Robina Cameron
New Zealand district nurse, community leader and nursing inspector
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Monica McKenzie
Monica McKenzie made a profound contribution to dietetic services in New Zealand.
Lois Suckling
New Zealand optician and family planning reformer
Joan Cochran
New Zealand social reformer, sex educator and teacher
Dr Mary Redmond
Irish solicitor and founder of the Irish Hospice Foundation
Dr Virginia M Alexander
African-American physician, researcher, and public health advocate who broke significant barriers in medicine and academia.
Modjeska Monteith Simkins
Influential civil rights activist and public health advocate
Dr Helen Rodríguez Trías
Pioneering American pediatrician, educator, and women’s rights activist.
Diamanda Galás
American musician and singer-songwriter who passionately campaigns for AIDS education and the rights of those affected.
Elizabeth Gurley Flynn
American labor leader, activist, and feminist. Flynn played a key role in the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW) and co-founded the American Civil Liberties Union.