Myrna Braga-Blake

Myrna Braga-Blake (1935 – 30 May 2019) was a pioneering social worker and educator in Singapore. She was a founding member of the Association of Women for Action and Research (AWARE) and a prominent member of the Singapore Association of Social Workers.

Early life and education Braga-Blake was born in Singapore in 1935. She and her family moved to Sri Lanka and India during World War II, where she received her education. She and her family returned to Singapore in 1946. She then studied at Convent of the Holy Infant Jesus. Following her parents' divorce, she was sent to a convent in Australia, and later attended a boarding school in Ireland. She attended the Bath College of Domestic Science and received her teaching diploma in 1956.

Career She worked at the KK Women's and Children's Hospital, the Singapore General Hospital, and Tan Tock Seng Hospital. In 1962, she became an assistant lecturer at the National University of Singapore. After marrying and giving birth to a daughter, she and her family moved to Penang. While there, she studied sociology at the Universiti Sains Malaysia, where she obtained her Honours, Masters, and PhD degrees. She also helped to found the Young Workers Community Education Project there. She and Ang Bee Lian received the Outstanding Social Worker award in 1999.

She was posthumously inducted into the Singapore Women's Hall of Fame in 2021.