Edris Rice-Wray Carson, M.D. attended Cornell University where she was a member of the Alpha Phi sorority. Carson had a long career as a public health doctor, primarily in Central America and Mexico. She was a faculty member of the Puerto Rico Medical School and medical director of the Puerto Rico Family Planning Association. She founded Mexico's first family planning clinic in Mexico City. She is considered a birth control pioneer who headed the first large scale clinical trials of the birth control pill.

Recipient of Planned Parenthood Federation of America Margaret Sanger Award in 1978.

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