Recently, Professor Wang Huali of Peking University Sixth Hospital (PKUSH) received an official letter from the World Health Organization (WHO) and was awarded the 2025 WHO Prize for the Promotion of Healthy Ageing. She was also invited to attend the award ceremony to be held in Geneva, Switzerland in May 2025.

　　The Prize is designed to award individuals, institutions or non-governmental organizations that have made outstanding contributions to the health care and health promotion for older people and is recommended by WHO member countries for the selection of candidates or units nationwide. Selected by the National Health Commission, Professor Wang Huali was recommended as a Chinese individual to participate in the award in 2024. As decided by the Executive Board of WHO at its 156th session, she was the first individual in China to receive this prize. Besides, the National Geriatrics Center of China, the Chronic Disease Center of China Center for Disease Control and Prevention, and the Chinese Geriatrics Society have once been awarded this prize as recommended institutions.

　　Under the advocacy of Professor Wang Huali, the Beijing Medical Award Foundation and PKUSH jointly launched a public welfare project “Supporting and Caring for Caregivers with Dementia” (SUCCEED) in 2024. Professor Wang Huali has decided to donate the prize money to the SUCCEED project to award the “model caregivers of the light of memory”, thus encouraging family caregivers not only to take good care of their sick relatives, but also to take the initiative to care for their own mental health, prevent cognitive decline, actively participate in social advocacy, use their own experiences and stories to set an example for the society, and encourage more people to partake in the national campaign of dementia prevention and control.

　　Written by: Lang Lang

　　Edited by: Liu Xin

　　Source: PKUSH