Barbro Westerholm

Barbro Westerholm (born 16 June 1933) is a Swedish politician of the Liberals. She has been a member of the Riksdag since 2006. Westerholm was previously a member from 1988 to 1999.

Barbro Westerholm
Member of the Riksdag
Assumed office
2 October 2006
ConstituencyStockholm County
In office
3 October 1988 – 1 October 1999
ConstituencyStockholm County
Chairman of the Swedish Pensioners' Association
In office
1999–2005
Preceded byGunnel Jonäng
Director-General of the National Board of Health and Welfare
In office
1979–1985
Preceded byBror Rexed
Succeeded byMaj-Britt Sandlund
Personal details
Born (1933-06-16) 16 June 1933
Stockholm, Stockholm County, Sweden
Political partyLiberals

From the mid-1960s Westerholm was an early pioneer in the field of pharmacovigilance, also working on the early stages of the WHO Drug Dictionary and the WHO Programme for International Drug Monitoring.[1] In 1979 as general director of the Swedish National Board of Health and Welfare, she had homosexuality dropped from the list of mental health diseases.[2]

In 2009 she was awarded the Nordic Public Health Prize for work to fight discrimination against the elderly.[3]

References
  1. Finney DJ (2003). From thalidomide to pharmacovigilance: a personal account. Meyler's Side Effects of Drugs Annual 2003, in vol. 26.
  2. Humanist events for Europride 2008 Archived December 6, 2010, at the Wayback Machine International Humanist and Ethical Union, 8 September 2008
  3. Barbro Westerholm gaines Nordic Public Health Prize for work to fight discrimination against the elderly Archived 2010-08-20 at the Wayback Machine Nordiska högskola för folkshälsovetenskap (Nordic University for Public Health), 6 July 2009


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