Philips Foundation is a registered charity in the Netherlands working to reduce healthcare inequality by improving access to quality healthcare for disadvantaged and underserved communities. Its mission is to help more people receive better healthcare, wherever they live, with an ambition to enable access for 100 million people a year by 2030. The foundation draws on Philips’ expertise, innovative products and solutions, and collaborates with partners around the world to develop and expand practical healthcare initiatives.

Through meaningful innovation, strategic partnerships and catalytic funding, it supports promising ideas that can become scalable solutions. Its work includes projects in maternal and child care, antenatal care in fragile environments, and technology to empower community health workers, with initiatives spanning regions such as the Middle East and Africa. Philips Foundation also shares news, project information and knowledge, and publishes reports on its impact.

Its 2024 annual report highlights 22 ongoing and new initiatives with NGOs, governments, universities and social enterprises; together, the foundation and its partners helped unlock access to quality medical services for more than 46. 5 million people in underserved communities that year