Gita Mishra

Professor Gita Mishra is a leading researcher in life course epidemiology and women’s health.

She joined the University of Queensland (UQ) in 2010 as the first Professor of Life Course Epidemiology at the School of Public Health and holds an NHMRC Leadership Fellowship (2022-26).

Professor Mishra is the founding Director of the Australian Women and Girls’ Health Research (AWaGHR) Centre, which includes 30 academics, staff, and PhD students. She leads the NHMRC Centre of Research Excellence in Women and Non-Communicable Diseases (CRE WaND) and the Australian Longitudinal Study on Women’s Health (ALSWH), which tracks data from over 57,000 women. She also leads the International Collaboration for a Life Course Approach to Reproductive Health and Chronic Disease Events (InterLACE), a global project involving data from over 800,000 women in 27 studies across 12 countries.

Professor Mishra is internationally recognized for her work linking reproductive health to the risk of non-communicable diseases such as diabetes and cardiovascular disease. She has published over 450 scientific papers and book chapters and recently completed the 2nd edition of A Life Course Approach to Women’s Health, to be published by Oxford University Press in 2023. Her research focuses on endometriosis, pelvic pain, and the healthcare experiences of women with multimorbidity.

She has contributed to policy, including leading the evidence review for the National Women’s Health Strategy 2020-2030 and chairing sessions at key conferences such as the 2021 RANZCOG Women’s Health Summit. Her work is frequently covered in national and international media.

In 2017, she was elected as a board member for the European Menopause and Andropause Society; received honorary membership of Sigma International, a global nursing organisation; and was elected a Fellow of the Australian Academy of Health and Medical Sciences (FAHMS). In 2022 she received the RANZCOG award for Excellence in Women’s Health.