Women in Medicine Legacy Foundation Launches the HUB, its Most Ambitious Project Yet

HUB launches with six inspirational women, all Alma Dea Morani Awardees

The Women in Medicine Legacy Foundation has launched the pilot of the HUB, an online database displaying autobiographical, biographical, and professional materials from a diverse array of illustrious women in medicine.

“Attending to diverse women professionals and issues of social justice, the HUB will showcase the Foundation’s ongoing commitments to diversity, equity, and inclusion in the historical record and in the profession of medicine,” says Danielle Laraque-Arena, MD, FAAP, President of the Foundation.

The first six women highlighted in the HUB are all Alma Dea Morani Renaissance Woman award-winners: Alma Dea Morani, MD, FACS; Barbara Barlow, MD, FACS; Florence Pat Haseltine, MD, PhD; Mary-Claire King, PhD; Rita Charon, MD, PhD; and Vivian W. Pinn, MD. The Foundation has compiled their currently fractured legacies into an accessible and appealing format. These six women not only advanced their profession; they also sought to redress inequities in social and professional spheres. 

The Foundation hopes to grow the HUB’s repository of diverse women healthcare professionals in concert with educational partners, ensuring a more robust appreciation for, and broad engagement with, the past and future legacies of women in medicine. As this platform grows, it will establish the Foundation as a connector and funder of historical materials documenting women’s legacy in medicine. 

“As we celebrate 25 years of preserving and fostering the historical record of women in medicine, the HUB represents both the culmination and the expansion of our mission,” says Vicki Burkhart, the Foundation’s Executive Director.

The HUB’s expanding footprint will ultimately serve wider publics: educators and learners; health and humanities researchers; health organizations documenting institutional histories; historians and archivists; news and communication outlets; interested members of the general public.  

Looking to the future, the Foundation envisions an expanding array of collaborators, partners, and sponsors who will produce an ever-growing repository of diverse women healthcare professionals on the HUB.

You can see the HUB pilot here.