THE VFA PIONEER HISTORIES PROJECT

Andy Epstein, RN

“I do everything with a feminist lens.”

Registered nurse and public health advocate in Massachusetts and Africa. Brookline Advisory Council on Public Health.

Interviewed by Judy Waxman, Oral Historian, December 2025

Photo. Adrienne (Andy) Epstein interviews a father and son in the emergency room at the Central Hospital of Beira, 1978. She was performing triage—treating some patients then and there, admitting others to a hospital bed, and sending others to an outpatient clinic. (Photo by Paul Epstein)

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