Helen Rodríguez-Trías, MD — pediatric medicine, education (teaching), public health (social medicine)
Courtesy Library of Congress, Prints & Photographs Division, Look Magazine Photograph Collection, photograph by Jim Hansen
Dr. Helen Rodríguez-Trías (1929–2001) expanded the range of public health services in the continental United States, her native Puerto Rico, and around the world. She was an active member of the women's health movement. Dr. Rodríguez-Trías worked to support abortion rights, end forced sterilization, and provide care to underserved people.
Dr. Rodríguez-Trías speaking to new mothers, ca. 1963
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