When Edna Adan Ismail, the winner of the 2023 Templeton Prize, began working as a nurse and midwife in 1960s Somalia, she was horrified by the pain and medical complications she saw in patients who’d ...

Edna Adan Ismail, seen in London, is the winner of the 2023 Templeton Prize, one of the world's largest annual individual awards. (Tim Cole/Templeton Prize) Edna Adan Ismail, a nurse-midwife, hospital ...

In this photo provided by the Templeton Prize in May 2023, Dr. Edna Adan Ismail sits for a portrait in London. Ismail, a nurse-midwife, hospital founder, and healthcare advocate who for decades has ...

Edna Adan has spent much of her life being first. The daughter of a prominent medical doctor in Somaliland, she was the first girl in her country to learn to read, the first Somali woman to drive, the ...

(RNS) — She is the first African woman to receive the prize, which is valued at 1.1 million British pounds (over $1.3 million). (RNS) — When Edna Adan Ismail, the winner of the 2023 Templeton Prize, ...

Edna Adan Ismail, a nurse-midwife, hospital founder, and health care advocate who for decades has combated female circumcision and strived to improve women’s health care in East Africa, was named ...