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Feb 11 • 6 tweets • 5 min read
Today is #WomenInScience day!

Discover the remarkable life stories & work of the women featured in The Lancet this year 👇 Copyright © 2021 Bloomberg/Getty Images
Ayoade Alakija has never been motivated by career goals; her work is about making a difference to people's lives.

Meet the newly appointed @WHO Special Envoy & Co-Chair of the Access to #COVID19 Tools Accelerator.

@yodifiji #WomenInScience hubs.li/Q013Z78G0
Ros Taylor's engagement with how we die has defined her career.

Discover Taylor's approach to palliative medicine; which she defines as "just good family medicine with more time".

@hospicedoctor #WomenInScience hubs.li/Q013Z7680
Her example persuaded other pioneering women doctors in India that they could specialise outside the traditional career path.

Sivaramakrishna Iyer Padmavati: "godmother of cardiology" to those in her home country.

#WomenInScience hubs.li/Q013Z7fR0
History provides "blueprints for us to change course".

Learn how Deirdre Cooper Owens uses her knowledge of the past to interrogate systemic racism in US hospitals, medical schools, & policy today.

#WomenInScience hubs.li/Q013Z6Lj0
Now in our 3rd year of the pandemic, @richardhorton1 reflects on the extraordinary contributions made by some of the #WomenInScience at the forefront of the #COVID19 response. hubs.li/Q013-gL40

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