How Taraji P. Henson Is Confronting the Mental Health Crisis

With over 5 million followers on TikTok, Retirement House has officially gone viral, even if most of the account’s cast members didn’t know what the platform was when they got the gig.

A record-breaking Malaysian student and graduate of the prestigious University of Cambridge School of Clinical Medicine, surgeon Dr. Amalina Bakri has still faced her fair share of discrimination in the medical field. We talked to her about the importance of increasing female representation in the profession, and how she’s using her social media presence (with over 1 million followers across all channels) as a force for good.

Shanelle Gabriel is a poet and singer living with the autoimmune disease lupus. Since being diagnosed, she’s become an advocate for others who have autoimmune diseases, and often talks about the importance of increasing diversity in clinical trials, which she utilized to receive novel treatment for her condition.