Addressing gambling harms among women

Leveraging lessons from the wider field of gender and health

Authors

  • Daria Ukhova University of Glasgow image/svg+xml
  • Fulvia Prever Varenna Foundation

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.29173/cgs221

Keywords:

gambling harm, women, gender-transformative, intersectionality, commercial determinants of health

Author Biographies

Daria Ukhova, University of Glasgow

Daria Ukhova is a research associate at the University of Glasgow (UoG). She joined UoG in 2021 to lead the policy workstream of the Lancet Public Health Commission on Gambling. Prior to that, Daria worked for more than 10 years on gender-responsive health and social policy and programme development internationally. She held in-house and consultant research and policy positions at Oxfam, WHO, and European Institute for Gender Equality and in parallel completed a PhD in sociology of gender. Daria was a co-author of the WHO report Beyond the mortality advantage: investigating women’s health in Europe that led to the development and adoption of the regional strategy on women’s health and well-being.

Fulvia Prever, Varenna Foundation

Fulvia Prever is a psychotherapist specialized in Family Therapy, Substance, Gambling and Behavioural Addictions with a focus on gender approach. She worked for 38 years as an executive psychologist at the Addictions Clinic of the Italian National Health System (NHS) in Milan. She is the scientific director and founder of the Women & Gambling Project in (SU(N)COOP (Italy) and the President of the Varenna Foundation (Italy) for mental health support in adolescents and young adults. She also serves as the International Contact Point for Women, Gambling and Behavioural Addictions in the European Association for the Study of Gambling (EASG) and the International Society for the Study of Behavioural Addictions (ISSBA). She published Gambling Disorders in Women and Behavioural Addictions in Women (Routledge 2017, 2023).

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2025-03-23

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Ukhova, D., & Prever, F. (2025). Addressing gambling harms among women: Leveraging lessons from the wider field of gender and health. Critical Gambling Studies, 5(2), 80–86. https://doi.org/10.29173/cgs221

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