This volume brings together case studies that relate the stories of women leaders in public health and health care from 1872 to the present: Katsi Cook, Mona Hanna-Attisha, Katharine Dexter McCormick, Mary Engle Pennington, Florence Schorske Wald, Virginia Apgar, Marilyn Gaston, Jane E. Brody, Risa Lavizzo-Mourey, Marilyn Tavenner, Ruth Williams-Brinkley, and Suerie Moon. They were educated in biology, chemistry, journalism, medicine, midwifery, nursing, and public health and worked to impact environmental health, environmental justice, reproductive rights, food safety, hospice care, maternal and child health, health care, personal health, the intersection of culture and health, the Affordable Care Act, and international humanitarian aid. Each case study includes background on the woman's rise to leadership, the problem she faced, and her solutions, as well as her legacy, personal strategies and qualities, and how other individuals, experiences, and social movements impacted her. Annotation ©2021 Ringgold, Inc., Portland, OR (protoview.com)
Junctures in Women’s Leadership: Health Care and Public Health offers an eclectic compilation of case studies of women leaders in public health and health care over nearly 150 years. Extraordinarily relevant to current public discourse, topics include: the COVID-19 pandemic, health disparities, disease prevention and the Affordable Care Act. Their leadership lessons can be applied to a broad array of disciplines.
Junctures in Women’s Leadership: Health Care and Public Health offers an eclectic compilation of case studies telling the stories of women leaders in public health and health care, from Katsi Cook, Mohawk midwife, to Virginia Apgar, Katharine Dexter McCormick and Florence Schorske Wald, to Marilyn Tavenner, Suerie Moon, and more. The impact of their work is extraordinarily relevant to the current public discourse including subjects such as the global COVID-19 pandemic, disparities in health outcomes, prevention of disease and the impact of the Affordable Care Act. The leadership lessons gleaned from these chapters can be applied to a broad array of disciplines within government, private business, media, philanthropy, pharmaceutical, environmental and health sectors. Each chapter is authored by a well versed and accomplished woman, demonstrating the book’s theme that there are many paths within health care and public health. The case study format provides an introductory section providing biographical and historical background, setting the stage for a juncture, or decision point, and the resolution. The women are compelling characters and worth knowing.
