Health and Medicine

Mary Seacole helped save dozens of lives and her work in the field of health has inspired many more. In 1855, she travelled from Jamaica…

In 1937 she attended Royal appointments in Britain with her father and brother, Adetokunbo Ademola.

Patricia Bath was the first African American to complete a residency in ophthalmology and the first African American female doctor to receive a medical patent.

Rebecca Lee Crumpler was the first Black woman to earn a medical degree in the United States.

She served as the President of the Medical Association of the State of Alabama (MASA) in 2002. In 1995 she was elected to the Board…

She was the first African American president of the American Medical Women’s Association and wrote more than 90 professional articles

she joined her father in exile in London and trained as a state registered nurse at the Great Ormond Street Hospital for Sick Children, graduating…

Vivian Winona Pinn is an American physician, scientist and pathologist known for her advocacy of women’s health issues and concerns

Hinton’s greatest contribution to medical science was the Hinton test for diagnosing syphilis which became the preferred test for the US Public Health Service, because…