Overview

Honouring lifetime achievements towards health for all. The Virchow Prize for Global Health recognizes and celebrates innovations with significant impact on the broad health challenges we face as a global community, while honouring the United Nations 2030 Sustainable Development Goals. Prominent individuals and organisations around the world have been campaigning for some time to establish a major international prize of the highest prestige that awards special merits and outstanding achievements in the broad field of global health. The Virchow Prize for Global Health provides a highly respected, international platform to raise awareness on global health issues, especially among the general public. Moreover, the Virchow Prize for Global Health aims to incentivise and spur future generations of great minds in their commitment to global health. Anyone with a desire to improve the health of the world’s population, whether through academic, political, social or economic/industrial innovation, should be able to aspire to such a prestigious award. The Virchow Prize for Global Health honours and celebrates contributions with great significance towards achieving sustainable impact on the global health challenges we face today. The Covid-19 pandemic brought home to everyone around the world, as never before, how important health is in each facet of a functioning society. Health is the most important value for each individual, spanning across societies and cultures in every region of the world.