This startling disparity is partly what drove Angela Doyinsola Aina to co-found Black Mamas Matter Alliance in 2016. “We wanted to be able to define the solutions we know can end maternal mortality ...

Nathan White, CEO of Cibolo Health, had an idea that would allow small rural hospitals to stay independent: create a clinically independent network of hospitals that would operate like a co-operative, ...

After years of effort by Governor Michelle Lujan Grisham and the state legislature, New Mexico in 2025 became the first U.S. state to offer free universal childcare, covering children from six weeks ...

Nearly three decades ago, Brian Ahmedani was part of the Henry Ford Health team that developed the Zero Suicide model for health care providers: a novel framework built on the idea that suicide is ...

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?

In 2022, Alyssa Tapley, then 13, was told that her cancer—a form of T-cell acute lymphoblastic leukemia—was terminal. As a last resort, she enrolled in a clinical trial at the U.K.’s Great Ormond ...

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 ...

Find out why Ilaria Villa is on the TIME100 Health 2026 list.

Darrell Irvine has figured out how to make treatments and vaccines more potent so they do a better job at safely triggering the immune system to fight diseases such as cancer and HIV. His lab, for ...

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 ...

Florent Geerts, managing director at Delft, says the company is starting to see women coming in earlier and getting more frequent scans because they’d heard about BabyChecker AI. “We believe our tech ...

In 2007, molecular biologist Thierry Diagana, head of global health biomedical research at Novartis, and his colleagues were searching for fresh drugs against malaria, medicines that the parasites had ...