Medical Women's International Association

The Medical Women's International Association is a non-governmental organization founded in 1919 with the purpose of representing female physicians worldwide. Esther Lovejoy was its first president.[1] The Association grew from an international meeting of medical women attending a YWCA meeting in America and a group of medical women in Britain, notably Dr Jane Walker.[2]

The 1948 chairperson Anna Charlotte Ruys (left) with the founding ex-chair Esther Pohl Lovejoy (right)

References
  1. "History | The Medical Women's International Association (MWIA)". mwia.net. Retrieved 2015-08-19.
  2. May Dickinson Berry, F. (15 March 1924). "Medical Women's Organizations. With Special Reference To The Medical Women's International Association". British Medical Journal. 1 (3298): 136–7. JSTOR 20436086.



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