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10. Dr. Helen Rodríguez Trías
Dr. Helen Rodríguez Trías lived from 1929 to 2001.
Dr. Trías studied at the University of Puerto Rico and graduated in 1960, completed her residency in Pediatrics and began teaching there. She established Puerto Rico’s first infant health clinic, and her efforts paid off, reducing infant mortality by 50 percent.
Dr. Trias moved to New York in 1970 and headed the Pediatrics department at Lincoln Hospital in the Bronx, serving primarily Black and Latino patients. In the 1980s, she worked as the medical director of the New York State AIDS Institute and co-founded the hispanic caucus of the American Public Health Association. She was the first Latina to be elected President of this famous organization.
She fought for women’s reproductive rights and to end sexism in healthcare, while fighting against forced sterilization of women some countries used as population control. In 2001, President Bill Clinton awarded her the Presidential Citizens Medal.
Thank you, Dr. Rodriguez Trías, for being a public health hero!
This biography is based on publicly available
information and was edited by Hugh Dunn and Adam Graczyk.
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Dr. Helen Rodríguez Trías lived from 1929 to 2001.
Dr. Trías studied at the University of Puerto Rico and graduated in 1960, completed her residency in Pediatrics and began teaching there. She established Puerto Rico’s first infant health clinic, and her efforts paid off, reducing infant mortality by 50 percent.
Dr. Trias moved to New York in 1970 and headed the Pediatrics department at Lincoln Hospital in the Bronx, serving primarily Black and Latino patients. In the 1980s, she worked as the medical director of the New York State AIDS Institute and co-founded the hispanic caucus of the American Public Health Association. She was the first Latina to be elected President of this famous organization.
She fought for women’s reproductive rights and to end sexism in healthcare, while fighting against forced sterilization of women some countries used as population control. In 2001, President Bill Clinton awarded her the Presidential Citizens Medal.
Thank you, Dr. Rodriguez Trías, for being a public health hero!
This biography is based on publicly available
information and was edited by Hugh Dunn and Adam Graczyk.