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

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 Update
Fellows in Focus: November and December 2025
Updates concerning Sciana Fellows in November and December 2025
Dec 23, 2025
Health Update
Creating space for change through systems leadership
Cohorts 6 and 7 meet in Salzburg to exchange learning, strengthen bonds, and advance their Sciana Challenges 
Dec 23, 2025
Health Update
Sciana Lecture | Lothar H. Wieler - Leadership lessons in the response to COVID
Dec 22, 2025
Health Feature
Protecting Health and Dignity: Microinsurance as a Tool for Women’s Climate Resilience
How an innovative insurance model helps India’s informal women workers withstand the growing impacts of climate change
Dec 18, 2025
Health Feature
Trust as Infrastructure: Community-Led Pathways to Health Information
Lessons from Nigeria and South Africa on listening, co-creation, and community-driven health advocacy
Dec 11, 2025
Health Feature
Roots and Resilience: How Mangrove Ecosystems Strengthen Financial Stability
An innovative insurance model is turning mangrove restoration into a source of economic opportunity and long-term community resilience
Dec 05, 2025
Health Feature
Young Voices Shaping the Future of Insurance
Emerging leaders are calling for an insurance sector that looks beyond short-term profits and builds systems of protection rooted in inclusion and long-term resilience
Nov 24, 2025
Health Update
Building accessible pathways and rethinking mental health systems
Sciana Fellow Kai Lanz shares his journey of building mental health services, what systems leadership means in times of crisis, and why early intervention is key to sustainable change
Nov 04, 2025
Health Update
Fellows in Focus: October 2025
Updates concerning Sciana Fellows in October 2025
Nov 03, 2025

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.


Support Our Work

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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