“A life course approach is central to women´s health”
Last week, Gita Mishra AO, Professor at the University of Queensland, Australia, was in Stockholm to receive her honorary doctorate at Stockholm University. During her visit, Professor Mishra, a world-leading researcher in life course epidemiology and women’s health, gave a public lecture on women´s health at the university. Ilona Grünberger, Professor of Health Equity Studies/Public Health Medicine at the Department of Public Health Sciences at Stockholm University, got an interview with Professor Mishra. Congratulations on your honorary doctorate and thank you for accepting the invitation to visit Stockholm University. In your public lecture, you presented many original findings, for example the unfavorable cohort trends in obesity or mental health problems among women. Most of these findings were from a large nation-wide study directly funded by the Australian government. Could you tell us more about the importance of that study and its potential to continue to inform practice and policy in your country but also in an international perspective?
