Wikipedia:WikiProject Women in Red/Medicine

Australia

• Michele Adair (Class of 1979) – Australian Democrat and independent candidate, consumer and community advocate ^[1]
• Madelyn Kelman AM (née Lyn Jones) – Chairman of the Queensland Country Women's Association; Member of the Rural Health Advisory Council; Awarded AM for service to Queensland CWA and the community of Emerald^[2][3]

US

• Denise Garibaldi, anti-steroids activist, , , ,
• Ida Greathouse AIDS activist^[4], inducted into the Chicago LGBT Hall of Fame^[5]
• Patricia Navarro mother of ACT UP NY member Ray Navarro, who died of AIDS complications in November 1990. During the eight months that she was in New York while her son was ill, she joined ACT UP NY and the PWAC Mother's Support Group. After returning to her home in Simi Valley California, she became an advocate for prevention education and other services in the HIV/AIDS community.^[6]
• Karin Timour writer and teacher about health insurance and entitlements for people with HIV founding member of the insurance and healthcare access committee of ACT UP/NY.^[7]

Australia

• Dr Kathleen Cuningham Pioneer of Breast Cancer treatment in Australia^[8]

Brazil

• Michelle Lucinda de Oliveira Liver cancers: link between liver resection and metastasis development

China

• Jingyi Shi Genetics of acute myeloid leukemia
• Liu Zhihua (medical researcher), cancer research,

Côte d'Ivoire

• Cho N'Din Catherine Boni-Cisse - Characterization of haemophilus influenzae of isolated strains of meningitis

Colombia

• Lina Gallego, cancer genomics

Cuba

• Marlein Miranda Cona Development of radiopharmaceuticals to detect and treat malignant tumors

Italy

• Paola Tiberia Zanna Melanogenesis: Expression of the MC1R gene

Japan

• Mio Ozawa, nutritional epidemiology
• Barbro Beck-Friis — バルブロ・ベック＝フリース [ja]
• Atsuko Takagi, molecular genetics, lipoproteinmetabolism,
• 三宅幸子 [ja] (Sachiko Miyake, https://www.scopus.com/authid/detail.uri?authorId=7202930125, https://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=Sachiko+Miyake)
• 三神美和 [ja]
• 伊吹裕子 [ja]
• 冲永寛子 [ja]
• 大野京子 [ja]
• 岡本道雄 [ja]
• 岩崎恵美子 [ja]
• 手塚圭子 [ja]
• 木村昌由美 [ja]
• 水島広子 [ja]
• 江馬蘭斎 [ja]
• 海野けい子 (薬学者) [ja]
• 田中利恵 [ja]
• 福田千晶 [ja]
• 薬師寺道代 [ja]
• 貫戸朋子 [ja]
• 香川綾 [ja]
• 高橋裕子 (医学者) [ja]

Mexico

• Berta González Frankenberger speech and voice processing in neonates and premature babies

Mongolia

• Enkhmaa Davaasambuu, maternal health ^[9]

Netherlands

• Elisabeth de Vries, see the 2010 Biography (Lancet): https://web.archive.org/web/20110116222441/https://www.thelancet.com/education/at-the-limits/oncology-2010/speaker-biographies (takes time to load), the Google Scholar Profile: https://scholar.google.de/citations?user=Wi9CZ1kAAAAJ (h-Index currently=136, in part due to membership in Early Breast Cancer Trialists' Collaborative Group, listed at end of Relevance of breast cancer hormone receptors and other factors to the efficacy of adjuvant tamoxifen: patient-level meta-analysis of randomised trials) and her nl Wiki article (using her informal nl name nl:Liesbeth de Vries)

Peru

• Cecilia Gonzales-Marin oral infections and medical complications in pregnant women

Serbia

• Vana Pešić identification of urine proteins, renal disease

Singapore

• Jingmei Li, human genetics

South Africa

• Nonhlanhla Dlamani African traditional medicine used in the treatment of Kaposi's sarcoma

