Hildred Butler investigated the causes of infections during and after childbirth while working at the Baker Medical Research Institute and later the (Royal) Women’s Hospital from 1928 to 1971. She recorded her findings in twenty-one papers published both in Australia and overseas.
Catherine Hamlin and her husband pioneered work to assist and eliminate obstetric fistula in Ethiopia, and over six decades established the Addis Ababa Fistula Hospital.
Ellen Gould was Matron and Superintendent of the training school of Sydney Hospital from 1891-1898 . In 1900 she was appointed Lady Superintendent with the newly formed Army Nursing Service.
Joan Durdin, author of They Became Nurses: A History of Nursing in South Australia, 1836-1980 (1991) and Eleven Thousand Nurses: A History of Nursing Education at the Royal Adelaide Hospital 1889-1993 (1999) is a nursing historian and as a nurse educator has contributed much to the advancement of nursing through the development of advanced education in the higher education sector.
Leader in New South Wales Girl Guides, Sydney area hospitals and the University of Western Sydney
Dora Lush was a bacteriological research fellow at the Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research in the 1930s and 1940s.
Nurse Dora Baudinet founded the Sunshine Association of Tasmania in 1938, an organisation dedicated to providing convalescent care to underprivileged and isolated children.
Elizabeth Grant was a pharmacy proprietor and manager for many years. She was also a Member of the House of Assembly, Australian Capital Territory, 1979-1982.
Dr Angeline Achariya is an innovative leader in Australia’s agriculture and sustainable food industries.
Dr Linny Kimly Phuong is a respected paediatric infectious diseases physician, researcher, public health communicator, and community advocate.