| Birth Date: | March 19, 1871 |
| Birth Place: | San Juan, Puerto Rico |
| Death Place: | Bronx, New York |
| Alma Mater: | Tufts University School of Medicine (MD) |
| Occupation: | Doctor |
Josefa Zaratt (also Zarratt) (born 19 March 1871, died 4 August 1962) was the first Black woman to graduate from Tufts Medical School.[1]
Josefa Zaratt moved back to her native Puerto Rico after attending Tufts University School of Medicine, graduating in 1905,[2] and was practicing medicine in 1906.[3] However, she couldn't get accredited, so returned to the continental US.[4]
Zaratt was one of the women who begun paving the path for African American women in the medical field. While they are few of these women, they all played an important role.
She worked at Douglass Hospital in Philadelphia in 1910.[5] By 1923, she was practicing medicine in Springfield, Massachusetts.[6] She appears to be living in Boston in 1932.[7]
Zaratt died on August 4, 1962, at Fordham Hospital in the Bronx, New York. She was buried at Ferncliff Cemetery and Mausoleum in Greenburgh, New York.