Boehringer Ingelheim and Ashoka to Launch 'Making More Health' Initiative

The initiative will promote healthy individuals, families and communities by identifying and supporting the most promising solutions to challenge health problems.

Boehringer Ingelheim and Ashoka will launch a three-year global initiative to improve health in communities around the world.The "Making More Health" initiative will promote healthy individuals, families and communities by identifying and supporting the most promising solutions to challenge health problems.

The partnership includes support for a series of programs aimed at identifying innovative health solutions, including the election of 50 leading social entrepreneurs (elected as "Ashoka Fellows") whose ideas are driving cutting-edge systemic solutions in the field of health. In addition, two web-based changemakers competitions will open an invitation to the public to submit new ideas on how to improve health in underserved communities. "Making More Health" will also focus on the next generation of changemakers through a youth venture program to engage young people in designing health s