Yvette Francis-McBarnette (May 10, 1926 – March 28, 2016) was an American pediatrician and a pioneer in treating children with sickle cell anaemia.
This allowed her to continue treating patients that she had originally seen in her pediatric sickle cell anemia screening program.
[4] In 1966, together with colleagues Dr. Doris Wethers and Dr. Lila Fenwick, she started the Foundation for Research and Education in Sickle Cell Disease.
[2] Francis-McBarnett used antibiotics with her patients, with positive results, although the effectiveness was not confirmed until fifteen years later in an article in The New England Journal of Medicine.
The committee's work led to the 1972 National Sickle Cell Anemia Control Act, signed by President Richard Nixon, which used federal funds for screening, counselling, education and research.