To kick off an exciting few days for the Virchow Prize 2025 Laureates, Quarraisha Abdool Karim and Zulfiqar A. Bhutta, the Virchow Prize Lecture will be organised in their honour. Kindly hosted with our esteemed partner ESMT Berlin, with their vast expertise and under the spotlight of their work in advancing maternal, newborn and child health equity, honoured with the Virchow Prize 2025, the laureates’ lectures will explore the critical and timely topic of approaches to safeguarding “Health for All” and the crucial interconnectedness of health with the different levels of health systems and the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), highlighting the importance of integrated strategies to address complex global challenges towards our common goal of achieving SDG3 “Good Health and Well-Being”.