Virchow Foundation

The Foundation’s mission is to promote global and public health

The Virchow Foundation strives to promote and raise awareness of global health issues in a targeted and comprehensive manner among the general public, both nationally and internationally, and to contribute to the improvement of global health.

The Virchow Foundation acknowledges, supports and relates its work in particular to the efforts of the United Nations to preserve our planet Earth and make possible a healthy life in the meaning of the comprehensive Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) on the UN 2030 Agenda. 

In this spirit, the Virchow Prize, established and supported by the Virchow Foundation, recognises innovations of outstanding significance having a positive and sustainable impact on the broad field of global health. [Excerpt from the Preamble of the Foundation Statutes]

The purpose of the Foundation shall be realised in particular through the following measures:

  • Awarding the Virchow Prize accompanied by expedient public relations work.
  • Promotion of research projects and the application of research results.
  • The networking of actors, groups of actors and sectors (civil society, NGOs, science, politics, business) relating to global health and public health at the national and international levels. Symposiums and conferences can be supported for this purpose.

    For the activities beyond the Virchow Prize, the Virchow Foundation in close partnership with the World Health Summit (WHS) will use the WHS as the primary platform.

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