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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Chasing Life with Dr. Sanjay Gupta · Melinda French Gates Is Taking on the Women’s Health Gap. Here’s How · 5 Jun 2026 podcast

It takes a very long time to pull them out.

And yet a mental health screening is not something that's hard to do.

Well, I think we have to look at where the biggest disparities are.

You have to look at where the biggest death and disability is happening, and then you have to go there.

And so we know preeclampsia is a big issue for women, and so making sure the clinics are doing the right things.

Predominantly in the U.S., we do that.

We take women's blood pressure when we go in, which is not true in many places in the world.

bleeding is a big issue so making sure that practitioners understand and doctors understand you know how bad the bleeding is but we have to go to these places and look at why are women being turned away why are they being dismissed why are they being told they need a c-section when they don't some of it is because many of these are low-income women and if they're on medicaid

Even the way they're scheduled for appointments, if they're even scheduled, a lot of times it's come in on this day and you wait in the waiting room until you're seen, right?

It's not even, hey, let's triage and figure out who's in the worst situation.

So you have to go where the problems are to take it apart.

And part of the thing that I'm learning is that you have to look at women's mental health.

Women are coming into clinics and saying, look, I can barely afford childcare.

I can barely afford to feed my kids.

I might lose my job.

I'm trying to figure out how to cobble a couple days together.

I already have a child, and now this one's on the way.

And so somebody needs to be reaching them and caring for them.

And if we do wrap around services in the right kind of clinics, that can be done, and then they can be accompanied to a hospital by a doula.

If you go with a doula, you're often heard more clearly.

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