Barbro Westerholm

She was Member of Parliament (Riksdag) from 1988 to 1999 and again from 2006 to 2022. She was the Chair of the Liberal women in 1988–1997.

Barbro Westerholm
Westerholm in 2014
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	(1933-06-16)16 June 1933 Stockholm, Sweden
Died	13 March 2023(2023-03-13) (aged 89) Stockholm, Sweden
Political party	Liberals

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.

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. In 2009 she was awarded the Nordic Public Health Prize for her work in fighting discrimination against the elderly. She was awarded the Illis quorum by the government of Sweden in 2003.

Westerholm died on 13 March 2023, at the age of 89.