Today's Google Doodle Honors Public Health Pioneer Helen Rodríguez Trías. Here's What to Know

Trias died in 2001 and was born in New York in 1929. She spent his childhood in Puerto Rico, and the island and its people are still important in her life.

Trias finished his undergraduate and medical studies at Puerto Rico University and in 1960 got a medical degree. During her stay - while raising 4 children - Trias set up the first neonatal care center in Puerto Rico, halving the infant mortality rate at her hospital. According to the National Institute of Health (NIH), we changed medical face project for 3 years

Ten years after graduation, Trias returned to New York and was admitted to Lincoln Hospital, which provides services to low income Puerto Rican patients in South Bronx. So she led the pediatrics department and eventually cultivated a passion for improving the health of women and the right to abortion.

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According to the National Institutes of Health, Trias played an important role in the reconstruction of women's sterilization when women's sterilization was often used for colored women, disabled women, and low income women. She is a founding member of the Disinfestation Abuse Commission and the Committee on Abortion Rights and Sterilization, and in 1979 drafted a draft guide for federal sterilization.

In the 1980s, Trias served as the medical director of the New York State Department of Health AIDS Laboratory, where he worked to improve the health and welfare of women living with HIV. According to the New York Times, during her remaining career, she continued to work on the health of women and children, becoming the founder of the Latin American AIDS Council and the first Latin American president of the American Public Health Association .

2001 - She died of complications of lung cancer in the same year - her efforts won her presidential citizen medal

HelenRodríguezTrías (7th July 1929 - 27th December 2001) is a pediatrician, educator and women's rights activist. She is the first Latin American President of the American Public Health Association, the founding member of the Female Caucus of the American Public Health Association, and the recipient of the president's civic medal. She is admired as helping to expand the scope of public health services for ethnic minority groups and low-income women and children all over the world. Parents of Rodríguez Trías moved from Puerto Rico to New York in the early 20th century. After her birth, her family returned to Puerto Rico in 1939 and returned to New York. In New York, Rodriguez Trias experienced racial discrimination and discrimination. In school, she was put in the classroom with students with disabilities in academic work, and she knew how to speak English despite her good grades.

Rodríguez Trías' mother is a school teacher in Puerto Rico. But in New York, she could not get a teacher's license. As a result, her mother had to accept a boarding school to meet economic needs and to pay the rent. After Rodríguez Trías graduated from high school, she decided to study medicine, and her islands have a good scholarship system, so her chances in Puerto Rico will be better. In 1948, she began studying at San Juan Puerto Rico University. The university has a very strong independence movement, and Rodriguez triaths participated in the student faction of the Puerto Rican Kuomintang. The KMT leader Don Pedro Albiz Campos was invited to attend the student council, but the University President Haimeaksa Benitez did not allow Albiz to enter the campus. Therefore, the student striked between Rodriguez and Strias, but her older brother did not admit this

RodríguezTrías leads a pediatrician at Lincoln Hospital in South Bronx. In Lincoln Hospital, Rodriguez Trias urged all workers to express opinions on administrative issues and patient care issues. She began participating in the Puerto Rican community and encouraged hospital health care workers to understand the cultural issues and needs of the community. Rodríguez Trías was an associate professor of medicine at Albert Einstein Medical College at Yeshiva University, later taught at Columbia University and Fordham University.