World Health Organisation 78th General Assembly
World Health Organisation General Assembly 05 June, 2025 During the 78th GA of the WHO, while strengthening collaboration with our partners and presenting our findings on the economic return derived from investment on the Women’s Brain Capital, we participated in a high-level roundtable hosted by Foreign Policy and Takeda to discuss funding for non communicable […]
WBF Supports Global Advocacy to Include Neurology in NCD Commitments
WBF Supports Global Advocacy to Include Neurology in NCD Commitments 05 June, 2025 In alignment with our mission to advance equitable brain health, the Women’s Brain Foundation contributed to the OneNeurology initiative and the NCD Alliance’s response to the UN Zero Draft Political Declaration ahead of the 4th High-Level Meeting on Non-Communicable Diseases. The recommendations […]
World Multiple Sclerosis Day
World Multiple Sclerosis Day 05 June, 2025 World Multiple Sclerosis Day was observed on May 30. It’s a day in the year dedicated to raising awareness about Multiple Sclerosis (MS) a chronic neurological condition that affects the nervous system disrupting communication between the brain and the rest of the body. It disproportionately impacts women, with studies […]
Newsletter June 2025
Our journey began in 2017, when we first registered in Switzerland as an association committed to researching sex and gender differences in medicine — with a clear focus on brain and mental health. In 2024, we evolved into a foundation, marking a major milestone in our mission to establish a Research Institute for Sex and […]
Newsletter March 2025 – Birthday Edition
On 22 March, marks one year since the Women’s Brain Foundation was founded. What began in 2018 as an association transformed into the Women’s Brain Foundation on March 22, 2024-an evolution that solidified our unwavering commitment to advancing sex and gender precision medicine, dismantling outdated systems, and laying the groundwork for equitable healthcare for all. […]
Prescription for Change: Policy Recommendations for Women’s Health Research.
Prescription for Change: Policy Recommendations for Women’s Health Research Zurich, Switzerland | 22 May, 2025 | BY: WEF Global Women’s Alliance for Health Women are half the population yet health issues that affect them exclusively, differently or disproportionately remain under-researched and under-funded. For example, just 7% of healthcare research targets conditions that exclusively affect women. […]
Economist Impact – Phase 3 of Health Inclusivity Index
The Economist – Phase 3 of the Health Inclusivity Index Zurich, Switzerland | 22 May, 2025 | BY: The Economist We are pleased to share that phase 3 of the Health Inclusivity Index has been launched, and can be accessed at Index website, along with the findings from phases 1 and 2. The third research […]
Press release | Zurich, Switzerland | 12 May 2025
Women’s Brain Capital: A $250 Billion Opportunity for Global Financial Growth and Healthiness Press Release | Zurich, Switzerland | 15 May, 2025 The Women’s Brain Foundation (WBF), a non-profit organization leading research and advocacy for the consideration of sex and gender differences in brain and mental health, has published, in collaboration with the McKinsey Health […]
Why women experience Alzheimer’s disease differently from men
Why women experience Alzheimer’s disease differently from men Published by Nature Outlook Magazine| 14 April 2025 | BY Katherine Bourzac The first recorded example of Alzheimer’s disease involved Auguste Deter, a woman who died in Frankfurt, Germany, in April 1906, after experiencing memory loss and great anguish. In physician Alois Alzheimer’s 1907 paper1 describing Deter’s […]
Alzheimer’s disease: how women can reduce their high risk of dementia
Women are more likely to develop Alzheimer’s disease than men. Would hormone therapy protect them? Published by NZZ | 28 April 2025 | BY Theres Lüthi What puts women at greater risk for Alzheimer’s? A recent feature in the Neue Zuercher Zeitung explores this question from multiple angels – hormonal, social, and neurological. We are […]
