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Provides an overview of leading topics in women’s health with an emphasis on the US and other developed settings. Examines leading sources of morbidity and mortality through age-gender-race/ethnicity-disaggregated data. For each topic, we examine historical context, risk factors, prevention, and treatment. Considers health from biological, lifecourse, and social determinants perspectives, including via frameworks of women’s health disparities and intersectionality that address inequities in interpersonal, social, political and economic power. Major topics include: non-communicable diseases (cardiovascular disease, cancer), immunology, infectious disease, preventive health, aging, mental health, and violence.