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Virchow Prize for Global Health Laureates

WEBto announce today that. the 2022 Virchow Prize for Global Health is bestowed upon. JOHN N. NKENGASONG. for his outstanding and significant lifetime contributions towards strengthening global health. John Nkengasong was born in Cameroon and started his impeccable and impressive academic career at the University of Yaoundé studying …

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Nomination phase for the 2024 Virchow Prize for Global Health …

WEBThe non-profit Virchow Foundation for Global Health opens the nomination phase for the 2024 Virchow Prize for Global Health. Qualified nominators are invited to submit

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Award Ceremony 2022

WEBRudolf Virchow would have been proud of Kofi Annan and addressing today’s challenges in global health would require the philosophical and visionary thinking of Rudolf Virchow who was a physician, biologist, anthropologist, politician, and writer, who said that “medicine is a social science, and politics is nothing but medicine on a grand

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Virchow Prize for Global Health Laureates

WEBOn behalf of the Virchow Foundation for Global Health and the Virchow Prize Committee it is my great privilege to announce that the 2023 Virchow Prize for Global Health is bestowed upon. ROSE GANA FOMBAN LEKE. for her distinctive and exceptional lifetime achievements in strengthening global health, pioneering infectious disease research …

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Virchow Foundation for Global Health announces the launch of its …

WEBThe non-profit Virchow Foundation for Global Health was launched on 13 October 2021, Rudolf Virchow’s 200th birthday, with a vision to raise awareness of global health issues among the general public, while contributing to sustainable and universal improvement of health outcomes through the fulfilment of the prestigious Virchow Prize for

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World Health Summit 2024

WEBOctober 13, 2024 | 08:00 - October 15, 2024 | 18:00. The World Health Summit is a unique international strategic forum for global health. Held annually in Berlin, it brings together stakeholders from politics, science, the private sector, and civil society from around the world to set the agenda for a healthier future by inspiring innovative

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Virchow Foundation

WEBThe 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 for Global Health, established and

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NEWS & PRESS RELEASES

WEBBerlin, October 6, 2022 – The Virchow Foundation for Global Health is proudly announcing that Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, Director-General of the World Health Organization, will open the 2022 Virchow Prize for Global Health Award Ceremony, joining speakers Governing Mayor of Berlin, Franziska Giffey, and French Ambassador for Global Health …

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77th World Health Assembly (WHA)

WEBThe World Health Assembly (WHA) is the main decision-making body of the World Health Organization (WHO) and is comprised of 194 Member States. Every year, generally in May, delegates from all Member States come together to agree on the Organization’s priorities and policies. At the Health Assembly, country delegates make decisions on health

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State Office for Health and Social Affairs and Virchow Foundation

WEBBerlin, November 20, 2023 – The State Office for Health and Social Affairs (LAGeSo) and the Virchow Foundation for Global Health sign a partnership agreement to increase cooperation in the field of health promotion in Berlin and to further strengthen the capital as an international hub for health innovation.. The Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) …

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Virchow Prize for Global Health Nominations

WEBVirchow Prize Committee members are being nominated and elected by the Virchow Foundation for Global Health Council. The committee is chaired by the President of the Foundation. The nomination phase for the first Virchow Prize for Global Health begins on April 1, 2022 and ends on June 30, 2022.

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Meet Honourable Michel Sidibé, Co-Chair of the Council

WEBLong-term economic development has been constantly undermined by poor health systems and a high level of disease. Just 2% of the world’s doctors live in Sub-Saharan Africa. And many of the countries in the continent have just one doctor for up to 40,000 people, and five or fewer intensive care beds per 100,000 people.

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Meet Anders Nordström, Member of the Council

WEBA trained physician at the Karolinska Institutet in the field of national and international health policy, planning and strategic leadership, Anders Nordström holds the position of Ambassador for Global Health at the Swedish Ministry for Foreign Affairs since September 2010. Dr Nordström served as Assistant Director-General and acting Director-General …

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Board of Trustees

WEBIt is furthermore responsible for the appointment of the Foundation’s Council, the appointment & supervision of the Foundation’s Executive Board and the formation of the Virchow Prize Committee. Members of the Board of Trustees also advise on how the work of the Foundation and the Virchow Prize for Global Health can contribute to the

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