Global youth for health justice

100 Million Youth Voices
for Global Health

A global movement mobilizing 100 million young people to shape health policy, drive community action, and demand a world where every youth can live in health, dignity, and safety.

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Age focus: 12–35 years Scope: Global • every region, every voice Themes: equity • gender justice • climate • mental health

About the 100 Million Youth Voices Campaign

A coordinated global platform to mobilize, connect, and equip young people to influence the systems that shape their health and futures.

Campaign overview

Today’s generation of young people is navigating overlapping crises: mental health and substance use challenges, gender-based violence, climate impacts, commercial health harms, and inequitable systems. At the same time, youth are driving creativity, advocacy, and digital mobilization — but their efforts are often fragmented, underfunded, and disconnected from global decision-making.

100 Million Youth Voices for Global Health exists to change that. It is a global movement that brings youth together across countries, languages, and identities to build collective power, shape policy, and co-create solutions for health equity and justice.

Vision

A world where every young person can live in health, dignity, and safety — and where youth are recognized as co-architects and partners of global health systems, with meaningful and sustained participation.

Mission

To mobilize 100 million youth to tell their stories, advocate for equitable, inclusive, and evidence-based global health policies through collective action, leadership development, and strategic partnerships.

Aims and strategic objectives

The overall goal is to strengthen youth power in global health by amplifying voices, influencing systems, and accelerating policy change that advances equity, gender justice, climate resilience, and community-driven health solutions.

Youth mobilization and engagement

  • Build a global network of 100 million youth advocates.
  • Establish Youth Action Hubs in schools, universities, and communities.
  • Launch continent-wide digital campaigns that reach underrepresented youth.

Policy and systems influence

  • Shape unified youth-led policy agendas for WHO, UNICEF, AU, UNFPA, and beyond.
  • Engage in global processes like WHA, UNGA, COP, G20 and Summit of the Future.
  • Secure youth seats in governance and decision-making platforms.

Leadership and capacity-building

  • Train at least 10,000 youth leaders annually in advocacy and global health literacy.
  • Establish regional Youth Health Leadership Academies.

Community impact and action

  • Support youth-led projects in mental health, menstrual health, substance use prevention, climate and health, food and nutrition, and ending violence against women and girls.
  • Provide micro-grants, mentorship, and storytelling support.

Messages from Youth Volunteers

The movement is built on real stories and lived experience. Here are some of the voices shaping 100 Million Youth Voices for Global Health.

Volunteer message • Africa

“We are not just beneficiaries. We are co-creators of solutions.”

“In my community, young people lead mental health circles, climate campaigns, and peer education — but our work rarely reaches the spaces where funding and policies are decided. This campaign tells the world that our voices, data, and stories are part of the evidence, not an afterthought.”

Volunteer message • Asia-Pacific

“We want to speak in our own languages, from our own realities.”

“100 Million Youth Voices means I don’t have to translate my experience to fit someone else’s agenda. It is a space where Indigenous, migrant, and marginalized youth can speak from where we stand — and still be heard.”

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Sign Up as a Youth Volunteer

Join the movement. Use the form below to sign up as a youth volunteer and be part of 100 Million Youth Voices for Global Health.

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Contact & Partnerships

For collaboration, funding, media, or partnership inquiries, use the form below to reach the Centre for Public Health team coordinating 100 Million Youth Voices for Global Health.

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Contact details

Campaign:
100 Million Youth Voices for Global Health

Host organization:
Center for Public Health Initiative (CPHI)

Email (example):
youthvoices@centerforpublichealthinitiative.org

Focus areas:
Youth leadership, health equity, mental health, substance use prevention, climate & health, gender justice, Indigenous and marginalized youth.

Partnerships:
Open to collaboration with youth movements, civil society, governments, universities, global agencies, philanthropic partners, and tech companies.