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Caroline Susan E. Homer is an Australian midwifery researcher and international advocate for women's health rights. She is Co-Program Director,Maternal and Child Health at the Burnet Institute in Melbourne and Visiting Distinguished Professor of Midwifery at the University of Technology Sydney.
Carolyn Conant Van Blarcom was an American nurse and midwife reformer. In 1913,she became the first American nurse to become a licensed midwife. She made pioneering contributions in preventing childhood blindness. Van Blarcom also played instrumental role in establishing a school for midwives,and extensively contributed in reforming some of the important health institutions in America including the Maryland State Sanatorium for Tuberculosis.
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