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, 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 ...
(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, ...