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The World Health Summit is the international platform for global health. Every October, the summit brings together more than 300 speakers and 4,000+ participants from politics, science, medicine, the private sector, and civil society. Through cross-sectoral collaboration, the summit has already achieved significant milestones on the path to a healthier, more equitable world.

WHS 2025

Global Burden of Disease Study 2023

Latest Global Burden of Disease Study 2023 launched at WHS 2025, revealing declining mortality but rising youth deaths and widening inequities.

EUR 1 billion

pledged by Germany to the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria at the WHS 2025

State of the World’s Emotional Health 2025

The report, launched during the WHS 2025, is the first of its kind highlighting that peace, health, and emotional wellbeing are deeply interconnected, showing that they fall and rise together.

GPMB 2025 Report

The Global Preparedness Monitoring Board (GPMB) 2025 Report was presented at the World Health Summit 2025, emphasizing the urgent need for stronger global preparedness systems and accountability to prevent future health crises.

EUR 100 million

committed by Germany during the World Health Summit 2025 to the Coalition for Epidemic Preparedness Innovations (CEPI) to strengthen global vaccine development and pandemic preparedness

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Germany pledges EUR 1 billion to the Global Fund

At the World Health Summit 2025 Opening Night, Germany announced a pledge of EUR 1 billion to the Global Fund to fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria, reaffirming its commitment to global health and international solidarity.

Presentation of the Global Burden of Disease Study 2023

Presented at the WHS 2025, the latest Global Burden of Disease Study revealed a decline in global mortality but a concerning rise in youth deaths and widening health inequities, calling for renewed focus on equitable health policies.

Germany pledges EUR 100 million to CEPI

Germany announced an additional EUR 100 million contribution to the Coalition for Epidemic Preparedness Innovations (CEPI) at the World Health Summit. This pledge is strengthening international efforts to accelerate vaccine development and pandemic preparedness.

Launch of the Gallup State of the World’s Emotional Health 2025 in partnership with the World Health Summit.

The report, launched during the WHS 2025, is the first of its kind highlighting that peace, health, and emotional wellbeing are deeply interconnected, showing that they fall and rise together.

Release of the Global Preparedness Monitoring Board (GPMB) 2025 Report

The GPMB 2025 Report was presented at the World Health Summit 2025, emphasizing the urgent need for stronger global preparedness systems and accountability to prevent future health crises.

WHS Academic Alliance Declaration 2025

The WHS Academic Alliance published the WHS Academic Alliance Declaration 2025 in Nature Medicine. In this official WHS Academic Alliance Declaration, members of the WHS Academic Alliance highlight the importance of free science and global partnerships to achieve worldwide health goals.

WHS 2024

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

Signature Event for the WHO Investment Round

At the World Health Summit 2024, the largest donor event for the WHO Investment Round raised one billion USD in pledges. The summit was held under the theme “All for Health, Health for All” and included high-level speakers such as Federal Chancellor Olaf Scholz, Chair of the Gates Foundation Bill Gates, and WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus.

Launch of Global Health 2050: The Lancet Commission on Investing in Health 3.0

The Lancet Commission launched its third report on Investing in Health (CIH 3.0) Global Health 2050, highlighting how focused health investments can improve global welfare by 2050. The report reveals that countries committed to the "50 by 50" goal could achieve a 50% reduction in premature deaths (death before the age of 70) by 2050.

Launch of the Climate Overshoot Commission’s Policy Paper

The Climate Overshoot Commission launched its policy paper "Reducing the Health Risks of Climate Overshoot." As the world approaches the 1.5°C limit and human health becomes more critical, the paper emphasizes the need to put public health at the core of global climate responses and governance.

Presentation of the Initiative "Invest in Women, Invest in Health"

The German Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development launched its "Invest in Women, Invest in Health" initiative to combat Female Genital Schistosomiasis (FGS), a neglected tropical disease affecting over 50 million women worldwide.

Launch of the GPMB Pandemic Risk Report

The Global Preparedness Monitoring Board (GPMB) released its report "The Changing Face of Pandemic Risk." It outlines key drivers of pandemic risk and offers a roadmap for global leaders, policy-makers, health professionals, and communities to build a safer, more resilient future.

Inauguration of the WomenX Collective Berlin Hub

The United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA), in partnership with Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin and Berlin Institute of Health (BIH), launched the WomenX Collective Berlin Hub. The hub aims to advance innovation, research, and investment in women’s health, with a focus on sexual and reproductive health. It is the first of its kind in an international network of centers.

The international community has set itself the goal of ensuring that every woman, man and child in the world has the chance of a healthy life. The World Health Summit shows that this goal does not have to remain a mere wish. This extraordinary dialogue forum is a particularly rich source of new solutions and ideas of benefit to humankind.

Angela Merkel

Chancellor of the Federal Republic of Germany (until 2021)

Forums such as the WHS are and remain indispensable. For they ensure that critical debate can take place which provides space for different perspectives and allows free academic exchange at the highest level, thereby laying the foundation for knowledge-based and rational policymaking.

Olaf Scholz

Chancellor of the Federal Republic of Germany

We have no choice but learn from the current crisis and be better equipped for the next pandemic. This is our responsibility as leaders. In order to do better, we must understand better and rely on scientific work. That is what the WHS is all about!

Emmanuel Macron

President of the French Republic

In today’s world, we need to look after our health by looking after our planet, our wellbeing and our sustainable development. And we need to do it together—through global health cooperation and not through global health com petition. This is the aim of this conference.

Ursula von der Leyen

President of the European Commission

As a founding member of the organising committee for the first World Health Summit, and now as a patron, I am delighted to see how this event has gone from strength to strength. It is now one of the most important meetings on the global health calendar (...)

Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus

Director-General, World Health Organization (WHO)

One of Europe’s largest university hospitals, Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin is dedicated to forward-looking science, quality education, and innovation in healthcare. Since its inception at Charité in 2009, the World Health Summit has become a leading forum for these principles. Strengthening partnerships and collaborations—among institutions, across sectors, beyond specialties and across borders—is key to maximizing the impact of innovation in medicine and science.

Heyo Kroemer

CEO, Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Germany

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