Junctures in Women's Leadership: Health Care and Public Health (Junctures: Case Studies in Women's Leadership)

By: Mary E. O'Dowd and Elizabeth Ryan and Dawn Thomas and Elizabeth Hoover and Denise Rodgers and Mary Wachter and Ann Marie Hill and Raquel Mazon Jeffers and Christina Tan and Heather Howard and Patricia Findley and Colleen Blake and Alexander Bartke and Christina Chesnakov and Grace Ibitamuno and Erica Reed and Akanksha Arya and Carson Clay and Suzanne Willard and Jacqueline Hunterdon-Anderson

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Synopsis: Junctures in Women’s Leadership: Health Care and Public Health offers an eclectic compilation of case studies telling the stories of women leaders in public health and health care, from Katsi Cook, Mohawk midwife, to Virginia Apgar, Katharine Dexter McCormick and Florence Schorske Wald, to Marilyn Tavenner, Suerie Moon, and more. The impact of their work is extraordinarily relevant to the current public discourse including subjects such as the global COVID-19 pandemic, disparities in health outcomes, prevention of disease and the impact of the Affordable Care Act. The leadership lessons gleaned from these chapters can be applied to a broad array of disciplines within government, private business, media, philanthropy, pharmaceutical, environmental and health sectors. Each chapter is authored by a well versed and accomplished woman, demonstrating the book’s theme that there are many paths within health care and public health. The case study format provides an introductory section providing biographical and historical background, setting the stage for a juncture, or decision point, and the resolution. The women are compelling characters and worth knowing.