Harry Goldhagen 
Dr. John Downing, an ophthalmologist with over 60 years of experience, has dedicated his career to fighting preventable blindness worldwide through his work with Orbis International, training local doctors and funding vision centers in underserved regions.
Dr. David Fajgenbaum and his team at Every Cure are leveraging artificial intelligence to find new uses for existing medications, offering hope to patients with rare diseases who have exhausted conventional treatment options.
As climate change intensifies droughts in the Amazon rainforest, traditional midwives like Tabita dos Santos Moraes become lifelines for pregnant women in remote communities where once-navigable rivers have shrunk to impassable streams, making the journey to hospitals dangerous or impossible.
As a third-year Resident at McGill University, Dr. Pundir brings expertise in ophthalmology to underserved communities through Orbis’s Flying Eye Hospital, combining research excellence with a deep commitment to global eye health education.
Australian Red Cross Lifeblood’s most remarkable donor, James Harrison, known as “The Man with the Golden Arm,” helped save an estimated 2.4 million babies with his rare anti-D antibody.