Susan Gyankorama De Graft Johnson

Susan Gyankorama De-Graft Johnson (died 1985) was the first woman to qualify as a physician in colonial Ghana and the first Ghanaian woman to receive a university degree. Eventually she became medical officer in charge at Kumasi Hospital, and later she assumed charge of the Princess Louise Hospital for Women. She was made an Honorary Doctor of Science by the University of Ghana for her work on malnutrition in children, and received the Royal Cross from Pope John Paul II when he visited Ghana in 1980. She helped to establish the Women's Society for Public Affairs and was a founder of the Ghana Academy of Arts and Sciences. Her contemporary was Matilda J. Clerk, the second Ghanaian woman to become a physician in the Gold Coast.