Dr Hilda Kincaid
Hilda Kincaid was medical officer (child welfare) for the Melbourne City Council from 1927 until her retirement in 1952
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Edna Shaw
Edna Shaw was a Matron at the Women’s Hospital in Crown Street Sydney from 1936 to 1952.
Kudzai Kanhutu
Zimbabwean doctor and associate professor Kudzai Kanhutu is a powerful advocate for health systems and gender equity in Australia.
Dr Cathleen Monaghan
Missionary Sister of St Columban and physician who worked in Hong Kong from 1949 until her death in 1985
Dr Hildred Butler
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.
Dr Catherine Hamlin
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
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.
Dorothy Durdin
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.
Dorothy MacArthur-Onslow
Leader in New South Wales Girl Guides, Sydney area hospitals and the University of Western Sydney
Dora Lush
Dora Lush was a bacteriological research fellow at the Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research in the 1930s and 1940s.