Scientists, physicians, advocates, educators and policymakers landed on Time’s third annual Time100 Health list Feb. 11, highlighting the 100 most influential individuals in health.
Four things to know:
1. Time correspondents and editors consulted sources and experts worldwide to select the 100 individuals on the list.
2. The list makers are “behind the defining health stories of the year — from promising clinical trials and breakthrough immunotherapies, to advances in the search for cancer vaccines, the release of the first GLP-1 pill by Novo Nordisk, and leaders around the world stepping up to fill critical gaps following reductions in international aid and medical research funding under the Trump Administration,” according to the newsmagazine and digital media brand.
3. Some of the notable names on the list:
- Robert F. Kennedy Jr., secretary of HHS
- Chris Hemsworth, actor
- Mehmet Oz, MD, administrator of CMS
- Marty Makary, MD, commissioner of the FDA
- Jennifer Mensik Kennedy, PhD, RN, president of the American Nurses Association
- Jesse Eisenberg, actor and director
- Eric Dane, actor
- Victor Bultó, president, Novartis US
- Rob Davis, CEO, Merck
- David Ricks, CEO, Eli Lilly
- Joe Sachs, MD, emergency room physician; writer and producer on HBO’s “The Pitt”
- Karan Singhal, head of Health AI, OpenAI
- Michelle Lujan Grisham, governor of New Mexico
- Michael Osterholm, PhD, director of CIDRAP
- Catherine Wu, MD, chief, Division of Stem Cell Transplantation and Cellular Therapies at Dana‑Farber Cancer Institute
- Darrell Irvine, PhD, professor of immunology and microbiology, Scripps Research
- Douglas Melton, PhD, co‑director, Harvard Stem Cell Institute
- John Green & Hank Green, authors and philanthropists
- Maziar Mike Doustdar, president and CEO of Novo Nordisk
- Kiran Musunuru, MD, PhD, a physician-scientist and professor of cardiovascular medicine and genetics at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia, and Rebecca Ahrens-Nicklas, MD, PhD, a physician-scientist and assistant professor of pediatrics at the University of Pennsylvania and an attending physician at Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia
4. Time will spotlight Time100 Health members on Feb. 19 in New York City.
Read the full list here.
