On #ScienceDay,
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We celebrate all the women who have had a pioneering role in advancing science and health!
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We celebrate all the women who have had a pioneering role in advancing science and health!
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@WHOWPRO @WHOEMRO @WHOSEARO @WHOAFRO @pahowho @WHO_Europe @UN @UNESCO @DrTedros On #ScienceDay, let's remember Florence Nightingale, a 19th- century statistician and founder of modern nursing, who understood the benefits of hygiene and sanitation in preventing disease. bit.ly/2EBlu0k
@WHOWPRO @WHOEMRO @WHOSEARO @WHOAFRO @pahowho @WHO_Europe @UN @UNESCO @DrTedros On #ScienceDay, let's remember Fe del Mundo, a paediatrician from the #Philippines, who did pioneering work on infectious diseases including #dengue. She was the first female student at Harvard Medical School. bit.ly/2EBlu0k
On #ScienceDay, let's remember Anandi Gopal Joshi, one of the first Indian female doctors. She was appointed physician-in-charge at a hospital in central #India, before she died of #tuberculosis aged just 22.
On #ScienceDay, let's remember Elizabeth Garrett Anderson, who taught herself French so that she could obtain a medical degree at the University of Sorbonne in Paris. She became 🇬🇧’s first female doctor.
On #ScienceDay, let's remember:
-Anne Szarewski who discovered the cause of #CervicalCancer, leading to the first-ever HPV vaccine
-Françoise Barré-Sinoussi’s work on #HIV, which was fundamental to the identification of the virus as the cause of AIDS.
-Anne Szarewski who discovered the cause of #CervicalCancer, leading to the first-ever HPV vaccine
-Françoise Barré-Sinoussi’s work on #HIV, which was fundamental to the identification of the virus as the cause of AIDS.
