--- description: Find out how Joseph Osmundson is shaping the future and defining the next generation of leadership. title: 2022 TIME100 Next: Joseph Osmundson image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt2dbd958ec9a9b12a/698a35f209208f24fd4199d2/time100-joseph-osmundson.jpeg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 --- Sep 28, 2022 # Joseph Osmundson by [Jamie Ducharme](/author/jamie-ducharme/) ## Jamie Ducharme Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Ducharme is a contributor to TIME.  Ted Ely In May—when many in the U.S. were still asking, “What’s [monkeypox](https://time.com/6203173/monkeypox-spread-transmission/ "undefined")?”—Joseph Osmundson offered a warning. The molecular biologist [co-authored an op-ed](https://www.nytimes.com/2022/05/29/opinion/monkeypox-covid-and-hiv.html "undefined") predicting that the U.S. wasn’t prepared to contain the virus—and indeed, diagnoses soon swelled. Since then, the author of the [essay collection ](https://wwnorton.com/books/virology "undefined")_Virology_ has been instrumental in guiding New York City’s vaccine distribution, helping implement a program that brings shots to places where people meet for sex and pushing for more inclusive eligibility criteria. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"Article","@id":"https://time.com/collections/time100-next-2022/6213807/joseph-osmundson/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/collections/time100-next-2022/6213807/joseph-osmundson/"},"headline":"Joseph Osmundson","datePublished":"2022-09-28T09:54:25.000Z","dateModified":"2026-03-03T00:06:06.247Z","description":"","url":"https://time.com/collections/time100-next-2022/6213807/joseph-osmundson/","keywords":["TIME 100 Next"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt2dbd958ec9a9b12a/698a35f209208f24fd4199d2/time100-joseph-osmundson.jpeg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Jamie Ducharme","jobTitle":"Ducharme is a contributor to TIME.","url":"https://time.com/author/jamie-ducharme/"}],"creator":"Jamie Ducharme","articleSection":"","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt2dbd958ec9a9b12a/698a35f209208f24fd4199d2/time100-joseph-osmundson.jpeg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/collections/time100-next-2022/6213807/joseph-osmundson/","name":"Joseph Osmundson"}}]},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"VideoObject","name":"TIME100 Next: See Every Honoree","description":"See every 2022 TIME100 Next honoree in under two minutes.","thumbnailUrl":"https://cdn.jwplayer.com/v2/media/i4LJ3fau/poster.jpg?width=720","uploadDate":"2022-09-28T10:00:00.000Z","contentUrl":"https://cdn.jwplayer.com/manifests/i4LJ3fau.m3u8","embedUrl":"https://time.com/collections/time100-next-2022/6213807/joseph-osmundson/","duration":"PT1M59S","potentialAction":{"@type":"SeekToAction","target":"https://time.com/collections/time100-next-2022/6213807/joseph-osmundson/?jw_start={seek_to_second_number}","startOffset-input":"required name=seek_to_second_number"}}] ```