May 8, 2025 – TIME has announced its second annual TIME100 Health list, recognizing the 100 most influential figures in the health sector.
The 2025 TIME100 Health list features prominent individuals like Kate Middleton, the Princess of Wales; U.S. Olympic athlete Ilona Maher; former NBA player Dwyane Wade; Eli Lilly CEO David Ricks; Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese; GSK CEO Emma Walmsley; Pivotal Ventures founder and philanthropist Melinda French Gates; World Health Organization Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus; actor and advocate Colin Farrell; U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services Robert F. Kennedy Jr.; actors and Hilarity for Charity founders Seth Rogen and Lauren Miller Rogen; activist Rachel Sweet; advocate, science educator, and television host Bill Nye; Novartis CEO Dr. Vas Narasimhan; Apple’s vice president of health, Dr. Sumbul Desai; Global Health Council president Elisha Dunn-Georgiou; U.S. FDA commissioner Dr. Marty Makary, and numerous others.
–View the complete 2025 TIME100 Health list:
–See the cover, which features an illustration of Dr. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus by Charly Palmer for TIME:
To compile the list, TIME reporters and editors, with input from Dr. David Agus and Arianna Huffington, consulted various sources and experts globally over several months. Their goal was to identify the 100 people currently exerting the most influence in the health world. The TIME100 Health list represents a diverse community of leaders from various fields—including scientists, doctors, advocates, educators, and policymakers—who are impacting global health.
In their commentary on this year’s list, TIME editors state: “This year stands apart in the history of global health…. Given the significant disruptions of the past year, the TIME100 Health—the 100 most influential individuals in the health sector today—reflects these changes.”
TIME will host the TIME100 Impact Dinner: Leaders Shaping the Future on May 13th in New York City to celebrate a range of leaders, including those recognized on the 2025 TIME100 Health list. The event will include discussions focused on fostering innovation and influencing trends in healthcare, with appearances by CNN anchor and senior national correspondent Sara Sidner, NFL player, entrepreneur, and philanthropist Damar Hamlin, advocate, science educator and television host Bill Nye, executive director of icddr Bangladesh and leader in global health and public nutrition Dr. Tahmeed Ahmed, vice president of research of The Trevor Project Ronita Nath, surgical oncologist at Memorial Sloan Kettering Dr. Vinod Balachandran, president of Novartis US Victor Bulto, and co-CEO and co-founder of FIGS Trina Spear.
The TIME100 Impact Dinner: Leaders Shaping the Future of Health is presented by premier partner Novartis and signature partner FIGS.
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