From Crisis to Resilience: Innovating for Health ▶️ This is the 2026 World Health Summit leitmotif. Health around the world is being challenged by compounding crises, including conflict, geopolitical tensions, economic strain, the climate crisis, and social injustice. These converging pressures are testing systems, widening inequities, and exposing vulnerabilities that cannot be addressed through reactive, short-term responses. Addressing the health challenges of our time requires more than cris

🌍 Global health progress in a fragmenting world - the World Health Summit Report 2025 The #WHS2025 Report underscores a powerful lesson: meaningful progress in global health is a team effort. This year’s Summit once again brought together leaders and experts from across the world - and the results speak for themselves. 📘 The newly released report outlines how this year’s Summit advanced efforts to strengthen the global health architecture amid increasing global division, highlighting the commi

The World Health Summit is a place of encounters, of inspiration, of hope. From politics, science, the private sector, and civil society – people from all over the world came together at #WHS2025 with one shared goal: #HealthForAll. Amid global challenges – from the climate crisis to future pandemics – we see that change is possible when we listen, exchange, and act together. 💡🤝 The ideas born here continue beyond these days: into partnerships, projects, and real improvements for people and so

🌐 Throughout three days, the World Health Summit 2025 brought together leaders and changemakers to tackle the world’s most pressing health challenges – across more than 75 sessions and 85 side events. 📍 4,000 participants in Berlin 💻 40,000 participants online 🎤 400 speakers from across sectors 🌍 Representing 144 countries Key milestones included Germany’s renewed commitment to global health with a EUR 1 billion pledge to the Global Fund, and the launch of new global health data and evidenc

🌍 The World Health Summit 2025 was officially opened with Germany’s €1 Billion Commitment to the Global Fund. At the WHS Opening Night 2025, WHS President Axel R. Pries and Rosebella Alungata Iseme-Ondiek, Assistant Professor at Aga Khan University, warmly welcomed a packed house of global health leaders and changemakers in Berlin. During the event, Reem Alabali Radovan, Federal Minister for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ), announced Germany’s financial commitment of 1 billion euros

Gates Foundation commits extra €1.23 billion to eradicate polio