Thread by @WHO

On #WomenInScience Day,
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We celebrate all the women who have had a pioneering role in advancing science and health.

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@pahowho @WHO_Europe @WHOEMRO @WHOAFRO @WHOSEARO @WHOWPRO On #WomenInScience Day, 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

@pahowho @WHO_Europe @WHOEMRO @WHOAFRO @WHOSEARO @WHOWPRO On #WomenInScience Day, 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

@pahowho @WHO_Europe @WHOEMRO @WHOAFRO @WHOSEARO @WHOWPRO On #WomenInScience Day, 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.

@pahowho @WHO_Europe @WHOEMRO @WHOAFRO @WHOSEARO @WHOWPRO On #WomenInScience Day, 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.

@pahowho @WHO_Europe @WHOEMRO @WHOAFRO @WHOSEARO @WHOWPRO On #WomenInScience Day, let's remember Anne Szarewski who discovered the cause of #CervicalCancer, leading to the first-ever HPV vaccine.

@pahowho @WHO_Europe @WHOEMRO @WHOAFRO @WHOSEARO @WHOWPRO On #WomenInScience Day, let's remember Françoise Barré-Sinoussi’s work on #HIV, which was fundamental to the identification of the virus as the cause of AIDS.

@pahowho @WHO_Europe @WHOEMRO @WHOAFRO @WHOSEARO @WHOWPRO On #WomenInScience Day, it’s a moment to recall that principles of human rights and social equity require that women play just as significant roles in science and health as men.