The article profiles several notable individuals who made significant contributions in closing the health gap across the world including Raed Al Saleh, leader of the Syrian Civil Defense in Syria, neuroscientists Petra Vertes and Kirstie Whitaker, and fertility specialist John Zhang. Raed Al Saleh has saved many people including civilians, rebels and government soldiers. Vertes and Whitaker discovered why mental illness often appears in adolescence using the Allen Brain Atlas, which maps regions of the brain by gene expression, Zhang pioneered a procedure that allow parents with rare mitchondrial disease to have a healthy baby.