Gita Mishra

Professor Mishra is a NHMRC Leadership Fellow and Director of NHMRC Centre of Research Excellence in Women and NCDs at the School of Public Heath, University of Queensland. She is also Director of the Australian Longitudinal Study on Women’ Health (ALSWH), a national cohort study running since 1996, that has informed development of policy related to women’s health.

Professor Mishra is internationally recognised for her research on life course epidemiology and women’s health. Her work focuses on the links between reproductive factors, from menarche to menopause, and the risk of non-communicable diseases (NCDs) including cardiovascular disease. She initiated and led InterLACE a major international collaboration on women and NCDs, that now has individual data from more than 800,000 women in 14 countries.

She has over 450 peer-reviewed scientific papers and book chapters. In 2017, she was presented an honorary membership of Sigma International, a global nursing organisation, for her contribution to women’s health. In 2022, she was presented with RANZCOG Excellence in Women’s Health award.