Barbro Westerholm | |
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Member of the Riksdag | |
In office 2 October 2006 – 26 September 2022 | |
Constituency | Stockholm County |
In office 3 October 1988 – 1 October 1999 | |
Constituency | Stockholm County |
Chairman of the Swedish Pensioners' Association | |
In office 1999–2005 | |
Preceded by | Gunnel Jonäng |
Director-General of the National Board of Health and Welfare | |
In office 1979–1985 | |
Preceded by | Bror Rexed |
Succeeded by | Maj-Britt Sandlund |
Personal details | |
Born | Stockholm, Sweden | 16 June 1933
Died | 13 March 2023 Stockholm, Sweden | (aged 89)
Political party | Liberals |
Barbro Westerholm (16 June 1933 – 13 March 2023) was a Swedish politician of the Liberals. She was Member of Parliament ( Riksdag) from 1988 to 1999 and again from 2006 to 2022. [1] [2] She was the Chair of the Liberal women in 1988–1997.
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. [3] 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. [4] [5]
Westerholm was a critic of ageism and advocates for the measurement and publicizing of data on the economic value of volunteer work, and in particular the contributions of older people. [6] In 2009 she was awarded the Nordic Public Health Prize for her work in fighting discrimination against the elderly. [7] She was awarded the Illis quorum by the government of Sweden in 2003. [8]
Westerholm died on 13 March 2023, at the age of 89. [9] [10]