https://time.com/7284464/health-impact-dinner-toasts-bill-nye-tahmeed-ahmed-ronita-nath-damar-hamlin/ https://cdn.jwplayer.com/v2/media/5K3wbFRy/poster.jpg?width=720 Watch Bill Nye's Toast at the TIME100 Impact Dinner: Leaders Shaping the Future of Health Bill Nye, advocate, science educator, and TV host, donned a signature bow tie as he took the stage. Over the past year in particular he’s been using his celebrity to bring awareness to the importance of supporting scientific research and to urge citizens to speak out to lawmakers about the disruptive reductions made by the Trump Administration at vital agencies like the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, the National Institutes of Health, and NASA. https://cdn.jwplayer.com/manifests/5K3wbFRy.m3u8 https://cdn.jwplayer.com/previews/5K3wbFRy 295 2025-05-14T03:12:14+00:00 no no https://cdn.jwplayer.com/v2/media/4EuZQhEP/poster.jpg?width=720 Watch Dr. Tahmeed Ahmed's Toast at the TIME100 Impact Dinner: Leaders Shaping the Future of Health Dr. Tahmeed Ahmed, executive director of ICDDR Bangladesh, spoke about how treating malnutrition improves human dignity for more than 200 million women and children worldwide. For the last 40 years, he’s been working to improve and simplify the treatment for malnutrition. Research has gradually revealed that malnutrition is not only caused by lack of food but also by intestine-damaging bacteria introduced through poor hygiene that can result in poor nutrient absorption. Based on these findings, Ahmed and Dr. Jeffrey Gordon from the Washington University at St. Louis developed a treatment that incorporates beneficial gut bugs that could be easily dispensed into food products by local producers. https://cdn.jwplayer.com/manifests/4EuZQhEP.m3u8 https://cdn.jwplayer.com/previews/4EuZQhEP 312 2025-05-14T02:11:40+00:00 no no https://cdn.jwplayer.com/v2/media/jEV4OYxN/poster.jpg?width=720 Watch Ronita Nath's Toast at the TIME100 Impact Dinner: Leaders Shaping the Future of Health Ronita Nath, vice president of research at the Trevor Project, first shined the spotlight on her fellow honorees in the room. “Your breakthroughs are redefining what’s possible in health and humanity, and it’s a privilege to stand alongside you this evening,” she says. Nath then toasted “every LGBTQ+ young person daring to live authentically in a world that too often misunderstands them” and shared her own experience raising a transgender child. https://cdn.jwplayer.com/manifests/jEV4OYxN.m3u8 https://cdn.jwplayer.com/previews/jEV4OYxN 237 2025-05-14T03:13:53+00:00 no no https://cdn.jwplayer.com/v2/media/8UUinjjU/poster.jpg?width=720 Watch Damar Hamlin' Toast at the TIME100 Impact Dinner: Leaders Shaping the Future of Health Damar Hamlin, NFL player and philanthropist, tells the crowd that “if you had told me just a couple of years ago that I’d be giving a toast at the TIME100 Health Impact Dinner … I probably would’ve told you you were crazy.” But life doesn’t always go as planned, he acknowledges. His sudden cardiac arrest on the field in 2023 and the journey that followed have made him realize that his mission is bigger than football. https://cdn.jwplayer.com/manifests/8UUinjjU.m3u8 https://cdn.jwplayer.com/previews/8UUinjjU 320 2025-05-14T02:39:05+00:00 no no