Elsie Scott

Publish health nurse for the San Juan Islands, a remote, rural archipelago in the Salish Sea of the Pacific Northwest between the Washington mainland and Canada’s Vancouver Island.

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Dr Edyth Hull Schoenrich

Dr. Edyth Schoenrich was the first woman to be appointed to the American Board of Preventive Medicine and played a leading role in the development of one of the premier preventive medicine programs in the US at Johns Hopkins.

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Dr Martha May Eliot

Dr. Martha May Eliot was the first woman to be elected president of the American Public Health Association and the first woman to be awarded the American Public Health Association’s Sedgewick Memorial Medal.

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Dr Ethel Collins Dunham

1957: Dr. Ethel Collins Dunham was the first woman pediatrician to receive the American Pediatric Society’s most prestigious award, the John Howland Medal.

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Dr Helen Mary Mayo

Helen Mayo opened a practice in Adelaide in 1906 specializing in midwifery and the health of women and children. She lectured at the University of Adelaide 1926-1934 and founded the Mothers’ and Babies’ Health Association and the Mareeba Babies’ Hospital.

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Dr Esther Clayson Pohl Lovejoy

Dr. Lovejoy was the first woman to direct a city department of health, the Portland Board of Health, in Oregon and was co-founder and first director of the Medical Women’s International Association.

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Dr Ruth Boynton

Ruth Boynton was a physician, researcher, and administrator who spent almost her entire career at the University of Minnesota (U of M). She worked in public health and student health services at a time (the mid-twentieth century) when there were few women in either of those fields.

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Theresa Ericksen

After graduating from Northwestern Hospital’s School of Nursing in 1894, Theresa Ericksen led a life of service as a healer, teacher, and promoter of public health and nursing education. Her legacy has ties to the Minnesota Nursing Association, the Veterans of Foreign Wars, Christmas Seals, and Fort Snelling National Cemetery.

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Shimeji Kanazawa

Nisei activist who was the community liaison between the Japanese community and the military government in Hawai’i during World War II. She later supported community causes for the elderly like Project Dana.

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