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Dr Lisa I Iezzoni

In 1998, Dr. Lisa Iezzoni was the first woman to be appointed professor in the department of medicine at Beth Israel Hospital in Boston, MA.

At 16 years old, Gitanjali Rao has invented a device to detect lead in water (inspired by the crisis in Flint, Michigan), an anti-bullying app, and was named TIME’s first “Kid of the Year” in 2020, among other notable accomplishments.

Dr Ada Cheung

Associate Professor Ada Cheung is a renowned endocrinologist who is a global leader in transgender health.

Elizabeth M Conard

Abortion rights advocate who helped start the Charlotte Planned Parenthood chapter

Dr Ida Sophia Scudder

In 1902, Dr. Ida Sophia Scudder founded the Christian Medical College and Hospital in Vellore, India.

Emily Wayland Dinwiddie

Emily Wayland Dinwiddie was an American social worker and reformer.

Lila Meade Valentine

Lila Meade Valentine was an American suffragist, education reformer, and public-health advocate.

Mary-Cooke Branch Munford

Mary-Cooke Branch Munford was an advocate of woman suffrage, interracial cooperation, education, health, and labor reforms.

Jane Wadsworth

Statistician who applied her skills to data coming from a wide range of topics relating to medical research. She devoted the latter part of her life to combatting the AIDS epidemic by constructing and carrying out surveys to establish the pattern of HIV infection in Britain.

Dr Kate Campbell Hurd-Mead

In 1891, Dr. Hurd-Mead established the Evening Dispensary for Working Women and Girls, the first institution in Baltimore to employ women physicians.