Recipients - Health e-Learning

Since 2009, we have been proud to support outstanding students through our scholarship program. Each recipient has demonstrated exceptional dedication, academic achievement, and a commitment to making a difference in their communities. This section celebrates their hard work and success, recognizing the bright futures they continue to build. We invite you to explore the list of past recipients who embody the values and vision of our scholarship program.

2019

Aster Tang small Aster Tang

Aster, a native of Singapore, has a background in science and a Masters in environmental policy. She has been volunteering as a breastfeeding counsellor both online and in-person through various organizations. She is passionate about helping families navigate the peripartum period, which is mentally, emotionally, and physically challenging for many. Aster is also a community interpreter, where she helps families with limited English proficiency navigate the health and social system. The rewarding experience of seeing parents gain confidence in breastfeeding spurred Aster to take it a step further and delve into clinical components of lactation support through the IBCLC certification.

Health e-Learning is proud to have supported Aster to reach her goal and she has now successfully achieved certification as an IBCLC in 2021. Congratulations Aster!

2018

Nguyen Dao Nguyen Nhat Vu Dao

Nguyen is a qualified Breastfeeding Counsellor of The Australian Breastfeeding Association. She received her Cert IV in Nursing from the Australian Catholic University in 2012. However, her passion is not only about nursing, but also helping other members in her Vietnamese community, especially those who find English a language barrier.

Having a linguistics background, she decided to study Master of Translation and Interpreting and got her degree in 2015. The lack of breastfeeding and parenting information support in the Vietnamese community has urged her to research, translate and write related articles into Vietnamese. She has been counselling and helping thousands of Vietnamese mothers and families with breastfeeding issues, as well as weaning and parenting issues.

Nguyen is now working as an Interpreter and Translator while teaching Interpreting at Diploma level.

Health e-Learning is proud to have supported Nguyen to reach her goal and she has now successfully achieved certification as an IBCLC in 2021. Congratulations Nguyen!

2017

Dr. Faten M Tamim

Dr. Faten M Tamim (Amman, Jordan)

Faten M Tamim is a consultant in Maternal and Child Nutrition, got her PhD in 2017. She is a specialist in Maternal and Child Health and got her MSc in 2008. She has 20 years experience at Ministry of Health as midwife, supervisor, mentor, educator and breastfeeding trainer. She founded the first private breastfeeding clinic in Jordan in 2014, as she realized the huge gap in exclusive breastfeeding in the first 6 months after birth.

In 2016, she founded The Breastfeeding Support Association to raise awareness among the whole community among the Jordanian society and to be the first formal umbrella that deal with the private health care system as Ministry of Health is dealing with the governmental health care system. With the other members of the association, she works on providing breastfeeding training among the health professionals to help in supporting mothers who give birth in private hospitals.

Health e-Learning proudly supported Faten's goal by helping her study during 2017/18 and she successfully achieve certification as an IBCLC in 2018. Congratulations Faten!

2016

Fionnuala Cooney

Fionnuala Cooney (Dublin, Ireland)

Fionnuala is married with two teenage sons. She is a medical doctor and currently works as a consultant in Public Health Medicine within the Health Service Executive in Dublin, Ireland.

Ireland has one of the lowest breastfeeding rates in the world and Fionnuala regards this as a serious public health problem. Fionnuala has been involved in breastfeeding-related research and has been contributing to both policy and clinical support for breastfeeding in Ireland. She is an active member of the BFHI National Breastfeeding Committee and she has also been participating at the local level with both Cuidiú and La Leche League, the two main NGOs involved in volunteer peer breastfeeding counselling services in Ireland.

Fionnuala believes that qualifying as an IBCLC will increase her sphere of influence at the national level in the areas of policy and clinical practice. Her aim is to work with the breastfeeding community to re-establish breastfeeding as the societal norm in Ireland.

Health e-Learning is proud to have supported Fionnuala to reach her goal and she has now successfully achieved certification as an IBCLC in 2019. Congratulations Fionnuala!

2014

Chelsie Robertson

Chelsie Robertson (South Auckland, New Zealand)

Chelsie lives in South Auckland, New Zealand, with her husband and 3 young sons’ ages 5, 3 and 1. She has previously been involved with Breastfeeding New Zealand and LLL in a peer counsellor capacity as a mother to mother support person. This sparked Chelsie’s passion for growing her lactation community in New Zealand. Currently she works as a self-employed primary care midwife, in partnership with women and families, facilitating normal birthing and postnatal care.

Upon successful completion of the IBCLC exam, Chelsie hopes to explore the possibilities of milk banking and milk sharing in New Zealand, focus on being a voice, and advocate for the breastfeeding women around New Zealand.

Health e-Learning proudly supported Chelsie's goal by helping her study during 2014/15 and she successfully achieve certification as an IBCLC in 2015. Congratulations Chelsie!

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