: Current Evidence and Implications for Health Equity.
  Frontiers in immunology 2022 Hunagund S, Golan Y, Asiodu IV, Prahl M, Gaw SL
• Neutralizing antibody activity against SARS-CoV-2 variants in gestational age-matched mother-infant dyads after infection or vaccination.
  JCI insight 2022 Matsui Y, Li L, Prahl M, Cassidy AG, Ozarslan N, Golan Y, Gonzalez VJ, Lin CY, Jigmeddagva U, Chidboy MA, Montano M, Taha TY, Khalid MM, Sreekumar B, Hayashi JM, Chen PY, Kumar GR, Warrier L, Wu AH, …
• Social Construction of Target Populations: A Theoretical Framework for Understanding Policy Approaches to Perinatal Illicit Substance Screening.
  Policy, politics & nursing practice 2021 Cooper NM, Lyndon A, McLemore MR, Asiodu IV
• COVID-19 mRNA Vaccination in Lactation: Assessment of Adverse Events and Vaccine Related Antibodies in Mother-Infant Dyads.
  Frontiers in immunology 2021 Golan Y, Prahl M, Cassidy AG, Gay C, Wu AHB, Jigmeddagva U, Lin CY, Gonzalez VJ, Basilio E, Chidboy MA, Warrier L, Buarpung S, Li L, Murtha AP, Asiodu IV, Ahituv N, Flaherman VJ, Gaw SL
• Infant Outcomes Following Maternal Infection With Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2): First Report From the Pregnancy Coronavirus Outcomes Registry (PRIORITY) Study.
  Clinical infectious diseases : an official publication of the Infectious Diseases Society of America 2021 Flaherman VJ, Afshar Y, Boscardin WJ, Keller RL, H Mardy A, Prahl MK, T Phillips C, Asiodu IV, Berghella V, Chambers BD, Crear-Perry J, Jamieson DJ, Jacoby VL, Gaw SL
• Reimagining Perinatal Mental Health: An Expansive Vision For Structural Change.
  Health affairs (Project Hope) 2021 Foster VA, Harrison JM, Williams CR, Asiodu IV, Ayala S, Getrouw-Moore J, Davis NK, Davis W, Mahdi IK, Nedhari A, Niles PM, Peprah S, Perritt JB, McLemore MR, Mask Jackson F
• Global research priorities for COVID-19 in maternal, reproductive and child health: Results of an international survey.
  PloS one 2021 Etti M, Alger J, Salas SP, Saggers R, Ramdin T, Endler M, Gemzell-Danielsson K, Alfvén T, Ahmed Y, Callejas A, Eskenazi D, Khalil A, Le Doare K, Maternal, Newborn and Child Health Working Group of the…
• Risk of pregnancy loss before 20 weeks' gestation in study participants with COVID-19.
  American journal of obstetrics and gynecology 2021 Jacoby VL, Murtha A, Afshar Y, Gaw SL, Asiodu I, Tolosa J, Norton ME, Boscardin WJ, Flaherman V
• Achieving Breastfeeding Equity and Justice in Black Communities: Past, Present, and Future.
  Breastfeeding medicine : the official journal of the Academy of Breastfeeding Medicine 2021 Asiodu IV, Bugg K, Palmquist AEL
• Breastfeeding in Incarcerated Settings in the United States: A National Survey of Frequency and Policies.
  Breastfeeding medicine : the official journal of the Academy of Breastfeeding Medicine 2021 Asiodu IV, Beal L, Sufrin C
• Black Maternal Health Research Re- Envisioned: Best Practices for the Conduct of Research With, For, and By Black Mamas
  Harvard Law and Policy Review 2020 Black Mamas Matter Alliance Research Working Group Aina, A, Asiodu, IV, Castillo, P, et al.
• The COVID-19 liquid gold rush: Critical perspectives of human milk and SARS-CoV-2 infection.
  American journal of human biology : the official journal of the Human Biology Council 2020 Palmquist AEL, Asiodu IV, Quinn EA
• Reflecting on Equity in Perinatal Care During a Pandemic.
  Health equity 2020 Niles PM, Asiodu IV, Crear-Perry J, Julian Z, Lyndon A, McLemore MR, Planey AM, Scott KA, Vedam S
• Racial and Ethnic Inequities in Postpartum Pain Evaluation and Management.
  Obstetrics and gynecology 2019 Johnson JD, Asiodu IV, McKenzie CP, Tucker C, Tully KP, Bryant K, Verbiest S, Stuebe AM
• Race, Research, and Women's Health: Best Practice Guidelines for Investigators.
  Obstetrics and gynecology 2019 McLemore MR, Asiodu I, Crear-Perry J, Davis DA, Drew M, Hardeman RR, Mendez DD, Roberts L, Scott KA
• Priorities for Contraception and Lactation Among Breast Pump-Dependent Mothers of Premature Infants in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit.
  Breastfeeding medicine : the official journal of the Academy of Breastfeeding Medicine 2019 Rossman B, Asiodu I, Hoban R, Patel AL, Engstrom JL, Medina-Poeliniz C, Meier PP
• Reintegrating modern birth practice within ancient birth process: What high cesarean rates ignore about physiologic birth.
  American Journal of Human Biology 2019 Julienne N. Rutherford, Ifeyinwa V. Asiodu, Kylea L. Liese
• Infant Feeding Decision-Making and the Influences of Social Support Persons Among First-Time African American Mothers.
  Maternal and child health journal 2017 Asiodu IV, Waters CM, Dailey DE, Lyndon A
• Barriers to Human Milk Feeding at Discharge of Very-Low-Birth-Weight Infants: Maternal Goal Setting as a Key Social Factor.
  Breastfeeding medicine : the official journal of the Academy of Breastfeeding Medicine 2016 Fleurant E, Schoeny M, Hoban R, Asiodu IV, Riley B, Meier PP, Bigger H, Patel AL
• Barriers to Human Milk Feeding at Discharge of Very Low-Birthweight Infants: Evaluation of Neighborhood Structural Factors.
  Breastfeeding medicine : the official journal of the Academy of Breastfeeding Medicine 2016 Riley B, Schoeny M, Rogers L, Asiodu IV, Bigger HR, Meier PP, Patel AL
• What Does Infant Feeding Mean to African American Women and Their Support Persons.
  Journal of Obstetric Gynecologic & Neonatal Nursing 2015 Ifeyinwa V. Asiodu
• Breastfeeding and use of social media among first-time African American mothers.
  Journal of obstetric, gynecologic, and neonatal nursing : JOGNN 2015 Asiodu IV, Waters CM, Dailey DE, Lee KA, Lyndon A
• Got milk? A look at breastfeeding from an African American perspective.
  Issues in mental health nursing 2011 Asiodu I, Flaskerud JH