Youth Groups

AKAYA Foundation exists to ensure that the girls most affected by global health inequity have a voice in the rooms where decisions are made about their lives. WHS 2026 represents exactly that room. We work at the intersection of health education, girls' empowerment, and community-led systems change across Ghana, the UK, and Kenya; and we want to bring that grassroots evidence directly into global health dialogue.

The World Health Summit offers a unique opportunity for ANEM to contribute the perspectives of over 12,000 Portuguese medical students to global health discussions while learning from international experts and organisations. We aim to strengthen our advocacy, build meaningful partnerships, and translate innovative solutions into national initiatives that advance medical education, public health, and health policy.

As Hong Kong prepares to host the upcoming WHS Regional Meeting, the Organising Committee has kindly invited AMSAHK to provide input on the sessions that will be held. By attending the WHS in Berlin, it will allow our members to gain a deeper understanding of the meaningful work that goes on, and enhance the perspectives that we can provide for the WHS RM. Furthermore, the close alignment of our objectives in global health will hopefully give us new ways to serve our community with impact.

In 10 years, ASPOL grew from a community of Polish students at Sciences Po into a more diverse network, including medical and public policy students in France. This gives us a comparative perspective on health education and healthcare in France and Poland. Through WHS and building on our recent cooperation with UNESCO’s Paris headquarters, we want to develop a stronger health-related programme for the next Paris Polish Forum in April and for our Franco-Polish community.

Our organization has represented Austrian medical students since 1951 and aims to give medical students a voice and a platform to form their education outside the regular curriculum. Going to the WHS would give our members the opportunity to learn more about various topics relating to health, connect with others, and exchange experiences and ideas. Our delegation last year was very inspired and shared a lot of amazing insights, so we would love to have the chance again!

The Deaf Youth Congress seeks to participate in the World Health Summit 2026 to represent deaf youth and advance disability-inclusive healthcare. We aim to learn from global experts, share our experiences, build partnerships, and promote accessible health systems. The knowledge gained will strengthen our advocacy and help improve health equity for deaf communities in Kenya.

Empower Mind Initiative is a youth-led mental health organization from Zomba, Malawi, reaching 5,000+ young people through school and university psychoeducation, with a UNICEF district partnership. WHS offers a rare chance to connect with global health actors, learn how other models integrate youth-led mental health work into health systems, and bring back strategies to strengthen ours. We want youth mental health elevated in global health discourse and to build partnerships.

FAMSA represents medical students across Africa, the continent bearing the greatest disease burden yet producing future health leaders. Participating in WHS 2026 allows us to amplify African youth voices in global health policy, connect our members with cutting-edge innovations, and align our continental advocacy with global health priorities. We bring grassroots perspectives and the commitment of 54 nations' future physicians.

We aim to participate in WHS 2026 to amplify the voices of marginalized women and survivors of gender-based violence (GBV) in conflict-affected regions like the DRC. Attending will allow us to share grassroots insights on how gender inequality impacts healthcare access, connect with global health leaders, and acquire evidence-based strategies to integrate comprehensive sexual and reproductive health services into our community advocacy and protection frameworks.

We aim to bring insights and innovative ideas from the World Health Summit back into our German Public Health community, while strengthening youth networks and fostering new international collaboration in the health-sector.

GPC would like to participate to highlight the intersections of health, peace, and climate change while also uplifting, championing, and empowering our youth members. Conflict prevention and resolution, peacebuilding, and diplomacy are prophylactic for good health and wellbeing. Youth are not only future leaders and changemakers but also current ones and thus key to positively affecting health outcomes. This is a unique opportunity to share our perspectives, expertise, and lived experiences.

The Global Health Edit is a youth-led organisation making global health accessible and engaging for young people. We want to participate to learn from global leaders, contribute youth perspectives and build connections across the sector. We would use the experience to strengthen our work and share key insights with our wider youth community, as well as inspire greater youth engagement in global health.

As Vietnam’s first youth-led health equity org, HADEUS views global health learning as a foundation for our annual advocacy planning (e.g., One Young World Summit 2024, FP2030 Asia-Pacific's workshop 2025). Attending WHS 2026 aligns that and amplifies our core impact this year: promoting voices & systemic recognition for the young health workforce (YHW). Engaging in topics like "Preparedness and Equity" enables us to translate our grassroots actions (community stories) into high-level priorities

IFMSA seeks to participate in WHS 2026 to ensure meaningful youth engagement in global health governance. As one of the world's largest youth-led organizations representing medical students, we aim to contribute evidence-informed perspectives to discussions on Global Health Architecture, sustainable financing, UHC, climate and health, and digital health while strengthening the capacity of future health professionals and translating global commitments into local action.

