Mira Harrison-Woolrych Editor & Author

Mira Harrison-Woolrych is an Honorary Research Associate Professor at the Dunedin School of Medicine, University of Otago, New Zealand (NZ). She has worked on women’s medicines for over 20 years, having first trained in clinical obstetrics and gynaecology.  Dr Harrison-Woolrych has significant experience in research, medicines regulation and pharmacovigilance in the UK and NZ. As Director of the Intensive Medicines Monitoring Programme for ten years, she led pharmacoepidemiology research studies on many different medicines and intrauterine devices, resulting in an extensive list of publications in high-ranking journals. 

Dr Harrison-Woolrych is a Fellow of the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists and has served on several government advisory committees as an expert on women’s medicines. She was also elected to the Executive Committee of the International Society of Pharmacovigilance (ISoP) and leads the ISoP Women’s Medicines Research Group. The international networks developed in these roles have enabled her to draw on a wealth of expertise from the other authors who have contributed chapters to this extraordinary book.