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BERLIN, April 4, 2022 /PRNewswire=KYODO JBN/ --

Highly prestigious award endowed with Euro 500,000 to uphold the United Nations

2030 Agenda

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The nomination phase of the newly established Virchow Prize for Global Health

has begun. This major international award honours outstanding achievements

towards addressing today's complex health challenges. The Prize is awarded

annually in Berlin, with the inaugural ceremony held 15 October 2022, on the

eve of the World Health Summit.

The Virchow Prize for Global Health aims to incentivize and spur great minds in

their commitment to global health. Laureates will be awarded an endowment of

Euro 500,000 for their longstanding contributions towards improving health and

well-being for all.

Eligible are individuals, organisations, or institutions who have made

significant contributions towards strengthening health worldwide – whether

through long-standing scientific, academic, political, humanitarian, social,

research or economic engagement, in line with the United Nations 2030 Agenda

Sustainable Development Goals.

Each year, the official announcement of the Virchow Prize for Global Health

laureates is released on 13 October, the birthday of Rudolf Virchow. Virchow

united in one person the interdisciplinary and humanistic concept of

well-being, while serving as a role model in overcoming complexity and bridging

challenges to improve health at a global scale.

By establishing and granting the Virchow Prize for Global Health, the Virchow

Foundation for Global Health strives to raise awareness of current global

health issues and to award achievements which significantly improve the impact

on the broad health challenges we face today. The Foundation was established

with support of the German National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina and

Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities, alongside civil society

and leading experts within global health.

Details on nomination process: https://virchowprize.org/nominations/

Contact:

Virchow Foundation for Global Health

c/o Berlin-Brandenburgische Akademie der Wissenschaften

Jagerstr. 22/23 , DE-10117 Berlin, Germany

press@virchow.foundation

Source: Virchow Foundation for Global Health