Melinda French Gates
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And what can we bring forward more quickly?
for women's cardiovascular disease.
At the end of 2026, we will pick another very large topic, and we're looking at potentially either mental health for women or autoimmune diseases, because those are the two that really disproportionate amount of autoimmune diseases women are affected by compared to men.
So that's where I'm starting.
Then I'm finding partners to partner with me who believe in putting in money for women's health.
So I wrote a book that came out last year called The Next Day, and it's about transitions in life.
You don't get to age 60 without having made, all of us, lots of transitions in life.
Some you wanted to make, some you didn't expect, some that were easy, some that were really hard.
And so I decided to put this book out because what I realized was
In those transitions are the biggest moments of growth.
And if you can look at them that way and you can have the courage to go through them, you can pick these lessons out for yourself.
And so it felt extraordinarily vulnerable to do that book.
I have lived an incredible, just a very privileged life.
I don't take that for granted at all.
But in the end of the day, it doesn't.
Life is about the relationships you have and the family and the friends and what you make of it, how you make meaning out of it.
So I've tried to take this unbelievable wealth I never thought I would have and plow it back into society in ways to make it better.
So, yeah, that's what the book is about, is growth in transitions.