Melinda French Gates

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932 appearances 10 recordings 6 series first heard Feb 2026 last heard 14 Jun

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Wild Card with Rachel Martin · Melinda French Gates · 5 Feb 2026 podcast

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.

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.

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