REPRODUCTIVE HEALTH • GENDER EQUALITY • BIOETHICS

Bridging research, policy and advocacy to advance evidence-informed approaches to reproductive health and gender equality.

Expertise

  • Reproductive Health - fertility choices, assisted reproduction, reproductive justice, harmful practices, bioethics

  • Social Egg Freezing - motivations, lived experiences, ethics, cross-country regulation

  • Health Policy & Advocacy - evidence-to-policy, patient advocacy, public affairs, stakeholder engagement

  • Ethical Decision Making - bioethics, ethical leadership, gender-transformative leadership

About me

I am a social scientist working at the intersection of reproductive health, gender equality, health policy and bioethics. I hold a PhD in political science and a master's degree in international healthcare management, with more than 15 years of international experience across research, advocacy, policy and stakeholder engagement.My work focuses particularly on the social, ethical and policy dimensions of reproductive health and technologies, including social egg freezing, and on translating evidence into policy and practice.My experience spans research and analysis, policy and advocacy, capacity strengthening - including teaching and training - stakeholder engagement, and contributing expertise to public, policy and expert forums. I have worked across academic, nonprofit and European research environments and particularly value interdisciplinary and cross-sector collaboration.

TALKS (selection)

  • Kinderwunsch auf Eis gelegt: Social Egg Freezing - zwischen Wunsch und Realität, Wiener Dialog Frauengesundheit, November 2026 (upcoming)

  • Reproduction in Transition: Social Egg Freezing Between Hope and Reality, Department for Ethics and Law in Medicine, University of Vienna, June 2026

  • Health Science Forum Vienna: Science Meets Demography - Reproductive Medicine at the Intersection of Ethics and Innovation, 2024

  • Congress of the European Academy of Paediatric Societies, 2022

  • International Conference on Human Milk Science and Innovation, 2022

  • Infant Health Policy Summit, 2021

  • Policy launch event: Making Human Milk Matter – The need for regulation in the European Union, 2020

  • International Expert Symposium: Comparative and transnational perspectives on technologies of fertility preservation and extension, 2019

  • AFIN International Conference: Towards Reproductive (In)Justice?: Mobilities, Technologies, Labourings & Decisions, 2019

  • UNESCO Chair in Bioethics World Conference, 2018

I am a speaker as part of the Women in Global Health Speakers Bureau.

UNIVERSITY TEACHING

  • Reproductive Futures? Reproductive Technologies at the Intersection of Ethics and Society (University of Vienna; WS 2026)

  • Ethical Leadership in Health Care (Management Center Innsbruck; WS 2026)

  • Ethical Decision Making (Management Center Innsbruck; WS 2026)

  • Interdisciplinary Lecture Series “Interventions: Reproduction as Technological, Social, and Cultural Experiment” (Medical University of Innsbruck)

  • Healthcare Governance (Erasmus University Rotterdam)

  • Healthcare Ethics (Erasmus University Rotterdam)

  • Human Rights & Ethics (Management Center Innsbruck)

  • Thesis supervision (bachelor & master)

WORKSHOPS

  • The Women in Global Health Speakers Bureau: Owning the stage - public speaking (Women in Global Health Austria)

  • Social Science Research in SRH – from design to dissemination (Geneva Foundation for Medical Education and Research in collaboration with WHO/RHR and Oxford Maternal & Perinatal Health Institute)

Publications

Find a complete list of publications here.

Scientific articles (selection)

  • Perspectives on Implementing European Newborn Health Standards: Insights From Parent Representatives and Healthcare Professionals. Acta Paediatrica, 2025.

  • Parents’ experiences regarding neonatal care during the COVID-19 pandemic—country-specific findings of a multinational survey. BMJ Open, 2022.

  • An unconventional path to conventional motherhood: A qualitative study of women's motivations and experiences regarding social egg freezing in the Netherlands. Gynecology Obstetrics and Human Reproduction, 2021.

  • Between “Medical” and “Social” egg freezing: A comparative analysis of egg freezing regulations in Austria, Germany, Israel, and the Netherlands. Bioethical Inquiry, 2021.

  • Zero separation: infant and family-centred developmental care in times of COVID-19. Commentary. The Lancet Child and Adolescent Health, 2021.

  • Neonatal care during the COVID-19 pandemic - a global survey of parents’ experiences regarding infant and family-centred developmental care. EClinicalMedicine, 2021.

  • Making human milk matter: the need for EU regulation. Commentary. The Lancet Child and Adolescent Health, 2021.

  • Unveiling the controversy on egg freezing in The Netherlands: A Q-methodology study on women’s viewpoints. Reproductive Biomedicine & Society Online, 2021.

  • Women’s viewpoints on egg freezing in Austria: an online Q-methodology study. BMC Medical Ethics, 2021.

  • Eizellen einfrieren für später? Die Kontroverse um Social Egg Freezing in Österreich. Juridikum, 2020.

  • Harmful Practices on the Global Agenda: Comparing Female Genital Mutilation/Cutting and Gender-Biased Sex Selection. Autrepart, 2018.

Books and chapters
(selection)

  • Boon and Bane of Assisted Reproductive Technologies: The impact of son preference and prenatal sex selection in a globalized world. 2019.

  • Human Trafficking and Exploitation for the Purpose of Reproduction. 2018.

  • Human Trafficking and Exploitation – Lessons from Europe. London/New York: Routledge, 2018 (eds).

  • Female Genital Mutilation in Europe – An overall approach to eliminate the practice. Saarbrücken: AV, 2013.

Policy and project reports
(selection)

  • Zero separation. Together for better care! Infant and family-centred developmental care in times of COVID-19—A global survey of parents’ experiences. Project report, 2021.

  • Making Human Milk Matter - The need for regulation in the European Union. Policy Recommendations, 2020.

  • Health of the East Coast population of India. ACCESS Health International, Project report, 2011.

MEDIA COVERAGE

  • „Social Egg Freezing“ Kinderwunsch in Warteschleife. ORF.at: 9 July 2026.

  • Durch das Social Egg Freezing sollte man keine falsche Hoffnung wecken. Interview. Die Furche: 16 April 2026.

  • Der Nachwuchs aus dem Gefrierschrank. Wiener Zeitung: 2 August 2024.

  • Ice, ice, baby? Social Egg Freezing und die Hoffnung auf Familie. Die Fruchtbar: 28 October 2023.

  • Der verbotene Kinderwunsch. Falter: 22 February 2022.

  • Social freezing. RoSa vzw, Pers:pectief: 25 February 2021.

  • Frauen: die treibende Kraft. Weltnachrichten: 20 September 2018.

  • Gleichberechtigt? Noch lange nicht. Interview. Kurier: 4 August 2018.

Contact

For collaborations, advisory and speaking inquiries, or other requests, please get in touch.