| Barbro Westerholm | |
| Birth Date: | 1933 6, df=yes |
| Birth Place: | Stockholm, Sweden |
| Death Place: | Stockholm, Sweden |
| Office1: | Member of the Riksdag |
| Term Start1: | 2 October 2006 |
| Term End1: | 26 September 2022 |
| Constituency1: | Stockholm County |
| Term Start2: | 3 October 1988 |
| Term End2: | 1 October 1999 |
| Constituency2: | Stockholm County |
| Office3: | Chairman of the Swedish Pensioners' Association |
| Term Start3: | 1999 |
| Term End3: | 2005 |
| Predecessor3: | Gunnel Jonäng |
| Office4: | Director-General of the National Board of Health and Welfare |
| Term Start4: | 1979 |
| Term End4: | 1985 |
| Predecessor4: | Bror Rexed |
| Successor4: | Maj-Britt Sandlund |
| 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]