TIME is revealing its second annual TIME100 Health list recognizing the 100 most influential individuals in health, and many of these individuals have or will have an impact on the field of dermatology.

The 2025 TIME100 Health list includes Princess of Wales Kate Middleton; U.S. Olympic athlete Ilona Maher; former NBA player Dwyane Wade; CEO of Eli Lilly David Ricks; Prime Minister of Australia Anthony Albanese; CEO of GSK Emma Walmsley; founder of Pivotal Ventures and philanthropist Melinda French Gates; director-general of the World Health Organization Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus; actor and advocate Colin Farrell; U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services Robert F. Kennedy Jr.; actors and founders of Hilarity for Charity Seth Rogen and Lauren Miller Rogen; activist Rachel Sweet; advocate, science educator and television host Bill Nye; CEO of Novartis Dr. Vas Narasimhan; vice president of health at Apple Dr. Sumbul Desai; Global Health Council president Elisha Dunn-Georgiou; U.S. FDA commissioner Dr. Marty Makary; and many more.

Here are three people on the TIME100 Health list whose work affects dermatology and dermatologists.

Huji Xu, PhD

Huji Xu, PhD, a Professor of Medicine at the Naval Medical University (NMU) and Tsinghua University and the Executive Associate Director of the National Key Laboratory for Immunity and Inflammation and the Chairman of Rheumatology & Immunology at Shanghai Changzheng Hospital, made the list for his efforts aimed at treating autoimmune diseases, TIME reports.

Xu and his team developed an allogeneic CAR-T therapy to target the root cause of autoimmune diseases. The therapy is first to use engineered immune cells from healthy donor cells to target B cells. His 2024 study, published in Cell, showed that their treatment led to unprecedented long-term remission in three patients with serious treatment-resistant autoimmune diseases. The method is also less costly and time-consuming than traditional CAR-T therapies that rely on the patient’s own cells. Since the 2024 study was published, Xu and his team have given the therapy, or a modified version, to an additional two dozen patients with positive results.

Placide Mbala, MD, MSPH, PhD

Placide Mbala, MD, MSPH, PhD, the Head of Epidemiology and Global Health at the National Institute of Biomedical Research, made the list for his efforts aimed at demystifying mpox.

Dr. Mbala first noted mpox cases surging across central Africa in 2024. He noticed an increase of infections among adults with localized lesions in the genital area. Through genomic analysis, Mbala discovered that the spike of new cases was not part of the clade IIb strain that was the origin of the 2022 epidemic, but a different subvariant often transmitted sexually, TIME reports.

His discovery helped alert local and international health officials to the new threat, and the World Health Organization declared it a global health emergency.

David Nussbaum

David Nussbaum made the TIME100 Health list for his efforts to make telemedicine visits more realistic. Nussbaum, The Founder of Proto Hologram, brought hologram technology to health care. The company now beams holograms of real doctors to clinics in rural areas, helping cut down on travel time while ensuring patients get a more realistic image of their provider during virtual appointments, TIME reports. Proto also offers translation services into nearly 300 languages, making it possible for doctors to talk to foreign-language-speaking patients without an interpreter.

The full list and related tributes appear in the May 26, 2025, issue of TIME, available on newsstands Friday, May 16, and now at time.com/time100health.

To assemble this list, TIME reporters and editors, with guidance from Dr. David Agus and Arianna Huffington, consulted sources and experts around the world to select the 100 individuals who are most influential in the world of health right now.  On this year’s list, TIME editors write:

“This year is unlike any other in the history of global health…. In a year of such upheaval, the TIME100 Health—100 people who are most influential in the world of health right now—looks a bit different.”

TIME will convene the TIME100 Impact Dinner: Leaders Shaping the Future to spotlight an array of leaders —including those featured on the 2025 TIME100 Health list —on May 13th in New York City.