The challenges Dr. Johnson faced as a woman in medicine who was fighting for women in medicine further illustrated the need for women on both sides of the science.
Despite studies that show that women and minorities have more novel ideas and unique links between concepts regarding health care than their white male counterparts, those ideas are more frequently discounted.
She has had a hand in effecting change across many government policies, including the coverage of birth control under the Affordable Care Act. In 2016, the US National Institutes of Health made a new policy that sex had to be included as a biological variable in all of its science, an update that Dr. Johnson actively worked for.
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