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Charles Rotimi (1957– )
By: Tea Zawilak
| Published: Aug 09, 2025
Charles Rotimi is a researcher who studies the etiology of complex diseases and health disparities and advocates for the inclusion of greater racial…
EpidemiologyGenomicsAfrican PeopleGenetic epidemiologyHuman genetics--Variation
Women’s Field Army (1936–1948)
By: Emily Santora, Alexis Darby
| Published: Jul 31, 2021
From 1936 to 1945, the Women’s Field Army, hereafter the WFA, educated women in the US on the early symptoms, prevention, and treatment of…
OrganizationCancercarcinomapublic healthUterine Cervical Neoplasms
Annie Dodge Wauneka (1910-1997)
By: Malladi Lakshmeeramya
| Published: Dec 19, 2017
Annie Dodge Wauneka, a member of the Navajo Tribal Council in Window Rock, Arizona, from 1951 to 1978, advocated for improved lifestyle, disease…
Presidential Medal of Freedompublic healthChild mortalityAlcoholismPneumonia
Rudolf Carl Virchow (1821-1902)
By: Megan Kearl
| Published: Mar 17, 2012
Rudolf Carl Virchow lived in nineteenth century Prussia, now Germany, and proposed that omnis cellula e cellula, which translates to each cell comes…
PeopleCellsPathology, CellularPathology, Comparativepublic health
Infant Mortality: Results of a Field Study in Johnstown, PA., Based on Births in One Calendar Year (1915), by Emma Duke
By: Katherine Madgett
| Published: Mar 23, 2017
The book Infant Mortality: Results of a Field Study in Johnstown, PA., Based on Births in One Calendar Year (1915), written by Emma Duke, detailed…
Infants--MortalitySocial WelfareMilkpublic healthRural Health
Days for Girls (2008– )
By: Emily Santora
| Published: Jun 30, 2021
In 2008, Celeste Mergens founded the organization Days for Girls to address obstacles impeding women’s and girls’ access to sustainable hygiene and…
OrganizationMenstruationMenstruation--Social aspectsFeminine Hygiene ProductsSanitary napkins
Sterilization Act of 1924
By: Nathalie Antonios
| Published: Apr 14, 2011
The passage of the Virginia Sterilization Act of 1924 demonstrates how science has been used to drive policy throughout history. In the case of the…
LawEugenicsReproductionpublic health
“Causes of Death Among Stillbirths” (2011), by Stillbirth Collaborative Research Network Writing Group
By: Ajeet Bains
| Published: Jun 10, 2021
In December 2011, the Stillbirth Collaborative Research Network, or SCRN, published the article “Causes of Death Among Stillbirths” in The Journal of…
LiteratureFetal deathPregnancy--ComplicationsHealth and raceStillbirth
AFRIpads
By: Emily Santora
| Published: Jan 25, 2021
In 2010, Sophia and Paul Grinvalds founded the organization AFRIpads in Kampala, Uganda, to provide reusable cloth pads to menstruating women and…
OrganizationMenstrual CycleFeminine Hygiene ProductsMenstrual Hygiene ProductsSanitary napkins
Virginia Apgar (1909–1974)
By: Carolina J. Abboud
| Published: Feb 16, 2017
Virginia Apgar worked as an obstetrical anesthesiologist, administering drugs that reduce women’s pain during childbirth, in the US in the mid-…
Apgar, Virginia, 1909-1974Apgar ScorePregnancyObstetricsChildbirth