PRACTICING HEALTH EQUITY:

The History of Early African American Women Physicians with Dr. Vanessa Northington Gamble

APRIL 4, 2024
RECEPTION AT 5:30PM LECTURE AT 6PM.
LOCATION: HOLLINGS PROGRAM ROOM SPECIAL COLLECTIONS
THOMAS COOPER LIBRARY

Dr. Vanessa Northington Gamble, a professor of medical humanities at George Washington University, will be speaking about the pivotal role of African American women physicians in advancing the health of Black Americans, which is widely unrecognized in American history. This presentation will analyze the lives of African American women physicians who practiced in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. It will examine how, in the face of race and sex discrimination, these “sisters of a darker race” crafted careers that combined medicine, racial justice, and health equity activism.