Further reading: * A Pioneer of Maternal Health: Jerusha Jhirad (1890–1983), National Medical Journal of India * Indian Contribution to Obstetrics and Gynecology, Journal of Obstetrics and Gynaecology of India * Women's Activism NYC, Jerusha Jhirad profile 10/10

In 1925, Jhirad and her sister Leah helped establish a Bombay congregation affiliated with the Jewish Religious Union. Jhirad had encountered the movement's mixed-gender prayers in London. It offered a Progressive alternative to the city's Orthodox synagogues. 9/10

Jhirad led the Association of Medical Women in India from 1947 to 1957. She served on the Bombay and Poona university senates and examined for Bombay, Madras and Poona. Britain awarded her an MBE in 1945; India awarded her the Padma Shri in 1966. 8/10

Jhirad was a founding member of the Bombay Obstetric and Gynaecological Society. In 1950, she presided over a Madras congress that voted to form a national federation, and was elected its first president. She also edited its journal until 1968. 7/10

Jhirad studied maternal deaths in Bombay in 1937 and 1938, publishing a government report in 1941. She found high rates of anemia and puerperal sepsis, an infection following childbirth. Of the deaths, 71.2% were among poor women living in congested housing. 6/10

In 1928, Jhirad became medical officer at Cama Hospital in Bombay, the first Indian to hold the post. She remained until 1947. The hospital expanded its teaching facilities and organized antenatal, postnatal and well-baby clinics and a separate newborn ward. 5/10

At London's Elizabeth Garrett Anderson Hospital, Jhirad's supervisor allowed her to perform abdominal surgery. She spent months of 1918 as a house surgeon at a Birmingham maternity hospital. In 1919, she became the first Indian woman to earn an MD in obstetrics & gynecology. 4/10

Jhirad pursued further medical training in Britain. In 1914, she received a Tata loan scholarship to study obstetrics and gynecology at the London School of Medicine for Women. A Government of India postgraduate scholarship, until then open only to men, soon followed. 3/10

Born in 1890 in Shivamogga, in present-day Karnataka, Jhirad won scholarships throughout her education. At Grant Medical College in Bombay, she graduated in 1912, topping her class. (Some sources give her birth year as 1891.) 2/10

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