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

And I don't know all the biology of exactly.

I know malaria has been here with us since the time of the Egyptians.

I know how it produces in the liver.

I know what it does to red blood cells.

Okay, let's be clear.

That's a lot.

That's more than most people know.

Right.

And it's a parasite.

So that's why it's hard to get a vaccine for it.

Okay, we finally got one.

But

That's one disease.

And so you're in these rooms with these scientists who are working on this, and they are on the cutting edge of science.

So feeling like I knew enough to ask the right questions, and I finally just had to, again, kind of be willing to be myself.

Like I said about when I worked at Microsoft is, okay, I might fall on my face, but it's all right.

I've just learned to be myself and ask the question.

I had read with my daughters, Phoebe and Jen, when they were younger, all of his teenage novels for teens.

And then I read Ann Patchett is a friend of mine.

She told me to read that.

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