Georgina McCready
A founding member of the New South Wales Nurses Association (NSWNA) in 1931, she was its first Honorary Secretary and the first woman to hold such a position in an industrial organisation in Australia.
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Daphne Goulston
Daphne Goulston was a Cancer Research Fellow at the University of Sydney 1928-1931, 1932-1934, at the Radium Institute London 1931-1932 and Research Associate in Biochemistry at the University of Sydney 1946-1949.
Beatrice Gubbins
Irish watercolour artist and traveller
Ellen Barron
Ellen Barron worked at the Queensland Government Baby Clinics from 1918. From 1923-1939 she was superintendent of the Baby Clinics and started a training course for infant nurses. She was a foundation member and trustee of the Nurses’ Rest Home and Benevolent Fund.
Dr Jenefer Blackwell
Jenefer Blackwell is renowned for her research into host susceptibility and resistance to infectious diseases, particularly those from tropical parasitic diseases including leishmaniasis. Her discoveries facilitate genome-based approaches to the development of vaccines.
Gertrude Rubinstein
Australian schizophrenia researcher
Isla Blomfield
Isla Blomfield played a pivotal role in neonatal welfare education and care in Sydney
Florence Chatfield
Florence Chatfield was Matron and then Superintendent of the Diamantina Hospital for Chronic Diseases, Queensland from 1900-1934. She was also supervisor and organiser of the Queensland Government Baby Clinics from their inception in 1918.
Dr Gertrude Mead
Gertrude Mead completed her medical studies at the University of Melbourne (1897). The following two years were spent working at a children’s hospital in England, at a women’s hospital in Dublin and as a house surgeon at Leith in Scotland. Upon returning to Australia in 1901, Mead ran a private practice from her home in Perth.
Dr Ida Gertrude Halley
Ida Halley became a medical inspector of schools in Tasmania (1906) and from 1910 held a similar position in Sydney where she lectured on hygiene at the Teachers’ College. In 1913 she established the medical branch of the Education Department in South Australia.