Publications

Scientific Peer-Reviewed Publications

At the core of WBF’s work lies scientific research. In collaboration with some of the world’s most prestigious research centres, we study how sex and gender differences can impact diseases and how to leverage such differences for improved, patient-centric treatments.

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Books

We publish scientific books and books for the lay public to increase awareness of brain and mental diseases as well as the importance of sex and gender differences.

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March, 2021

Una Bambina Senza Testa

Bambina Senza Testa is a work of creative non-fiction in Italian by Antonella Santuccione Chadha and Maria Teresa Ferretti, who explore stories of patients affected by different psychiatric conditions, from depression to dementia to encephalitis. Each story is told from the point of view of the medical doctor that tries to help the patient, as well as from the scientist that tries to understand the underlying pathological process.
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July, 2021

Sex and Gender Differences in Alzheimer’s Disease

Sex and Gender Differences in Alzheimer’s Disease is edited by our co-founders Maria Teresa Ferretti, Antonella Santuccione Chadha and Annemarie Schumacher Dimech. The first academic book on sex and gender differences in Alzheimer’s Disease.
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May, 2022

Sex and Gender Bias in Artificial Intelligence and Healthcare

Sex and Gender Bias in Artificial Intelligence and Healthcare is a pioneering work that highlights the relevance of sex and gender differences and bias in the development of novel technologies for health. Edited by Davide Cirillo, Silvina Catuara-Solarz and Emre Guney.
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May, 2024

Health Against Future Pandemics

This book, a unique collaboration of global experts, was born out of the COVID pandemic and has since evolved to cover a diverse range of topics. From epidemiology to mental health, from treatment to risk prediction, and even drawing lessons from astronauts under space isolation, it offers a comprehensive and digestible read around pandemic prevention and AI.
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August, 2025

Educating a Superintelligence

This book, written by Nicoletta Iacobacci, builds on her paper, “Fertility: The Missing Code for AGI,” presented at AGI-25 in Reykjavik and published by Springer. It introduces Fertile Ethics—five transformative principles for designing AI that nurtures human agency, honors complexity, and grows meaning through interaction.

Closing the Gap
Podcast Series

Women and men experience illnesses differently, yet these differences are often not sufficiently considered in research and medicine.

Dr. Antonella Santuccione Chadha discusses with her guests why we need to rethink women’s health.

Episodes

These episodes were sponsored by Assura, one of the largest Swiss health insurers.

EPISODE 1: Sex is the Basis of Personalized Medicine

Dr. Berna Özdemir 

Many cancer drugs remain in women’s bodies significantly longer than in men’s. Dr. Berna Özdemir explains why this is the case and why data gaps usually affect women. Together with Dr. Antonella Santuccione Chadha, she discusses the role of sex and gender in cancer medicine.

[Language: German]

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EPISODE 2: Perimenopause and Menopause Are Not Diseases

Dr. Valentina Vinante 

Menopause is a profound life stage for women. Dr. Valentina Vinante emphasizes that it is not only about treating symptoms but also about prevention and long-term health.

Available 18 October 2025

[Language: German]

EPISODE 3: We Live a Longer Time Being Sick

Dr. Anna Erat

People are living longer, and women live on average longer than men. At the same time, they spend more years of their lives in poor health. Dr. Anna Erat, an expert in longevity and sports medicine, explains the consequences of this.

Available November 2025

[Language: German]

Articles and videos
for the general
public

One of our goals is to empower individuals, patients and caregivers to better understand and protect their brain and mental health. To this end, we express cutting-edge scientific findings in language that everyone can understand in articles and videos for the lay public, including TED-x talks.