Spain

• María José Alonso Fernández, pharmacologist,
• Isabel Weights, Parkinson's disease

Sudan

• Adila Elobeid

UK

• Imogen Evans, author of Better Treatments together with Hazel Thornton, Paul Glasziou, and Cochrane Collaboration founder Iain Chalmers. Health advocate and research in health advocacy
• Hazel Thornton, author of Better Treatments together with Imogen Evans, Paul Glasziou, and Cochrane Collaboration founder Iain Chalmers. Health advocate and research in health advocacy

US

• Sandra Burke Ph.D., cardiovascular physiologist, former pre-clinical cardiovascular researcher at Abbott Vascular's Research and Advanced Development; developed drug-coated stent intravascular stents for treatment of restenosis^[10]
• Carole Hutchinson Co-Lead, Project REACH, Irving Institute for Clinical and Translational Research Dr. Hutchinson is an Adjunct Assistant Professor in the Sociomedical Sciences Department of the Mailman School of Public Health. She is also an anthropologist.^[11]
• Pooja Khatri, stroke researcher and vascular neurologist. She is the chair of Neurology Department at Yale School of Medicine and has an endowed professorship there (Albert E. Kent Professor of Neurology). She has led several large-scale clinical trials and is an expert on clinical trial design. She has been a co-director of the NIH StrokeNet, which coordinates all NIH-funded clinical trials in stroke, since it began in 2013. She served as the elected Secretary on the board of the World Stroke Organization, and she served on the European Stroke Organization's Guidelines Board.^[12] In 2026, the American Stroke Association recognized her with the William M. Feinberg Award for Excellence in Clinical Stroke, which "recognizes significant contributions to the investigation and management of clinical research in stroke."^[13][14][15] She is known for having shown that endovascular therapy for stroke is time-dependent^[16] (and the time-dependence chart she published in that paper is occasionally called the “Khatri curve”^[17]). She is also known for having led a trial that (despite being halted early) showed it was unlikely that alteplase is effective for mild strokes.^[18] (other references: ^[19], ^[20], ^[21])
• Eleanor Dewey Mason, early metabolism researcher ; ;

Hungary

• Katalin Czondor

Tunisia

• Farah Ouechtati

Australia

• Margaret Mary Henderson (1915-2017) – Consultant Physician and Consultant Emeritus, Royal Melbourne Hospital (also attended Melbourne Girls Grammar)^[22] ; ; ;
• Elizabeth Robyn Mason – Director of the Australasian Medical Publishing Company Pty Ltd (also attended The Friends' School, Hobart)^[23]
• Winifred Barbara Meredith – Pioneering medical practitioner specialising in child and infant care
• Alison Mary Street AO – Head, Haemostasis and Haemophilia Units, The Alfred Hospital, Melbourne; Honorary Clinical Associate Professor, Department of Pathology and Immunology and Department of Medicine, Monash University, Alfred Hospital^[24]
• Barbara Skeete Workman – Professor of Geriatric Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, Nursing and Health Sciences, Monash University and Southern Health at Kingston Centre Campus^[25]

Canada

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Israel

• Martha Dirnfeld professor, fertility doctor

Panama

• Cynthia Guy, , founder of Instituto de Implantes Cocleares,

Sweden

• Christina Lindholm - internationally acclaimed professor of Clinical Nursing and world leading expert on wound healing. Currently senior professor of Sophiahemmet University in Sweden, former Director of Research at the Karolinska University Hospital.