The International Student One Health Alliance (ISOHA) seeks to connect youth perspectives with global health decision-making. Participating in the World Health Summit 2026 will strengthen our capacity to build partnerships, exchange innovative ideas, and empower young leaders to advance One Health, universal health coverage, health accessibility, and health literacy through interdisciplinary collaboration and community action.

We want to represent the voices of over 600,000 pharmacy students and recent graduates worldwide, bringing the pharmacy perspective to discussions on resilient and equitable health systems. We hope to strengthen collaborations, share youth-led experiences, and translate WHS discussions into action for our members. We are also co-organising a youth side event with IFMSA to amplify young health professionals' voices and engagement.

FAMSA represents medical students across Africa, the continent bearing the greatest disease burden yet producing future health leaders. Participating in WHS 2026 allows us to amplify African youth voices in global health policy, connect our members with cutting-edge innovations, and align our continental advocacy with global health priorities. We bring grassroots perspectives and the commitment of 54 nations' future physicians.

YAG is a dynamic and diverse youth-led initiative passionate about health. Participating in the WHS would allow us to learn from experts and best practices worldwide, take part in critical conversations about key public health (and geopolitical) challenges and innovation, connect with the global health community, and contribute to amplifying youth voices in the health space. We look forward to intergenerational cooperation and building our capacity in the areas of central themes and more!

Mother and Child Health Foundation seeks to participate in WHS 2026 to strengthen our capacity to improve maternal, child, and adolescent health through evidence-based solutions. We hope to learn from global experts, build partnerships, and contribute our grassroots experiences in youth-led health programs. The knowledge gained will enhance our initiatives and help us scale sustainable community health interventions across Nigeria.

SCOPH-MKU is motivated to participate in WHS 2026 to bridge grassroots action with global policy. We have implemented cervical cancer screening, mental health advocacy, and intersectoral partnerships. WHS offers a platform to share these innovations, learn from global leaders, and advocate for youth-led, community-centered health solutions.We are committed to contributing African voices and student perspectives to shape resilient, good health systems and ensure local health challenges are solved

Nightingales Impact Initiative seeks to participate in the World Health Summit 2026 to connect with global health leaders, exchange ideas, and contribute African perspectives to conversations on health systems strengthening. As a youth-led organization focused on nursing leadership and healthcare advocacy, we aim to learn from global best practices, build partnerships, and bring back knowledge that will empower young healthcare professionals and improve health outcomes in our communities.

We seek to participate in the World Health Summit 2026 to share our experience bridging community realities, research, and policy while learning from global innovations. As a youth-led organisation from Tanzania, we aim to build partnerships, strengthen health governance, advance One Health and antimicrobial resistance action, and bring back practical solutions that improve health systems and amplify youth voices in global health decision-making.

We want to represent Palestinian youth voices and contribute to global health discussions. Our diverse team includes members with different experiences and roles within PMSA, such as the National Supervising Council Officer, public health Officer, and Exchange Officers. This diversity allows us to bring perspectives from health advocacy, community engagement, international collaboration, and medical education. We aim to learn, exchange knowledge, and strengthen our impact in our communities.

Power Minds Youth Organisation seeks to participate in the World Health Summit 2026 to strengthen our community-based youth health programmes. We aim to learn evidence-based approaches to Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights (SRHR), mental health, and youth engagement, build partnerships with global health stakeholders, and apply the knowledge gained to improve health outcomes for young people and vulnerable communities in Uganda.

QH is a queer youth health provider led organization that built LGBTIQ+ inclusive healthcare training without institutional backing, because no one else was doing it in Nepal. We want to join WHS 2026 to bring this tested, low-resource model into a space that rarely includes LGBTIQ+ health or youth-led groups like ours. We also want to learn directly from other youth and civil society organizations working under similar constraints, and test whether our model can adapt beyond our own context.

Saha al-Jami (“Health for All” in Moroccan Darija/Arabic) is a student-led initiative improving health literacy through culturally sensitive prevention and education in underserved communities in Morocco. Attending the World Health Summit 2026 would allow us to learn from global experts, exchange best practices, build partnerships, and bring innovative ideas back to strengthen our community-based health initiatives.

We want to engage with health leaders, professionals, researchers and youth advocates, collect testimonies and ideas to inspire our members, contribute the perspective of young Italian future doctors in panels and workshops, and strengthen our capacity to support meaningful youth participation in health governance in Italy.

