The list

This year, TIME recognized people in six categories:

• Artists
• Innovators
• Titans
• Leaders
• Icons
• Pioneers

The list included individuals, listed in alphabetical order below, who have affected healthcare, including:

• Lauren Blauvelt, co-chair of Ohioans United for Reproductive Rights, who helped create Issue 1 in Ohio, the citizen ballot initiative that enshrined the right to abortion in the state's constitution.
• Mark Cuban, co-founder of Mark Cuban Cost Plus Drug Co., which offers generic medications at a significant discount.
• Ophelia Dahl, co-founder of Partners in Health, which offers high-quality healthcare to millions of impoverished people around the world.
• Joel Habener, Svetlana Mojsov, and Dan Drucker, scientists whose research helped with the development of GLP-1 weight-loss medications like Ozempic, Wegovy, Mounjaro, and Zepbound.
• Rachel Hardeman, who has conducted antiracism research on the maternal health crisis in the United States.
• Akiko Iwasaki, an immunologist and professor at Yale University, who has conducted extensive research into how the human immune system reacts to COVID-19 and the consequences of long COVID.
• Stuart Orkin, a scientist whose research helped lead to the first gene therapy using CRISPR to treat sickle cell disease.
•  Dave Ricks, CEO of Eli Lilly, the drugmaker behind the GLP-1 weight-loss medication tirzepatide, which is solid as a diabetes treatment under the brand name Mounjaro and under Zepbound as an obesity treatment.

(TIME "100 Most Influential People 2024," accessed 4/18)

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