Sarah Tarleton Colvin
American nurse, author and National Women’s Party president
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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.
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.
Sarah Emma Edmonds
Served in the US Civil War disguised as a man
Dr Dorothy Mann
American public health expert, consumer advocate, and civic activist
Adeline Blanchard Tyler
American nurse, missionary, and activist known for her nursing work during the American Civil War.
Wendy Wamsley Taines
American army corporal who served as a medic during the Persian Gulf War
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.
Dr Grace Boelke
One of the first two women medical graduates of the University of Sydney, 1893.
Alice Reeves
Matron of Dr Steevens’ Hospital, Dublin