Dorothy Stopford Price (9 September 1890 – 30 January 1954) was an Irish physician who was key to the elimination of childhood tuberculosis in Ireland by introducing the BCG vaccine.

[5] She lived through two World Wars, the Spanish Influenza pandemic, the 1916 Rising in Ireland, and the foundation of a new Irish state.

[citation needed] Dorothy first began her education by working with the Charitable Organisation Society, where she studied a form of social science.

Dorothy joined Cumann na mBan, an auxiliary of the Irish Volunteers, and gave lectures on first aid as part of her involvement.

She also attended a Tuberculosis Day in Walworth at the invitation of Mrs Anstruther, a social worker friend of her aunt.

She took a post-graduate course in Scheidess before preparing a thesis on The Diagnosis of Primary Tuberculosis in Children, which described modern continental theories and practices, and won her an MD.

[clarification needed] She began writing her book Tuberculosis in Childhood in 1937 and had 1000 copies of it produced by a Bristol-based publisher in 1939.

[14] She was recognised for her work when Health Minister Noel Browne appointed her as Chairman of a Consultative Council on TB.

[9] Stopford married William George "Liam" Price, a barrister, district justice and local historian from Wicklow.

[8] Medical professor Victor Millington Synge stated that "To her, more than anyone else, is due the credit of introducing into Ireland modern ideas of, and preventive measures against tuberculosis.

Few of the many thousands of children and young people who have been saved from death or tedious illness by BCG realize what they owe to Dorothy Price.