"This article was first published in the Fall 2022 issue of Critical Connections.

Lucy Modra, MD, MPH, an intensivist at Austin Health and a senior clinical fellow in the Department of Critical Care at the University of Melbourne in Melbourne, Australia, wanted to know why less than one in four critical care physicians in Australia and New Zealand are women and what could be done to change it. In 2015, she cofounded the Women in Intensive Care Network to promote gender equity in intensive care medicine in Australia and New Zealand. While conducting the network’s advocacy work, Dr. Modra began to learn more about implicit bias.

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