Melinda French Gates

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.

Cardiovascular disease, 35% of women's death is from cardiovascular disease.

And yet, a woman goes into the health system, even in our own country, and the chance she is diagnosed with having a heart attack is very low.

50% of cases for women are missed.

And it's because we think of cardiovascular disease as a man's disease.

Totally.

So with Welcome Leap, we're together putting in $100 million to study cardiovascular disease in women.

And where should we intervene sooner?

What should we look at?

What are the biomarkers?

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.

Yeah.