Vaccine Scientists honoured by creating role model barbie dolls.
Dame Sarah Gilbert Barbie
Dame Sarah Gilbert Barbie doll shares her long red-brown hair and oversized black glasses, and she wears a formal navy blue pantsuit and white blouse. British coronavirus vaccine developer Sarah Gilbert has many science awards to her credit but now shares honour with Beyonce, Marilyn Monroe and Eleanor Roosevelt: a Barbie doll resembling her.
Sarah Gilbert
Gilbert, a 59-year-old professor at Oxford University and co-developer of the Oxford/AstraZeneca vaccine, is one of six women in the COVID-19 fight who have new Barbies carved after them.
Take a look at the 'role model' dolls by Barbie here:
Barbie
Toymaker Mattel Inc is recognizing the six women with a line of Barbie "role model" dolls.
Role model dolls
The other role model dolls include:
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Amy O'Sullivan, an emergency nurse who treated the first COVID-19 patient at the Wycoff Hospital in Brooklyn, New York.
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Audrey Cruz, frontline doctor in Las Vegas who fought discrimination.
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Chika Stacy Oriuwa, a Canadian psychiatry resident at the University of Toronto who battled systemic racism in healthcare.
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Brazilian biomedical researcher Jaqueline Goes de Jesus, Brazilian biomedical researcher who led sequencing of the genome of a COVID-19 variant in Brazil.
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Kirby White, an Australian doctor who pioneered a surgical gown that can be washed and reused by frontline workers during the pandemic.
