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World Health Summit 2025

Taking Responsibility for Health in a Fragmenting World

October 12-14

The countdown for #WHS2025 is on

Soon, the World Health Summit 2025 - the leading global platform for health - will take place in Berlin and online.

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Are you ready for this year's World Health Summit? Discover central topics, high-level speakers, participation info and more.

Held in a new venue for the first time, WHS 2025 will once again bring together global health experts in over 70 sessions. Across three days, the discussions will catalyze solutions for pressing health challenges. Speakers and participants represent academia, politics, private sector, and civil society in global health and beyond.

Portrait of Tedros Adhanom  Ghebreyesus
Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus
Director-General
World Health Organization (WHO)
Portrait of Nina Warken
Nina Warken
Federal Minister
Federal Ministry of Health (BMG)
Germany
Portrait of Reem  Alabali-Radovan
Reem Alabali-Radovan
Federal Minister
Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ)
Germany
Portrait of Diene  Keita
Diene Keita
Executive Director
United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA)
Portrait of Helen Clark
Helen Clark
Alliance for Health Policy and Systems Research (AHSPR) & Global Alliance for Vaccines and Immunization (GAVI)
Neuseeland

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Program

From climate and health to digital innovation, equity, and global governance: the World Health Summit 2025 program explores the most pressing global health challenges and opportunities.

Portrait of Friedrich Merz
"As our world navigates shared challenges, the call to take responsibility for the common good has become more urgent than ever. [...] Many important decisions today can only be made together and multilaterally to achieve common goals. For this, we need shared knowledge, common rules and the courage to take on global responsibility."
Friedrich Merz
Federal Chancellor of Germany
Portrait of Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus
"Health is not a cost to be contained. It is an investment to be nurtured – an investment in people, stability and economic growth. [...] Around the world, dramatic reductions in aid are having severe impacts on health services in many developing countries, as billions of dollars supporting vital programmes disappeared virtually overnight. These disruptions are affecting millions of people who are missing out on life-saving services and medicines."
Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus
Director-General of the World Health Organization (WHO)
Portrait of Emmanuel Macron
“Access to health is a fundamental right, but it is also a tireless fight. It requires resolute commitment, as it is one of the pillars upon which countries build their development and people have the means to shape their future. [...] It is our responsibility to make sure that all the fields involved in the global health architecture work better together, to build a more sustainable system."
Emmanuel Macron
President of the French Republic

Side Meetings

Alongside the World Health Summit, a diverse range of side events, launches, and partner sessions will take place.

Portrait of Axel R. Pries
The members of the World Health Summit and its academic network, the WHS Academic Alliance, are convinced that global health crises can be tackled only through worldwide collaboration. An international, interdisciplinary, and intersectoral forum like the World Health Summit, convening leading experts from science, politics, business, and civil society from all over the world in an environment of academic freedom and friendship, couldn’t be more important right now and in the foreseeable future.
Axel R. Pries
World Health Summit President

Impact

As a catalyst, the World Health Summit fosters innovative and sustainable solutions for global health.

50% reduction

in premature mortality by 2050 announced as goal of Global Health 2050, launched by the Lancet Commission on Investing in Health 3.0 at WHS 2024

$1 billion

pledged for the WHO Investment Round at the WHS 2024 Signature Event

50 million women

are affected by Female Genital Schistosomiasis.The new Invest in Women, Invest in Health initiative was launched by the German Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development at WHS 2024

$445 million

committed for 250 million women, children, and youth at the Global Financing Facility (GFF) pledging event during WHS 2023

$2.6 billion

of funding pledged towards the Global Polio Eradication Initiative's (GPEI) strategy to end polio by global leaders at WHS 2022

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Behind the World Health Summit stands a powerful academic network of leading institutions around the world. Explore the WHS Academic Alliance members, projects, publications, and activities, as well as the annual WHS Regional Meeting.

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