To compile the list, Time reporters and editors spent months consulting experts around the world to select the 100 most influential people in health right now, according to a May 2 company news release. The final list includes scientists, physicians, advocates, educators, policy-makers and more. The participants were broken into categories of innovators, titans, pioneers, leaders and catalysts.
“Together, the individuals on the TIME100 Health list are a reminder that many things are going right, and their work is enough to inspire the belief that the world of health is in the middle of a golden age of accomplishment and transformation,” Time Editor-in-Chief Sam Jacobs said in the news release. “Whether you are familiar with the individuals on this list or this is the first time you’re reading about them, their work is changing the lives of people in your community and around the world.”
The youngest person recognized on this list is 28-year-old Dale Whelehan, CEO of Four Day Week Global, a nonprofit platform established to spread support for the four-day work week. The oldest person recognized is 99-year-old Jimmy Carter, the 39th U.S. president.
Here are TIME’s 100 most influential people in health:
Note: Click each person’s name to see Time’s full profile on them.
Innovators
Hadiza Galadanci
Raluca Cohen, PhD
Scott O’Neill, PhD
Rory Collins, MD
Alex Oshmyansky, MD, PhD
Daniel Skovronsky, MD, PhD
John Leonard, MD
Charles Gore
Dima Gazda, MD
Dora Chomiak
Mike Curtis, PhD
Stephanie Sober, MD
Venkat Shastri, PhD
Dale Whelehan, PhD
Bobby Gaspar, MD, PhD
Peter Lee, PhD
Paolo De Coppi, MD, PhD
Alka Dwivedi, PhD
Avindra Nath, MD
Andrea Cercek, MD
Titans
Vivek Murthy, MD
Peter Marks, MD, PhD
Pam Cheng
Lars Fruergaard Jorgensen
David Ricks
Dan Doctoroff
Trent Green
Khaled Kabil, MD
Brenda Waning, PhD
Zahid Maleque
Michael Regan
Jeremy Farrar, PhD
Emmanuel Macron
Mandy Cohen, MD
Greg Adams
Sumbul Desai, MD
Jimmy Carter
Ivan Cheung
Albert Bourla, PhD
Mike DeWine
Pioneers
Joel Habener, MD, Dan Drucker, MD, Svetlana Mojsov, PhD, and Jens Juul Holst, MD, DMSc
Barney Graham, MD, PhD
Amy Kirby, PhD
Katsuhiko Hayashi
Stuart Orkin, MD
Adrian Hill, PhD
Katalin Kariko, PhD, and Drew Weissman, MD, PhD
Ziyad Al-Aly, MD
Jerry Mendell, MD
Tulio de Oliveira, PhD
Thomas Powles, MD
Jocelyne Bloch, MD, and Grégoire Courtine, PhD
Kim Nolte
Georg Schett, MD
David Baker, PhD
Leaders
Bashar Murad, MD
Akiko Iwasaki, PhD
Eric Topol, MD
Linda Griffith, PhD
Uché Blackstock, MD
Tigress Osborn
Halle Berry
Mulikat Okanlawon and Fidel Strub
Alaa Murabit, MD
John Fetterman
Sean Mayberry
Jaime Seltzer
Shahzad Baig, MD
Ruth Gottesman, EdD
Chiquita Brooks-LaSure
Melanie Ward
Jaha Dukureh
Stefan Friedrichsdorf, MD
Carlotta Pianigiani
Catalysts
Michael J. Fox
Peter Attia, MD
Richard Thompson, PhD
Bessel van der Kolk, MD
Katelyn Jetelina, PhD
Rick Doblin, PhD
Ronnie Levin, MD
Marlena Fejzo, PhD
Peter Hotez, MD, PhD
Nedra Tawwab
Sholto David, PhD
Francesca Dominici, PhD
Rebeca Ramos
Carolee Lee
Jenna Forsyth, PhD
Olivia Munn
Neil Powe, MD, and Cynthia Delgado, MD
Jonathan Haidt, PhD
Alua Arthur
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