How Can We Promote a Future of Healthy Living and Well-Being for All?

Gathering of People Inside the Schloss Leopoldskron

Our Programs

Our programs equip leaders with the strategies and connections to effectively integrate health, equity and well-being into all policies.


Our Focus and Aims

Our programs are a leading forum for exchanging strategies tackling the toughest challenges to health, equity, and well-being now and in the future. ​

Health equity and community health; systems leadership, harnessing AI, digitalization, and innovation; gender equity and care economy; and health and the environment are among the pressing global transformation areas we seek to facilitate progress in. 

We seek to equip committed advocates with supportive networks, promising practices, strategies from around the world, and seed cross-boundary collaborations to accelerate progress.

We work with leading partners to co-develop programs that meet a range of health agendas and intended outcomes.

Global Learning

Capturing global best practices and bringing the learning back to the partner's country.

Network Building and Collaboration

Fostering new cross-boundary and cross-health advocacy collaborations.

Leadership Development

Fostering leadership for whole systems change.

Global Movement Building

Taking advocacy work to new contexts and regions.

Consenus Building

Generating consensus on principles, priorities, and guidance.

Innovation Development and Scaling

Supporting innovators and researchers from ideas to impact.



Latest Insights

Health Feature
Designing care around communities for equitable outcomes
Sciana Fellow Bola Owolabi on systems leadership, addressing health inequalities, and building alliances for an interconnected health ecosystem
Jun 29, 2026
Health Update
Art as a Human Need: Why Evidence Matters
Reflections and future perspectives on research in arts for the mental health of children and adolescents
Jun 25, 2026
Health Feature
Navigating the Noise: How the Digital Information Environment Shapes Our Health
Salzburg Global Fellow Dr. Becky White on infodemics, digital polarization, and why the information environment must be recognized as a determinant of health
May 26, 2026
Health Update
Rebuilding trust as a foundation for population health
Sciana Fellow Minal Bakhai on why systems leadership for population health must develop “new ways of working, new relationships, and new partnerships to create something new”
May 11, 2026
Health Feature
How Social Listening in Public Health is Turning Community Voices into Action
Salzburg Global Fellow Dr. Kemisola Agbaoye on utilizing AI and community input to identify and meet public health needs in Nigeria
May 04, 2026
Health Update
Leading with authenticity, trust, and endurance
Sciana Fellow Marek Rydzewski reflects on his leadership development and Sciana experience
Apr 21, 2026
Health Feature
Rethinking Our Information Diet
Salzburg Global Fellow Mario Vasilescu on why treating what we read like what we eat, with "info-trition" and mental fitness trackers, could be key to saving our focus and health
Apr 21, 2026
Health Feature
Whose Knowledge Governs?: Community Power and Health Equity
How people-centered models in Brazil and South Africa are involving communities
Apr 20, 2026
Health Update
Call for Applications: Cohort 9
The Network’s next cohort will focus on “Systems Leadership for Health in a Digital Age”  
Apr 15, 2026

Our Methodology

Our methodology is dynamic and core to all programs. There are three core design principles.

We hold focus-group-like discussions throughout the creative process with program partners. From concept creation through the convening sessions.  ​

This helps leverage our collective strengths to achieve the session goals. It also enables us to develop a program tailored to the needs of partners and Salzburg Global Fellows.

Salzburg Global programs often involve Salzburg Global Fellows in the final development of the program agenda, seeking their feedback, interest, and involvement. ​

Sessions are highly interactive and often co-led by Fellows, whether they are online or at Schloss Leopoldskron in Salzburg. ​

This helps foster bonds with the Fellows and ensures that our sessions leverage their strengths and meet their needs.

​Our session design facilitates the exchange of key forms of knowledge beyond information, including experiences, ideas, and foresight. 

We run sessions that elicit sense-making and innovative thinking – while also offering exercises to help cross-boundary groups to safely experiment with new collaborations. ​

​Offering a safe and respectful environment and fostering a “speak up” culture to support individual agency are also critical goals of our session design.


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As a nonprofit organization, we rely on your generosity and support to gather open-minded leaders for breakthrough conversations.

Donations, no matter the size, help us create space for dialogue that overcomes barriers and opens up a world of better possibilities.

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