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World Health Summit 2025

Taking Responsibility for Health in a Fragmenting World

October 12-14

Welcome to the World Health Summit

The World Health Summit is the unique international strategic platform for global health. It brings together stakeholders from politics, science, the private sector, and civil society from around the world to set the agenda for a healthier future by inspiring innovative solutions for better health and wellbeing for all.

The World Health Summit strengthens collaboration and open dialogue guided by science, fosters global health as a key political issue and promotes the global health debate in the spirit of the UN Sustainable Development Goals..

4,000+
Participants On-Site
10,000+
Participants Online
400+
Speakers
70+
Sessions
50+
Side Events
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

$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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