Maggie Wyss, PhD, is a researcher, writer, and international health expert exploring the intersection of gender, health, and society. Her work is centered on how women navigate complex decisions—particularly in pregnancy, birth, and motherhood.

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Her research has taken her across the world, from Geneva to East Africa, where she studied how mothers decide whether to enroll their children in malaria vaccine clinical trials. That work led her deeper into the broader forces that shape maternal decision-making—from societal pressures to systemic barriers to the deep, intuitive knowing that mothers carry. She has published peer-reviewed articles on complex systems and maternal decision-making and has presented her research everywhere from Stanford Medical School to Makerere University in Uganda.

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Over the years, she has worked with UNICEF, the World Health Organization, and the World Bank on global health initiatives focused on children’s health and access to care. Since the Covid-19 pandemic, she has served as a public health expert to the Swiss government. Her work has been recognized in USA Today and featured in podcasts and interviews discussing health, decision-making, and maternal well-being.

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Now, she is bringing this expertise into her writing. Motherhood is one of the most profound and consequential experiences in a woman’s life, yet we rarely treat it as such. The same themes she has spent years researching—autonomy, trust, societal expectations, and systemic barriers—shape the way women experience motherhood every day. And yet, the conversation around it remains narrow, often personal rather than structural.

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Maggie’s work challenges that. She is writing about motherhood in modern society—not just as a personal experience, but as a public health issue, a social structure, and a system that needs reimagining. She believes ideas should be lived, not just studied, and is sharing her work in real time, starting conversations that challenge the way we think about motherhood.

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Originally from Canada, Maggie now lives in Lucerne, Switzerland, with her husband and three young children. She speaks English, German, and Dutch and spends her happiest moments walking through the woods—often with a few little ones in tow.