Mary Rymill
1800s New Zealand missionary, teacher and nurse
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Helen Wilson
1800s New Zealand nurse and community leader
Eliza Wohlers
1800s New Zealand missionary, nurse and teacher
Margaret Caro
New Zealand dentist, Seventh-day Adventist and social reformer
Dr Katalin Karikó
Nobel Prize winner Karikó’s research and perseverance proved that mRNA vaccines were possible and paved the way for the Moderna and Pfizer-BioNTech vaccines to end the Covid-19 Pandemic.
Bridget Dirrane
Irish nurse, centenarian and memoirist
Mary Crowley
Irish nurse and educator
Dr Mary-Claire King
Dr. King’s important discovery of the BRCA1 gene in 1990 transformed the medical world for breast cancer.
Sarah Higgins
New Zealand midwife, community leader and writer
Dr Barbara J McNeil
In 1988, Dr. Barbara J. McNeil was the founding head of the department of health care policy at Harvard Medical School.