Making meaning
Opinion pieces & publications
I've published a children's book about equality and write extensively on Medium, Substack, and across podcasts and publications.
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Nothing About Us Without Us. And Nothing without Reciprocity
On what it really means to include patients in health-tech or biotech in an equitable way.
The brain is not a data source
Every extraction industry begins with a question.
The second patient: the caregiver brain is a clinical variable medicine refuses to see
And why neural sovereignty is a public health principle.
Understanding your digital cognitive load — the newest layer of the exposome
Your brain in the digital age: what the science says and what you can do.
Burnout and the community we stopped building
There is a version of the burnout conversation that leaves everything intact. This is not that version.
The caregiver brain as a clinical variable in post-acute neurological recovery
Why the caregiver's nervous system is a medical variable — and why no clinical system is measuring it. Proposing the Caregiver Protocol.
The cooking, the cleaning and the computing
Or how women have extended their lifespan, their responsibilities, but not their fertility.
The situated self: why the quantified self culture is missing the point
There's something seductive about the quantified self — the idea that if you track enough variables, you'll eventually find the signal beneath the noise.
Designing for the Edges
On ability, technology, and who cities are actually built for.
What Medicine Threw Away
On menstrual blood, stem cells, and the price of a very old taboo.
What a visit to the Sleep House in Bern made me realise about a generation that never really rests
On rest, restlessness, and what our sleep is trying to tell us.
The mind that won't clock out
On sleep, boundaries, and the slow work of learning to stop.
A few reflections on digital addiction and what comes next
And how do we build the meaningful infrastructure that makes the competition with the phone real?
Why caregiving needs to be decentralized
There is a particular kind of exhaustion that doesn't announce itself.
Designing systems around women's real lives
For the past two years, I've been quietly at odds with myself.
How do you throw a brick through the window of a bank if you can't get out of bed?
Disability policies are not just social protection measures, but public health tools.
Clinical AI could close the diagnostic gap for women — an interview with Donica Ward-Adams
Women have always been the quiet architects of better care — as patients who pushed for answers, as caregivers who learned to navigate a system on their own.
Move fast and break things — especially your brain
The Listening Society meets the Attention Economy — or why Move Fast and Break Things no longer inspires.
Who takes care of those who care at home?
Caregiving in Romania needs a long-term strategy that addresses burden, invisible costs, and implications for public health and the economy.
A participatory governance approach for a brain health plan
The case for open, participative design when centralized solutions fall short.
Evidence, research and community-building — my Swiss Dementia Forum experience
We say in stroke that every minute counts.
A neurologist and a psychiatrist walk into a chat room
Or how integrating neurology and psychiatry into a unified field model of "brain health" could open the door to new insights.
What healthcare should learn from the wellness industry
Design and experience can outperform even the strongest evidence — and why chronic patients today are both tired and wired.
Health literacy as a preventative measure
And how it should be a right — something we talk about openly, at the dinner table, in our communities, and most of all, in the doctor's office.