Barbro Westerholm

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Barbro Westerholm
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Barbro Westerholm in September 2014
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 by
Personal details
Born (1933-06-16) 16 June 1933 (age 88)
Stockholm, Stockholm County, Sweden
Political partyLiberals

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.

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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