TIME lists the 100 most influential people in healthcare
Last reviewed: 14.06.2024
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TIME magazine unveils the first TIME100 Health list, which ranks the 100 most influential people in health.
To compile this list, TIME reporters and editors spent months consulting with sources and experts around the world to select the 100 people making the biggest impact in the world of health care right now. The result is TIME100 Health, a community of leaders from across industries, including scientists, physicians, advocates, educators and policymakers, dedicated to creating tangible, credible change for the health of the world.
You can see the full 2024 TIME100 Health list at time.com/time100health and the TIME100 Health cover illustrated by Peter Greenwood for TIME at https://bit.ly/3Uojcso.
TIME Editor-in-Chief Sam Jacobs writes in a letter to readers: “Together, the individuals on the TIME100 Health list remind us that much is going right, and their work is sufficiently inspiring to believe that the world of health is in a golden age of achievement and transformation... Innovation in the field of health, like this list, reflect humanity at its best: people using all their resources and ingenuity to help each other live better... Whether you're familiar with the individuals on this list or are reading about them for the first time, their work is transformative the lives of people in your community and around the world."
Notable individuals on the 2024 TIME100 Health list include CEOs, founders and co-founders: Lars Fruergaard Jorgensen of Novo Nordisk, Albert Bourla of Pfizer, Alex Oshmyansky of Mark Cuban Cost Plus Drug, Dave Ricks of Eli Lilly, Dima Gazda of Esper Bionics and others. The list also includes women in key positions, such as NAAFA executive director Tigress Osborne, chemist Svetlana Moisov, vice president of health at Apple Sumbul Desai and others.
The youngest person on the list is 28-year-old Dale Whelean, CEO of Four Day Week Global, and at the other end of the spectrum is 99-year-old Jimmy Carter, the 39th President of the United States, known for his decades-long fight against Guinea worm disease. p>
The list also includes creatives and entertainment performers such as actors Michael J. Fox, Halle Berry and Olivia Munn, as well as scientists, doctors and researchers focused on health innovations.
The 2024 TIME100 Health list recognizes scientists, physicians and researchers focused on health innovation. Among them:
- Thomas Pauwels - cancer researcher.
- Jenna Forsythe is a scientific researcher.
- Amy Kirby is the chief scientist for the National Wastewater Surveillance System.
- GLP-1 Openers:
- Dan Drucker
- Joel Habener
- Svetlana Moisov
- Jens Juul Holst
- Jocelyne Bloch - neurosurgeon.
- Grégoire Courtin is a neuroscientist.
- Bashar Murad is the executive director of the Palestinian Red Crescent.
- Hadiza Shehu Galadanchi is a professor and researcher.
These individuals are distinguished by their contributions to the development of new methods of diagnosis, treatment and monitoring of diseases, making them important figures in the field of global health.
The TIME100 Health 2024 list also includes politicians and government officials who play a key role in shaping health policy:
- Emmanuel Macron, President of France.
- Mandy Cohen, Director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).
- Michael Regan, Administrator of the US Environmental Protection Agency.
- Mike DeWine, Governor of Ohio.
- John Fetterman, Senator from Pennsylvania.
- Vivek Murthy, US Surgeon General.
- Chiquita Brooks-LaChur, Administrator, Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS).
- Brenda Waening, Director of Global Medicines Facilitation.
These leaders make significant contributions to the development and implementation of policies aimed at improving health care at the national and international levels.