Veronique Greenwood

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Why You Can’t Remember Being a Toddler

This form of amnesia is almost universal, but has long been overlooked.

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Daniel Coleman

It’s been a hectic year for Daniel Coleman, the co-creator and star of YouTube channel Danny Go!, which produces instructive music videos that get kids up and moving. He and the rest of the team...

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Anne-Claire Amprou and Precious Matsoso

Find out why they're on the TIME100 Health 2026 list.

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John Green and Hank Green

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Manica Balasegaram

More than half a million new cases of gonorrhea were reported in the U.S. in 2024, and worldwide, the sexually transmitted disease, which can cause infertility, has growing resistance to existing treatments. In 2025, the...

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Loeto Mazhani

When Dr. Loeto Mazhani was a young pediatrician in the 1990s, infants in Botswana began dying in terrifying numbers, having contracted HIV from their mothers. By the late 1990s, as much as 30% of Botswana...

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Josephine Barasa

Community health workers across the globe were affected by public health funding cuts by the Trump Administration—in Nigeria alone, for example, 28,000 community health workers had their USAID-paid salaries evaporate. In Kenya, community health worker...

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Tariro Makadzange

Fewer than 4% of clinical trials are done in Africa, so Dr. Tariro Makadzange, a clinical assistant professor at Stanford University, founded the Africa Clinical Research Network (ACRN) in 2024 to radically increase that number....

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Takanori Takebe

Long before the COVID pandemic, Dr. Takanori Takebe knew how damaging mechanical ventilators could be. He had seen them used on his father, who has had respiratory problems. It was so painful and invasive that...

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Sabin Nsanzimana

In September 2024, Dr. Sabin Nsanzimana, Rwanda’s minister of health, was in a training exercise simulating an outbreak of hemorrhagic fever. Later that month, he and his colleagues confronted an eerily similar situation: In Kigali,...

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Delese Mimi Darko

During the COVID pandemic, pharmacist Delese Mimi Darko, then head of Ghana’s Food and Drugs Authority, saw how efficient Europe’s vaccine rollout was: A single approval by the European Medicines Agency (EMA) got the process...

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Luciano Moreira

In July 2025, Wolbito do Brasil, a joint venture of the World Mosquito Program and partners headed by CEO Luciano Moreira, opened the world’s largest mosquito biofactory in Curitiba, Brazil, to help stop the insects...

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Peter Sands

Peter Sands, the executive director of the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis, and Malaria, knew that 2025 would be an unusual year for the NGO, which provides funds to combat public health threats in...

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Rosemary Mburu

When President Trump’s cuts to international aid budgets in 2025 impacted work to eliminate malaria, HIV, and TB, Rosemary Mburu knew it was time for a bold new global health strategy. Mburu, a civil society...

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Thierry Diagana

Malaria deaths were declining not that long ago. Now, they have ticked back up. The disease, spread by mosquitoes, currently kills more than 600,000 people annually, most of them children under 5 in Africa. While...

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Ghyslain Mombo-Ngoma

Malaria kills more than half a million people a year, mostly children. Treatment requires repeated doses over time, a tall order for people who might have to travel many miles to reach a clinic, and...

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Zhou Songyang

Tuberculosis kills more than 1 million people annually, and every year, 10 million new cases are diagnosed. The early stages of TB, when it’s already infectious, can be hard to recognize, and existing diagnostic tests...

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Gideon Lack

Nearly two decades ago, Dr. Gideon Lack, professor of pediatric allergy at King’s College London, and his colleagues asked: Would giving infants peanuts protect them from developing peanut allergies? At the time, nothing could have...

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Waseem Qasim and Alyssa Tapley

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Emil Lou and Emma Dimery

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