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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Aileen Fitzpatrick
Director of the Board of Social Study and Training, New South Wales.
Brenda Ann Kenneally
American photojournalist
Isabel Vericat Núñez
Spanish-Mexican lawyer, writer, researcher and translator.
Kathy Fletcher
American biologist and environmental activist
Cecile Hansen
Elected chair of the Duwamish since 1975
Dr Dorothy Mann
American public health expert, consumer advocate, and civic activist
Lillian S Spear
Lillian E. Anderson Sylten Spear was an important player in Snohomish County’s public power movement in the US state of Washington.
Gertrude Sanford Legendre
In 1944, she became the first American woman in uniform to be captured in Germany during an unauthorized visit to the front near Luxembourg.
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.