Dr Audrey Forbes Manley
Dr. Audrey Forbes Manley was the first African American woman to achieve the rank of Assistant Surgeon General (Rear Admiral).
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Dr Deborah Prothrow-Stith
Massachusetts’ first woman Commissioner of Public Health, as well as its youngest, where she established the US’s first Violence Prevention Office at a state health department.
Dr Barbara Barlow
In 1988, Dr. Barbara Barlow founded the Injury Free Coalition for Kids.
Alice Mary Bush
Important figure in the development of paediatrics in New Zealand
Dr Bernadine Healy
In 1991, Dr. Bernadine Healy became the first woman to direct the National Institutes of Health.
Elizabeth Lee Hazen
Nystatin, one of the first effective antifungal medicines, was discovered in 1950 by two women scientists: Elizabeth Lee Hazen (1885–1975) and Rachel Fuller Brown (1898–1980)
Dr Alice Hamilton
Alice Hamilton promoted “industrial medicine” and laws to protect employees from dangerous substances in the workplace.
Dr Virginia Apgar
Her simple, rapid method for assessing newborn viability, the “Apgar score,” has long been standard practice.
Mary Lasker
Medical philanthropist, political strategist, and health activist Mary Lasker acted as the catalyst for the rapid growth of the biomedical research enterprise in the United States after World War II.
Mabel Wilson
New Zealand domestic worker and community leader