We interview two honorees from this summer's Women Deliver conference: a community health worker with an innovative strategy and a nurse who aims to heal the sick and bolster her profession.
![Rukaya Mumuni, nurse and public health specialist from Ghana, at the Women Deliver Conference in Kigali, Rwanda. "I wish women [could] get the right training, compensation, mentorship and recognition for the vital work they do in health care," she says.](/sites/default/files/styles/three_two_702x468/public/npr_story_images/2023/08/07/healthcare-heroines-5-09b81024313402fe3137f260ee29b3667d7f739e.jpg?h=d18f7745&itok=t-cSF3qk)