S. Josephine Baker, MD — public health, administration (government)
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Dr. S. Josephine Baker (1873–1945) expanded the scope of public health care as the first director of New York’s Bureau of Child Hygiene from 1908 to 1923. In 1917, she became the first woman to earn a doctorate in public health from the New York University and Bellevue Hospital Medical College (later the New York University School of Medicine).
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