About the list

The TIME100 Next list, which was launched in 2019, was created "with the belief that the nature of influence was changing," understanding that "influence can now come early and, when it does, through channels that work outside the establishment."

This year, individuals were recognized in five different categories:

• Artists
• Phenoms
• Advocates
• Leaders
• Innovators

The healthcare leaders on the TIME100 Next

The TIME100 Next list includes several individuals, listed in alphabetical order below, who have impacted healthcare:

• Wawira Njiru, who runs the Kenya-based nonprofit Food 4 Education, which coordinates with thousands of employees, hundreds of kitchens, farmers, technology, and distribution to deliver over 600,000 meals to children each day across 1,500 schools.
• Mathilde Poyet & Mathieu Groussin, scientists at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology who founded the Global Microbiome Conservancy to collect and preserve gut microbes from remote communities in 2016. Since then, they have built a collection preserving tens of thousands of bacteria from around the world as a resource for future generations.
• Claudia Queragama, an Indigenous Emberá Katío leader from Columbia who earlier this year helped spearhead the first law in Latin America to eradicate female genital mutilation.
• Marie-Roseline Darnycka Belizaire, who is working with the World Health Organization (WHO) to combat the current Ebola epidemic in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. She is negotiating secure access for WHO and its partners to trace contacts, carry out safe and dignified burials, and vaccinate those most at risk.
• Isidora Uribe Silva, a Chilean teenager with cerebral palsy who founded Fundación Encuentra Tu Lugar (translated as "Find Your Place") to help people with disabilities thrive in education, employment, and community life.