Edna Brown
A Gunditjmara Elder, Aunty Edna was the driving force behind the Aboriginal funeral fund, supporting the right to a dignified burial for her people.
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Effie Meehan
Greek-Australian activist who works to give culturally and linguistically diverse people with a disability a voice in the community.
Dr Virginia Holsinger
Virginia H. Holsinger was an American chemist known for her research on dairy products and food security issues.
Carmen Méndez
Founder and Managing Director of More Than Support, a disability services agency providing support to people with physical and mental disabilities.
Anushka Phal
Anushka is dedicated to creating a safe and inclusive space for people from diverse backgrounds to seek accessible and culturally informed mental health care.
Susan Ellenberg
When FDA and CBER created its own Division of Biostatistics and Epidemiology, Ellenberg was selected as its first director, a position she held from 1993-2004. Her work at FDA was characterized by a commitment to vaccine safety accompanied by an insistence on more publications by regulators in professional journals to make clear not only what was known, but also what was not known, about the safety of children’s vaccines.
Dr Ruth L Kirschstein
In 1974 she returned to NIH as the Director of the National Institute of General Medical Sciences, the first woman to hold an institute directorship, and in 1993 she became Deputy Director of NIH, a position she carried out for the next decade.
Sharon Smith Holston
When Sharon Smith Holston retired as Deputy Commissioner for International and Constituent Relations in 2001, she left a rich legacy of administrative service to the Food and Drug Administration.
Ruth deForest Lamb
Her untiring efforts to engage and acknowledge the activism of women’s groups in support of a new statute bore fruit as women shaped many provisions of the new law passed to replace the Wiley Act: The 1938 Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act.
Dr Effie Alberta Read
Effie Alberta Read, Ph. D., M. D., one of very few women in the FDA’s Bureau of Chemistry when she joined the agency in 1907, was among the best trained analysts when she arrived.