UK

• Una Coales - NHS GP, past Secretary of Conservative Health, National Council Representative for the Royal College of General Practitioners (2009-12, 2013-16) and runner-up for President of that college in 2009, British Medical Association sessional GP subcommittee representative (2013-2016), Channel 4 TV presenter of the Turn Back Your Body Series (2006), Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh in ENT surgery and in general surgery (by exam 1999, 2000 respectively), Fellow of the Royal College of General Practitioners (2010), highly commended author BMA 2005 and 2006 and author of 17 books on medical topics for both doctors and the public.
• Christine Evans (urologist) - surgeon, carried out charitable medical work in Botswana, named hospital doctor of the year in 1997, presented with medal by the British Association of Urological Surgeons in 2007, presented radio programme as The Irritated Consultant, appeared on Channel Five programme.^{[26][27][28][29][30][31]}

US

• Catalina Garcia, anesthesiologist and community leader in Dallas.^[32]
• Wanda Gonsalves, oral and public health physician, activist for underserved communitites in health 1, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8
• Jeanne Montgomery Smith the first woman physician at the University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics' internal medicine department^[33]
• Gladys Pumariega Soler (1930-1993), pediatrician, Florida Women's Hall of Fame
• Alison Stuebe professor UNC Gillings School of Global Public Health and UNC School of Medicine^[34],^[35]
• Christine Wu (scientist), professor of pediatric dentistry.

United States

• Roshan Bastani professor in the UCLA Fielding School of Public Health and Director of the UCLA Kaiser Permanente Center for Health Equity and the UCLA Center for Prevention Research. Also social and health psychologist.^[36]
• Odette Bolano President and CEO, St. Alphonsus Health System
• Lora Branch public health administrator and educator
• Elizabeth D'Amico, "nationally recognized) for her work developing, implementing, and evaluating interventions for adolescents."^[37]
• Elizabeth Miller MD, PhD Division Director, Adolescent and Young Adult Medicine and Professor of Pediatrics, Public Health and Clinical and Translational Science; Edmund R. McCluskey Chair in Pediatric Medical Education; ; Co-Lead, The Pittsburgh Study; Co-Director, Community PARTners (Community Engagement) Core, Clinical and Translational Science Institute, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine^[38]
• Whitney Nash and Sara Robertson (nurse) nurse practitioners Kentucky Racing Health Services Center.
• Deirdre Tobias Assistant Professor in the Department of Nutrition Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health^[39]

Public Health Officials active during Covid-19

State and local health officials are at the center of the Covid-19 response and management. They have been targeted, harassed, and threatened.^[40] Of these officials, more than 60% are women.^[41]

This list was compiled from news articles as well as the Directory from the Association of State and Territorial Health Officials.

• Lori Tremmel Freeman (CEO of National Association of County and City Health Officials)
• Theresa Anselmo (Colorado Association of Local Public Health Officials)
• Kat DeBurgh (ED, Health Officers Association of California) https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/22/us/coronavirus-health-officials.html
• Anne Zink (physician) (AK)
• Cara M. Christ (AZ)
• Sandra Shewry (CA)
• Erica Pan (CA)
• Jill Ryan (CO)
• Emily Brown, MPH (CO, former director of the Rio Grande County Public Health Department) https://www.npr.org/2020/06/14/876714176/public-health-workers-face-threats-unemployment-while-fighting-virus
• Deidre Gifford (CT)^[42]
• Karyl Rattay (DE)
• Alina Alonso (FL, Palm Beach County's Health Department)
• Yesenia Diaz Villalta (FL, Miami-Dade County Health Department)
• Kathleen Toomey (GA)
• Libby Char (HI)
• Elke Shaw-Tulloch (ID)
• Allison Arwady (IL, Chicago)
• Kristina M. Box (IN)
• Kelly Garcia (IA)
• Jennifer Avegno (LA, New Orleans) https://www.wwno.org/post/frontline-dr-jennifer-avegno
• Sheila Hogan (MT)
• Lisa Sherych (NV)
• Kathy Kunkel (NM)
• Lillian Shirley (OR)
• Kim Malsam-Rysdon (SD)
• Lauri Jones (WA) https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2020/06/03/868566600/local-public-health-workers-report-hostile-threats-and-fears-about-contact-traci
• Stephanie Smiley (WI)^[43]
• Alexia Harrist (WY)