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30 Days of Pride Day 13- Sara Josephine Baker

Sara Josephine Baker was an American physician notable for making contributions to public health, especially in the immigrant communities of New York City. Her fight against the damage that widespread urban poverty and ignorance caused to children, especially newborns, is perhaps her most lasting legacy. 

Baker spent much of the later part of her life with Ida Alexa Ross Wylie, a novelist, essayist, and Hollywood scriptwriter from Australia who identified as a “woman-oriented woman”. She became the first woman to receive a doctorate in public health, and to be a professional representative to the League of Nations when she served on the Health Committee for the United States from 1922 to 1924.