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Women public health doctors

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Michelle Bachelet
president of Chile from (2006–2010; 2014–2018)
Gro Harlem Brundtland
29th Prime Minister of Norway
Nawal El Saadawi
Egyptian feminist writer (1931–2021)
Margaret Chan
Chinese-Canadian physician (born 1947)
Ana Pastor Julián
Spanish politician
Gabriele Possanner
Austrian physician (1860–1940)
María Jesús Montero Cuadrado
Spanish politician (born 1966)
Teresa Forcades
Catalan Benedictine nun, theologian, physician and activist
Specioza Kazibwe
Ugandan politician
Adelaida Avagyan
hygienist (1924–2000)
Madeleine Brès
French physician (1849–1921)
Matilda Kerry
Nigerian doctor
Josephine Nambooze
Ugandan physician, public health specialist, academic and medical researcher
Carissa Etienne
Caribbean physician
Agnes Kant
Dutch politician
Endang Rahayu Sedyaningsih
16th Health Minister of Indonesia (1955–2012)
Suraya Dalil
Afghan physician and politician
Camilla Stoltenberg
Norwegian physician
Andrea Ammon
German physician
Teodora Krajewska
Austro-Hungarian physician, writer and teacher
Safiatou Thiam
Senegalese politician
Habiba Zehi Ben Romdhane
mwanasiasa wa Tunisia
Ecaterina Arbore-Ralli
Communist activist
Miriam Were
Kenyan public health advocate, academic, novelist
Carla Vizzotti
Argentine physician
Lilly Gabriela Montaño Viaña
Bolivian politician
Matshidiso Rebecca Natalie Moeti
Motswana physician, WHO Regional Director for Africa
María Julia Muñoz
Uruguayan politician
Leana Wen
American physician, academic, author and journalist
Stella Abidh
Trinidad and Tobago physician
Anna Braude-Hellerowa
Polish pediatrician (1888–1943)
Matilda J. Clerk
Ghanaian physician (1916-1984)
Anna Coutsoudis
South African public health scientist and academic
Carmen Moriyón
Surgeon and mayor of Gijón (2011-2019; 2023-)
Anna Popova
Russian physician and public health official (born 1960)
Alma Möller
Icelandic doctor and health administrator
Antonia Trichopoulou
researcher
Cecília Müller
Hungarian physician, former Chief Medical Officer of Hungary
Kate O'Brien
pediatric infectious disease physician, epidemiologist, and vaccinologist
Folake Olayinka
physician and global health leader
Nalla Tan
Singaporean physician, women's rights advocate and writer
Honey Lacuna
Filipino politician and 28th Mayor of the City of Manila, Philippines
Fatoumata Nafo-Traoré
Malian politician
Susana Muñiz
Uruguayan politician, physician and professor
Patricia García Funegra
Peruvian doctor
Marie Khemesse Ngom Ndiaye
Senegalese doctor and politician
Graça Freitas
Portuguese public health specialist and Director-General of Health
Anne Alvik
Norwegian physician and civil servant
Mirta Roses Periago
Argentine epidemiologist
Cissy Kityo
Ugandan physician and medical researcher