Margaret Caro
New Zealand dentist, Seventh-day Adventist and social reformer
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Mary Rymill
1800s New Zealand missionary, teacher and nurse
Dr Katalin Karikó
Nobel Prize winner Karikó’s research and perseverance proved that mRNA vaccines were possible and paved the way for the Moderna and Pfizer-BioNTech vaccines to end the Covid-19 Pandemic.
Bridget Dirrane
Irish nurse, centenarian and memoirist
Mary Crowley
Irish nurse and educator
Dr Mary-Claire King
Dr. King’s important discovery of the BRCA1 gene in 1990 transformed the medical world for breast cancer.
Sarah Higgins
New Zealand midwife, community leader and writer
Dr Barbara J McNeil
In 1988, Dr. Barbara J. McNeil was the founding head of the department of health care policy at Harvard Medical School.
Mary Cuddie
1800s New Zealand farmer, midwife and shopkeeper
Dr Alice Drew Chenoweth
From her small-town beginnings, she eventually made her way to the nation’s capital, serving in a number of distinguished federal government positions at a time when few women held such posts.