Lin Qiaozhi
20th century Chinese doctor
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Dr Emily Stowe
Suffragist and the first female physician to practice medicine in Canada
Dr Dora Akunyili
Director-General of National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control (NAFDAC) of Nigeria from 2001 to 2008
Franziska Tiburtius
1800s German physician
Gisella Perl
Romanian Jewish gynecologist deported to Auschwitz concentration camp in 1944, where she helped hundreds of women, serving as an inmate gynecologist.
Dr Dorothy Klenke Nash
American neurosurgeon
Dr Fe del Mundo
Filipina pediatrician Fe Villanueva del Mundo established the Philippines’ first pediatric hospital and, over six decades, helped shape the country’s modern healthcare system for children.
Florence Mnumzana
South African nurse and anti-apartheid activist
Frances Rix Ames
South African neurologist, psychiatrist and human rights activist
Anandibai Joshi
Indian woman who earned her medical degree in the U.S. in the 1880s