Gita Mishra

Gita Devi Mishra is an Australian epidemiologist who is Professor of Life Course Epidemiology and National Health and Medical Research Council Leadership Fellow at the University of Queensland. She is the director of the Australian Women and Girls’ Health Research Centre. She was awarded the 2022 Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists Award for Excellence in Women’s Health.

Early life and education

Mishra completed her doctoral research at the University of Auckland, where she studied medical statistics. Mishra was a scientific program leader at the Medical Research Council in Cambridge. She moved to University College London in 2004, where she spent three years as a Women’s Health Senior Research Fellow.

In 2010, Mishra joined the University of Queensland as a Professor of Life Course Epidemiology at the School of Public Health. She was awarded an Australian Research Council Future Fellowship in 2013, and made a National Health and Medical Research Council Leadership Fellow in 2022. In 2025, Mishra was awarded an Honorary Doctorate from Stockholm University.
Mishra founded the Queensland centre on Australian Women and Girls’ Health Research, where she leads long-term studies on women's health, including the Australian Longitudinal Study on Women's Health and the International collaboration for a Life course Approach to reproductive health and Chronic disease Events. These studies collect data on over 800,000 women in 12 countries, and provide comprehensive information on women's health around the world. She has studied the relationship between reproductive characteristics and disease.
Mishra developed the evidence for the 2020 National Women’s Health Strategy and the Queensland Women’s Health Forum.
Mishra is president of the 2025 World Congress of Endometriosis.