Elizabeth-Anne Stuart Abell
Elizabeth-Anne Abell was a key figure in Queensland nursing from the 1940s. She was Matron at Royal Children’s Hospital in Brisbane (1961-1968) and Chief Nursing Officer of the Queensland Department of Health.
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Cynthia Stuhlmiller
Cynthia Stuhlmiller was appointed Professor of Mental Health Nursing at Flinders University of South Australia in 2000. Her areas of interest included mental health nursing, traumatic stress and qualitative research.
Mary Malahlela-Xakana
Malahele-Xakana became the first Black woman to register as a medical doctor in South Africa in 1947. She was also a founder member of the YWCA, a member of the Women’s Peace movement and a member of the Fort Hare University Council.
Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma
South African politician, medical doctor and anti-apartheid activist
Eileen Parry
Eileen Parry joined the Australian Women’s Army Service (AWAS) in 1941. In August 1943 Parry was made Assistant Controller of the AWAS, Tasmania and she had reached the rank of Lieutenant Colonel when she was discharged in 1946.
Dr Harriet Ngubane
South African social anthropologist best known for her work on Zulu belief systems
Dr Gladys Tantaquidgeon
Mohegan medicine woman, anthropologist, author, elder and tribal council member Gladys Tantaquidgeon co-founded the Tantaquidgeon Indian Museum, the oldest to be owned and operated by Native Americans, in 1931.
Lucy Hobbs Taylor
The first woman to graduate from dental school and to receive a doctorate in dentistry.
Dr Sivaramakrishna Iyer Padmavati
Burmese-Indian cardiologist
Matilde Hidalgo
Ecuadorian physician, poet, and activist, the first woman to exercise the right to vote in Latin America, and the first to receive a Doctorate in Medicine.