Smart Aid Initiative wants to participate in WHS 2026 to deepen our expertise in three areas: youth-led health equity in conflict-affected communities, digital inclusion/data literacy for health resilience, and safeguarding against gender-based and technology-facilitated harms. From Northern Nigeria, we bring practical experience working with young people, women, girls and underserved groups to turn exclusion into agency, protection and community-led resilience.

As a youth-led initiative, Speak Now encourages youth with lived experience to create change in their own communities. We want to contribute our range of perspectives, experiences, and ideas that have directly resulted from participating in unique living situations to global discussions and empower youth in our own community to network with professionals that they would otherwise not be able to; in past projects, networking has been key, allowing our team to go from affecting 100 to 1.5M+ youth.

Students for Global Health is the UK's largest student-led global health organisation, bringing together students from diverse academic, cultural and socioeconomic backgrounds to advance health equity. At the World Health Summit, we hope to contribute these perspectives, learn from global leaders and forge new collaborations that strengthen our advocacy, policy and education, sharing those insights across our nationwide network of branches, members, partners and future healthcare professionals.

As a youth-led organisation from Taiwan, we are committed to empowering young professionals through global health education and international collaboration. As Taiwan’s participation in many international health platforms remains limited, the summit provides a valuable opportunity for us to engage in global dialogue, build partnerships, and bring youth perspectives to the international community. We will transform experiences into long-term capacity building and youth engagement in Taiwan.

TAMSA Tanzania is a youth-led organization equipping tomorrow's doctors for global health. With 12+ chapters nationwide and a growing external presence — from IFMSA assemblies to WHS 2025 and WHS Regional Meeting 2026, we bring diverse, ground-level perspectives to global dialogues. With a Tanzanian now leading WHO AFRO, we see a pivotal moment to amplify young Tanzanian voices, and WHS 2026 is where that begins.

We seek to participate in the World Health Summit 2026 to bring the perspectives and experiences of refugee and underserved youth into global health discussions. As a refugee-led organization working at the intersection of education, leadership, peacebuilding, and community development, we witness how challenges such as poor mental health, limited health information, displacement, and social exclusion affect young people every day.

We launched our Youth Declaration on Creating Healthy Societies at WHS 2024. We return with a new cohort to report on progress, test our work, and build partnerships that outlast the Summit.

JDN-WMA would like to participate in WHS 2026 to continue building meaningful youth physician engagement in global health. After two previous WHS delegations, including WHS 2025 where JDN represented WMA in a speaking slot and brought a diverse delegation, we aim to deepen our contribution on workforce, equity, AMR, immunization and resilient health systems. Free tickets would broaden access for young doctors who can translate WHS learning into advocacy and education.

Young Africans Network (YAN) seeks to participate in the World Health Summit 2026 to amplify African youth voices in global health. We aim to learn from experts, share our work in mental health, youth empowerment, and digital health innovation, and build partnerships that strengthen community impact. We will transfer the knowledge gained through trainings, outreach, and youth-led initiatives across the communities we serve.

Youth Climate and Health Network (YCHN) brings together nearly 300 young health champions from around the world working on climate and health. The Summit is a valuable space to learn, share experiences, and bring youth perspectives into global health discussions. As our intergenerational dialogue on environmental drivers of health has been selected as a side event, this opportunity would allow more members to participate in the session and connect with diverse stakeholders across the Summit.

Our motivation is to share how Ukraine engages young people in health policymaking while maintaining a resilient health system under wartime pressure. We want to exchange lessons on youth retention, preventing brain drain, and meaningful participation in decision-making. At the same time, we seek a broader global health perspective to identify where Ukraine’s experience can contribute internationally and bring this knowledge back to our national youth network.

The Summit’s themes - the strain of global crises on health, the concentration of power in specific people and areas, and weak collective action - resonate with YfPH. We examine these issues through the lens of climate crises and their impacts on health. We aim to empower youth, especially in vulnerable regions, in planetary health, and promote collective action with our international team. At the Summit, we hope to connect with like-minded groups, share knowledge, and learn to expand our work.

The WHS offers a unique opportunity to learn from organizations working across different sectors and regions. We believe young people must play a meaningful role in shaping the future of global health, and to accomplish that need a seat at the table. Attending the WHS will let us, connect with global health leaders and develop our network and partnerships, allowing us to further amplify our voices. As well as provide the opportunity for our members and volunteers to attend this prestigious event