Barbro Westerholm
Barbro Westerholm 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. 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.
In 2009 she was awarded the Nordic Public Health Prize for work to fight discrimination against the elderly.
