About Virginia M. Alexander
Virginia Margaret Alexander was an American physician, public health researcher, and the founder of the Aspiranto Health Home in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Alexander and McCarroll were the first two women members at the hospital because before them, the rules prohibited women from interning. Alexander founded the Aspiranto Health Home in her renovated house in 1930. The field of public health gained popularity in the years leading up to World War II, and Alexander was one of the first people to acquire a master's degree in public health. Alexander also recorded disparities in health outcomes: she found that Black babies died at over twice the rate of white babies, and Black patients died of tuberculosis at over six times the rate of white patients.
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