The Engine for Global Health Innovation
A springboard where ideas grow locally and scale globally. A platform that gives you the tools to manage your own health and wellbeing.
Recognition
Institutional trust, worldwide
World Health Innovation Summit leadership has advised global institutions and co-founded the Global Social Prescribing Alliance (GSPA), which the UK Secretary of State for Health and Social Care launched in 2021 shaping a prevention-first health policy across 20+ countries.
- 30+
- Countries with WHIS activity
- £36:£1
- Independent SROI of community reinvestment
- 20m+
- People engaged worldwide since 2015
- Peer-reviewed
- Oxford UP, Routledge, Emerald & BMJ
Where do you fit in?
WHIS works across sectors. Pick your starting point and we'll show you the most relevant programmes, events, and resources.
Health innovation for organisations
Bring WHIS programmes into your workforce, sector, or city. Strategic advisory, summits, and prevention-first health systems.
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Communities, families, and life stages
Join the WHIS Health & Wellbeing App pilot, find a chapter near you, and learn how social prescribing can change lives.
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Policy, investment, and innovation
Co-create with us — partnerships, sponsorship, ventures, and funding opportunities for health innovators worldwide.
Explore →How we deliver impact
Programmes, alliance, convening, and local chapters — how WHIS moves prevention from idea to practice.
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Programmes
WHISKids, WHISatWork, WHISSeniors, WHISGreen, Hiya, and WHISTech — plus the WHIS Health & Wellbeing App.
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Global Social Prescribing Alliance (GSPA)
Advancing person-centred, community-based care worldwide through social prescribing.
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Events & Summits
Global Social Prescribing Alliance (GSPA) Summit, World Health Innovation Day, city summits, webinars, and the Innovators Show.
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Global chapters
Active in 30+ countries — UK, USA, Italy, India, Ireland, Argentina, Portugal and more.
Featured event
World Health Innovation Summit Venice 2027
The world's leading health investment forum — convening sovereign wealth funds, institutional investors, global policymakers, and clinical leaders at the Venice Lido.
June 2027
World Health Innovation Summit Venice 2027
The world's leading health investment forum — convening sovereign wealth funds, institutional investors, global policymakers, and clinical leaders at the Venice Lido.
Also coming up
- Global Social Prescribing Alliance (GSPA) Special Interest Group
13 November 2026 · Mental Health & Research · 1–2pm BST Details → - Global Social Prescribing Impact Awards
Nominate changemakers — winners announced at the 2027 Summit. Details → - Social Prescribing Day 2027
27 March 2027 · Worldwide — community-led Details → - Global Social Prescribing Summit 2027
9 July 2027 · Online Details →
Community moments
People, places, and the WHIS network
Summits, chapters, and partnerships worldwide — the faces behind the work.
“An international exchange of ideas, enthusiasm, best practice and shared values, right on our own doorstep.”
Latest news
6 Nov 2026
The World Health Service DAF: Connecting Philanthropic Ambition with Global Health Prevention
The World Health Service DAF: Connecting Philanthropic Ambition with Global Health Prevention We build connections to power proactive, preventative health around the world. Connecting philanthropic ambition and impact investment with the World Health Service (WHS) mission—to solve urgent health priorities, tackle chronic disease, and scale community-led innovation through blended capital and Donor-Advised Funds (DAFs). Powered by collaboration. We co-create donor and investment models aligned with your vision and impact goals, offering clarity of vision, robust governance, and audited economic and social returns. Working with the WHS DAF connects your business, family office, foundation, or impact fund with the people and projects transforming healthcare from reactive "sick care" to sustainable prevention. “By investing in health systems through the WHS DAF, we generate not only returns but long-term resilience for people and planet.” Gareth Presch, CEO, World Health Innovation Summit
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5 Nov 2026
Redefining Global Development: Insights from the G7 Évian Progress Report & The Path to WHIS Venice 2027
Redefining Global Development: Insights from the G7 Évian Progress Report & The Path to WHIS Venice 2027 A New Era of Mutually Beneficial Partnerships The release of the G7 Évian Progress Report 2026 marks a pivotal evolution in global development cooperation. Moving away from traditional donor-recipient dynamics, the international community is embracing a model centered on mutually beneficial partnerships, national sovereignty, and economic resilience. With an annual global financing gap estimated at up to USD 6.4 trillion by 2030, Official Development Assistance (ODA) alone cannot meet growing infrastructure, climate, and human development needs. The 2026 report demonstrates how public finance is increasingly being used as a strategic catalyst to mobilize private capital and support sustainable local growth.
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5 Nov 2026
Welcoming Farida El Hefni as WHIS Global Ambassador
We are thrilled to announce that Farida El Hefni has joined the World Health Innovation Summit (WHIS) as a Global Ambassador. Farida brings a wealth of experience spanning clinical practice, pharmaceutical research, global health policy, and youth advocacy. "I am truly honoured to join WHIS as a Global Ambassador, advocating for disease prevention and precision health globally, while ensuring young people have a meaningful seat at the tables where global health policies are shaped into action alongside government leaders, healthcare professionals, civil servants, investors, and many more." — Farida El Hefni
Watch
The launch of the Global Social Prescribing Alliance
In 2021 the UK Secretary of State for Health and Social Care joined WHIS and its partners to launch the Global Social Prescribing Alliance — a platform for prevention-first, person-centred healthcare worldwide.
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Donate today and be part of the movement shaping the future. Every contribution funds our chapters, programmes, and the WHIS Health & Wellbeing App pilot.