Dr Alice Bunker Stockham
Obstetrician and gynecologist from Chicago and the fifth woman to become a doctor in the United States.
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Mary Bolton
Irish alcholism counsellor
Dr Susan La Flesche Picotte
Pioneering Native American doctor from the Omaha tribe. She made history as the first Indigenous woman to earn a medical degree, and she tirelessly campaigned for public health and land rights for the Omaha tribe.
Marie Fleming
Irish campaigner for assisted suicide
Kitty Seville
New Zealand health and welfare worker
Amparo Poch y Gascón
Amparo Poch y Gascón was a significant Spanish figure in the fields of anarchism, pacifism, medicine, and activism during the Spanish Civil War.
Hulda Shipanga
Hulda Kamboi Shipanga was a Namibian nurse, midwife, and advisor to the Namibian Ministry of Health.
Florence Sabin
Florence Rena Sabin was the first woman to hold a full professorship at the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, the first woman elected to the National Academy of Sciences, and the first woman to lead a department at the Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research. In her retirement years, she transitioned into a role as a public health activist in Colorado.
Dr Martha Ripley
Influential American physician, suffragist, and reformer, particularly known for her work in advancing women’s health care and reproductive rights.
Brigid Thornton
Irish public health doctor and first female commissioned officer in the Irish Free State army