Melinda French Gates

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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

My lens on women's health has changed and been informed by what I have seen all over the world through the more than 25 years in philanthropy.

Like I have seen the difference that contraceptives make for women.

I have seen it with my own two eyes.

I have seen it in the data, the longest standing data.

Global health research goes back to the 1970s.

We know when a woman can time and space the births of her pregnancies.

She's healthier.

The children are healthier.

The family is wealthier.

So I've been on that piece of that journey for a long time.

Then with the foundation, we looked a lot at maternal mortality around the world.

And now with my pivotal journey, I'm looking at what else do we need to do?

How do we look at contraceptives and the reproductive years and maternal health in the US, but also what is it we need to do for these other phases in life that we just don't talk about for women?

We have been invisible when it comes to perimenopause and menopause all over the world, and that just shouldn't be.

I'm announcing an additional $215 million towards women's health to focus on really two areas, women's reproductive health years.

I'm doubling down on my commitments in reproductive health, but then I'm adding on a new area, which is women's second part of life, their midlife, 40s and on, perimenopause and menopause, trying to bring voice and focus and resources to the most vulnerable

And it sounds like mental health.

Exactly.

So when I talk about reproductive health and maternal health, I want wraparound services, mental health services, particularly in maternal mortality, in the maternal years.

Because when women are going through these years of pregnancy, we're not diagnosing their anxiety and their depression.

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