Melinda French Gates Is Taking on the Women’s Health Gap. Here’s How
6/5/202629 min
For a lot of women, getting the right care at the right time can make all the difference... but that doesn’t always happen. Too often, women’s health is underfunded, under-researched, or under-treated. Melinda French Gates joins Sanjay to explain why women are still being overlooked and why midlife, menopause, and maternal and reproductive health often fall through the cracks. She also breaks down her new funding push – and what smarter, more targeted investment could mean for women’s lives. Our show was produced by Andrea Kane and Jennifer Lai. Video Editor: Ross Helman with support by Jasmine Brooks.Medical Writer: Andrea Kane Showrunner: Dan BloomTechnical Director: Dan Dzula Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
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First 90 secondsSanjay Gupta· Host0:00
[gentle music] Hey there. Welcome to Chasing Life. We got a very special episode for you today, but I wanna start off by reminding you of something about my own life. You've no doubt heard me say many times that I am the father, proud father of three daughters. They are some of the most important people in my life alongside my wife, my mom, and even my mother-in-law. I am surrounded by these strong, powerful, amazing women in my life, and they provided so many things for me, love, companionship, sometimes even a stern lesson or two. But here's the thing that might surprise you. Despite representing half the population, women are often facing a lot of inequality when it comes to many things in our society, especially health and healthcare. Get this, women spend 25% more of their lives in debilitating health as compared to men. They're just sicker, and they're more often sicker at pivotal times in their life. That's something we're gonna talk about today. And despite that, they are often underrepresented when it comes to finding treatments for the things that ail them. Women get overlooked and underserved too often when it comes to their health. So today we're gonna talk about it, and we're gonna talk about it with someone who knows a lot about this issue and is trying to do something about it, Melinda French Gates. She's a philanthropist. Um, she's gonna be making an important announcement on the podcast today regarding her organization,