Barbro Westerholm (16 June 1933 – 13 March 2023) was a Swedish politician of the Liberals.

From the mid-1960s Westerholm was an early pioneer in the field of pharmacovigilance, also working on the early stages of the WHO Drug Dictionary and the WHO Programme for International Drug Monitoring.

[3] In 1979 as general director of the Swedish National Board of Health and Welfare, she had homosexuality dropped from the list of mental health diseases.

[4][5] Westerholm was a critic of ageism and advocates for the measurement and publicizing of data on the economic value of volunteer work, and in particular the contributions of older people.

[6] In 2009 she was awarded the Nordic Public Health Prize for her work in fighting discrimination against the elderly.