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Professor Gita Mishra’s research interests include: Life course approach to women’s health, statistical methodology relevant to longitudinal and life course data. In a research career spanning well over a decade, Gita Mishra has more than 170 peer reviewed publications, including 20 book chapters and invited reviews. Her main research focus has been to investigate the influences of biological, social, and lifestyle factors through the life course on women’s health, mainly reproductive health, and their relationships with health outcomes in later life.
Prior to returning to Australia in 2010, Gita Mishra was Programme Leader at MRC Unit for
Lifelong Health and Ageing, UCL, home of the 1946 British Birth Cohort, where she was responsible for multidisciplinary research on the effects of lifetime lifestyle and social environment on later heath. Currently she co-leads the Centre of Research Excellence on Women’s Health in the 21st Century at the University of Queensland and is also on the steering group of the Australian Longitudinal Study on Women’s Health, the nation’s flagship cohort study of women’s health.
She has recently initiated InterLACE, a new international collaborative research programme on the relationship of reproductive health and chronic disease in later life.
Gita Mishra is recognised as a Chartered Scientist (Science Council) and Chartered Statistician (Royal Statistical Society). She has an active role in engaging with health providers and policymakers, and in 2009 was a member of the study group for Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists to provide advice for the UK government on the policy implications of changes in reproductive patterns. She is on the editorial board of three journals, including Molecular Human Reproduction. Gita Mishra’s co-edited book “Family Matters: designing, analysing and understanding family-based studies in life course epidemiology” is the latest volume in the distinguished series on Life Course Epidemiology from Oxford University Press.
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