Australian doctor; director of the Victorian Health Department’s section of infant welfare 1926-1946. She wrote books on the care of infants and young children and her 1937 report for the National Health and Medical Research Council prompted government funding of the Lady Gowrie Child Centres.
NASA Deputy Associate Administrator, Space Technology Mission Directorate
Dr Jenkins is a woman of Gunditjama descent and an advocate for gender equity, Aboriginal health and education.
In 1949, Dr. Newcomb marshaled the community to raise funds for a hospital in rural Wisconsin, to improve the medical care available to all residents.
The first doctor specializing in pediatrics to practice in Delaware
Professor MaryAnn Bin-Sallik was a proud Djaru Elder and the first Indigenous Australian woman to receive a doctorate, in 1989
In 1931, Dr. Myrtelle Canavan discovered the condition now known as “Canavan’s disease,” a progressive, degenerative disorder of the central nervous system characterized by spongy changes in the brain.
Louise Pearce, M.D., a physician and pathologist, was one of the foremost women scientists of the early 20th century. Her research with pathologist Wade Hampton Brown led to a cure for trypanosomiasis (African Sleeping sickness) in 1919.
Silkwood was a chemical technician at the Kerr-McGee’s plutonium fuels production plant in Crescent, Oklahoma, and a member of the Oil, Chemical, and Atomic Workers’ Union. She was also an activist who was critical of plant safety and her suspicious death remains unsolved.
Irish nationalist and social advocate