Melinda French Gates
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first heard Feb 2026
last heard 14 Jun
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And if less than 1 percent –
of all global health and research funding goes towards women's health, and yet where 50% of the population, there's a problem there.
And so I started to say to myself, wow, as I formed Pivotal Ventures, which I did in 2015, I really studied the barriers of what holds women back in our own country, the United States, and around the world.
And it's because we're
Where we've done research and where we have funded around health, we've assumed the man's body as the default body.
And then hers kind of comes next.
But now we're learning that when you invest in women's health, our bodies work very differently than men.
And so I'm really investing in lots of ways now in women's health to make sure we can find good solutions, break through the barriers for women.
Yeah.
So I know from longstanding health research when I was at the Gates Foundation is that reproductive health is the number one most important thing.
You have to at least do that because when a woman –
has access to a contraceptive, a contraceptive of her choice.
She will space the births of her children.
She is healthier.
She doesn't lose her life.
She doesn't get a fistula.
And the babies are healthier because they need to be spaced so she has enough time and energy to feed them and they get what they need.
So we know that is a bare minimum, but way above that.
When I now am focusing on health because I feel like the foundation's doing that, I'm doing some of that at Pivotal, but I'm now looking at what are the biggest killers of women.
Well, here's the biggest one.
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