Elizabeth Sager Sharp CNM, DrPH, FAAN, FACNM, (December 16, 1933 - February 7, 2016) was an American nurse and midwife who specialized in maternal and newborn health.
In 1999, she received the American College of Nurse-Midwives' Hattie Hemschemeyer Award.
[2] She continued her nurse training at Yale University, graduating in 1959.
[2] Sharp received a doctorate in public health from Johns Hopkins University.
[3][4] In the 1970s Sharp set up a graduate midwifery training program, the Emory University Nurse-Midwifery Program, at Nell Hodgson Woodruff School of Nursing at Emory University.