The Gates Foundation is allocating $2.5 billion to advance innovations in five critically underfunded areas of women’s health. This includes maternal and infant care, maternal nutrition, gynaecological and menstrual and sexual health, contraception, and sexually transmitted infections. Hundreds of millions of women worldwide are affected by conditions like preeclampsia, gestational diabetes, endometriosis, and menopause that are vastly not vastly researched, with only 1% of healthcare R&D focused on female specific issues beyond cancer. Investing in women’s health has significant economic benefits, hopefully yielding $3 in growth for every $1 spent and adding $1 trillion annually to the global economy by 2040 if the gender health gap is closed. The foundation asked governments, philanthropists, investors, and the private sector to participate and make sure these innovations reach women, especially in low and middle income countries, where women’s health needs and voices are the main point of research and development.