Executive Board Member
Gita Mishra AO
PhD, FAHMS
President-Elect
Brisbane, Australia
NHMRC Leadership Fellow; Director, Australian Women and Girls’ Health Research Centre; Faculty of Health, Medicine and Behavioural Science, The University of Queensland
Gita Mishra is an NHMRC Leadership Fellow and Professor of Life Course Epidemiology at the University of Queensland (UQ). She is also the founding Director of the Australian Women and Girls’ Health Research Centre at UQ, where she leads the NHMRC Centre of Research Excellence in Women and Non-Communicable Diseases and the Australian Longitudinal Study on Women’s Health.
As an author of over 500 scientific papers, book chapters, and evidence reports, Professor Mishra is internationally recognised for her research on women’s health epidemiology. Her research program directly contributed to the Australian National Action Plan for Endometriosis. Her team produced the first comprehensive figures on its prevalence for national statistics and identified the importance of of endometriosis diagnosis on birth outcomes prior to using assisted reproductive technology rather than afterwards. She also leads the Medical Research Future Fund study on Genetic variants, Early Life exposures, and Longitudinal Endometriosis Symptoms (GELLES) that focuses on adolescent and young women.
Professor Mishra is lead editor of the recently published book “A Life Course Approach to Women’s Health” (July 2023) that presents a comprehensive overview of research in the field and is part of the ground-breaking Life Course Series from Oxford University Press.
She also works closely with governments on policy development. In 2023, Professor Mishra was scientific advisor to Queensland Health for the Queensland Women and Girls’ Health Strategy 2032. Currently, she a member of the National Women’s Health Advisory Council established by the Australian Government and is on the Strategic Advisory Committee for the Queensland Women and Girls’ Health Promotion Program.
In 2018, Professor Mishra became a Fellow of the Australian Academy of Health and Medical Sciences. She has since received the 2022 RANZCOG award for Excellence in Women’s Health, and in 2023 she was appointed as Co-President for the 2025 World Congress for Endometriosis to be held in Sydney.
Email: g.mishra@sph.uq.edu.au